The city of Cracow in Poland banned billboards and other visual advertising quite aggressively about 2 years ago. Great outcomes. There are still some workarounds that companies do to put this s.. Now, when I visit another city when there's no such ban I cannot stand this visual garbage. This should be banned everywhere. On my visits to Warsaw, I have always been struck by the translucent advertising entirely covering the sides of new-ish office buildings.
Warsaw is the most visually depressing place I have ever been to. You should visit Bucharest. Or, I imagine, Detroit :-p. Nah Detroit has some beautiful architecture and really surprised me when I visited last year.
Also being on a river and next to a lake is a nice feature. I've been to plenty of more depressing places in the US. Ok, so that I don't disparage the good name of Detroit anymore, can you give me some names of those bad places? Breza 6 months ago root parent next [—]. Loughla 6 months ago root parent prev next [—].
Mostly any ex-steel based industry town in the rust belt except Detroit, only because it has been the focus of overt development to directly impact its image as a wasteland. Not sure what took its place.
Maybe Gary, Indiana? It's pretty crappy. In Bucharest in the last years the mayors fought back quite successfully against those all-covering billboards. However enjoy it while it lasts - we just had local elections and the old mafia got back in office, so I bet the billboards will be back very soon and cables hanging off every pole and expensive concrete wastelands and and and.
