The dominant feature of the townscape is coming to be blank wall. They have a message. They are a declaration of distrust of the city and its streets and the undesirables who might be on them… The one good thing that can be said of them is that they are so awful anything else looks good by contrast. The best thing to do with blank walls is to do away with them,or, at the very least, to prevent their recurrence.
An owner who lines his frontage with a blank wall not only deadens his part of the street her breaks the continuity that is so vital for the rest of the street.