Progress?

In the nineteen seventies and eighties a lot of Edmonton's old buildings were torn down. The headline replacements were the huge corporate houses that one sees everywhere in the world. The more practical outcome was lots of parking lots in the spaces the mining companies haven't decided to build their corporate dog boxes on. This is one of the lots that surrounds my motel.

You see a lot of this in downtown Edmonton. To an outsider it creates a certain, very forgettable, aesthetic.