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You can look back to the early days of tourism when gentlemen going on their "grand tour" often commissioned paintings of what they'd visited so they could show
by nitwit005 8y ago
You can look back to the early days of tourism when gentlemen going on their "grand tour" often commissioned paintings of what they'd visited so they could show off how cultured they were.
https://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/paintings/learn-about-art/paintings-in-depth/the-grand-tour https://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/paintings/learn-about-art...
- chrisco255 8y agoYeah I'm sure the very rich had that luxury back in the day... But nowadays anyone can do it.
- Piskvorrr 8y agoThat's the point! With the subpoint that it scales...badly. It's not like you can spin up 20 more instances of the historic city center when you get 20x the usual traffic. Result: cities literally divided against themselves, transformed into a tourist-factory-slash-amusement-park that nobody lives in, segregated from the actual living city. What, me bitter about my hometown being disneyfied? Nooooosir...
- chrisco255 8y agoBeing a 3rd generation Floridian...I can sympathize.