In “historically accurate” movies/period pieces or drawings, paintings, or pictures of the same time – say a few hundred years ago (picture NYC or London in 1820), the streets and river shorelines, etc. are portrayed as dirty, unclean, filthy, messy, (insert your own adjective here). What led to the change for cleaner streets/public places – and why does it appear as if we are reverting to our former messy ways?
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Because we recognized public sanitation was important for disease control, quality of life, property prices, crime rates, etc. There was simply less regulation across the board in nearly every aspect of society.
I have no idea what you mean by “reverting”. Those regulations and infrastructural programs are still present. This largely seems anecdotal rather than demonstrative of reality.
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