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An Ode to Urban Structures

Do you ever look at monstrous urban structures and wonder when and how they have come to exist?

Urban cityscapes have their own fabricated-grandeur—yet dystopian sense of beauty. I can’t help but think about the grueling human physical labor and extensive architectural planning that must have taken place in order for us to perceive and utilize what we have today. 

Everything in nature can and might occur effortlessly, but anything that is manmade requires human labor to yield creation and human labor to maintain. Everything created by man has costs and sometimes irreversible consequences. Please don’t forget to take that into consideration. Enjoy what the city has to offer, but please don’t take the everyday privileges we have in this modern world for granted. 

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