We live in an age that does not spend as much money as our ancestors did making things and spaces beautiful. I do not pretend to understand the economics involved, or why there should have been a shift, but the effort that went in to making the London Underground attractive is quite staggering. Now we just paint it over - it’s cheaper. Presumably, it always was.
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