Having said all this, however, there are times when the sight of construction out the window might be cause for celebration.
The sight of a construction crane looming on the horizon has become ubiquitous in most large cities across India – and may become even more so in the near future.
But there are also plenty of potential pitfalls when buying essentially sight unseen, including construction delays, rising interest rates, a smaller apartment than advertised and a different view than you had imagined when looking at the blueprints.
They'd grown accustomed to the sight of giant construction projects, and to old provincial villages acquiring aureoles of sprawl, but this appeared to be an urban neighborhood in the middle of nowhere — a touch of Dubai on the plains of Don Quixote.
They'd grown accustomed to the sight of giant construction projects, and to old provincial villages acquiring aureoles of sprawl, but this appeared to be an urban neighborhood in the middle of nowhere a touch of Dubai on the plains of Don Quixote.
In the visual, flashes of piercing light interrupt usually mundane life scenes like a grocery store, laundromat, and construction sight, turning the various settings into a strange and unsettling disco.
With authorities bickering, with no high-rise in sight, and with construction and reconstruction only planned for the homeowners, 13 months later, Haiti's poorest earthquake victims are left exactly where they were on Jan . 13 , 2010 in tents and under tarps, living in subhuman conditions, under constant threat of eviction, facing a depleted housing stock with no savings.
There was no other construction in sight.
The sight of a stalled construction project or half-empty development touches off, even in the most disinterested passerby, a kind of queasy delectation.
Patrick Duggan, Nassau's deputy county executive for economic development, said last Monday $1.7 million was in sight to finance the construction of a 10,000-square-foot training center here.
