You bring up a good point here. No matter what it is, there is a need for maintenance of that thing. Bridges need painting, streets need repaving, ballparks ne

You bring up a good point here. No matter what it is, there is a need for maintenance of that thing. Bridges need painting, streets need repaving, ballparks need sweeping. People are like this too. We all need sleep, the bathroom, food, etc. Yet with people we don't think of them during their maintenance periods. I think this is because we all do this during a certain period of the day, leaving the other parts of the day to enjoy our non-self-maintenance work with each other. Why can't we do this for cities too? I know it would be difficult. But declaring some sort of jubilee from maintenance would be pretty cool. Just for 1 month every 10 years or so, no more road construction, or bridge painting, or sheds on the sidewalk. Get the city to enforce it, make the fine big, coordinate it so that everything is clean and tidy, just for 30 days every decade or something. Make it a celebration, a party, a big time for tourists to come in and photograph everything. Like a height marker for a child on the door-frame. A pause, 'Look in the mirror, take it in, breathe, it won't last long, savor this moment'.