Mark, yes, I sadly agree, but they have been crumbling all through the Soviet era, too. Doug On 4-Apr-09, at 12:21 PM, Mark Weiss wrote: > I was in Budapest for the first time last summer. The very small > gussied-up section of Buda and the tourist enclave of Pest were > severely at odds with the tumbledown condition of the rest of the > city, where whole neighborhoods of superb art nouveau and art deco > architecture appear to be crumbling away. Douglas Barbour [log in to unmask] http://www.ualberta.ca/~dbarbour/ Latest books: Continuations (with Sheila E Murphy) http://www.uap.ualberta.ca/UAP.asp?LID=41&bookID=664 Wednesdays' http://abovegroundpress.blogspot.com/2008/03/new-from-aboveground-press_10.html It's always night or we wouldn't need light. Thelonious Monk