De-Beautification Award Categories:
Monotony
This category highlights boring, unimaginative, and overly repetitive landscape design.
Overgrown
This category describes the effect of not considering the fourth dimension (time) in landscape design.
Destructive
This category covers a wide range of poor landscape practices that typically have unintended detrimental consequences.
Criminal/Unethical
This category features crimes committed on public lands or easements, or the result of criminal trespassing on private property.
Whoops
This category is more like honorable mentions due to it being about very common and/or transient mistakes.
Inconceivable
This category is like whoops times $100 plus.
Disclaimer: The De-Beautification Awards are not actually
awarded, but they are just a euphemism for eyesores and are being used here as a catch all term deserved for any illegitimate
or misapplied practices that tend to detract from the aesthetics of a landscaped or natural setting. The "De-Beautification Awards" are intended for educational purposes by giving anecdotal accounts of actual examples without specifically identifying any obvious or otherwise known offenders and/or innocent victims other than the general public.
