Quote Originally Posted by compn View Post
be happy the olympics never hit here. have you seen what happened to the previous cities? build a bunch of multi-million dollar stadiums and arenas for a one week event, then its all gone and empty until they demolish it.
I'm with you on that. While we're gotten smarter as a nation about urban renewal and the like, this was prime time for the "demolish everything old and replace it with brutalist Stalin-esque monstrosities" movement. I think we would be left with a lot of ugly junk instead of near-downtown neighborhoods.