It's hard for me to understand what the author is exactly talking about without seeing more images.
Europe is, I suppose, not as enshittified so far, but it's a matter of time.
Most major older cities established a central core in an age where people had taste.
I could not finish it.
Although on the art front I'm looking forward to learning what storms lie in wait for the first publicly notable pro-Trump statue in the US. It'll be a real cultural discovery.