The pro-MAC members of Town Council tell you we are going to get some beautiful urban architecture for Maple. Revitalize the downtown. And all that.
But the buildings we’re actually getting are “stumpies”. No doubt, the Town is going to assure us that our stumpies will look better than the neighbor’s stumpies. But the fact is, they are still stumpies.
This Bloomberg Business Week article, “Why America’s New Apartment Buildings All Look the Same,” by Justin Fox, introduced me to the whys and wherefores of stumpies. Continue reading Stumpies, 2/20/2019