The linked article about USC's new "University Village" is pretty brutal too, calling it "Disneyland meets Hogwarts."[1] Disneyland is a good call metaphorical

The linked article about USC's new "University Village" is pretty brutal too, calling it "Disneyland meets Hogwarts."[1] Disneyland is a good call metaphorically whenever something's elaborately fake, though I'm also comparing all these projects to the Las Vegas strip. Lavish expenditure to recreate something already done elsewhere, producing the strange feeling that it's fake (a copy), yet it's real (somebody spent the money to make it happen). Is there no middle ground between uncompromisingly hostile modernism and ass-backwards retro-fakery? [1] http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/arts/la-et-cm-usc-village-review-20170820-story.html http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/arts/la-et-cm-usc-villa...