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Solar farms, power stations and water treatment plants can be attractions instead of eyesores

  • Written by Margaret Birney Vickery, Lecturer in Art History, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Infrastructure as art: Jacob van Ruisdael, 'Windmill at Wijk bij Duurstede,' c. 1670. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, CC BY-ND

Amid the economic and social fallout of the COVID-19 pandemic, many people see the process of restarting society as a chance to do things differently. Some organizations are calling for big investments in infrastructure, both to gen...

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