Of all the things I hope we don't get as Euro culture slowly assimilates us is Euro plumbing and building standards. You could argue that everything has been standing for years, but it has also been terrible for years. The Spanish live with a noise pollution that would drive the most northern Europeans crazy. The showers either work fantastically well or not at all, but the fittings are always in the wrong place. The sewers are suspect everywhere and if a hole can be left a year or two, another ten won't hurt.
Broken tiles stay broken and a bit of pavement can be missing for decades.
On the long journey between Sevilla and Jerez, one constantly saw new housing developments in the middle of nowhere with not a tree to moderate their starkness. All that space and all they can do is replicate the same overcrowding. Around it, in the fields lie broken beer bottles, abandoned farm machinery or industrial debris. New housing beside garbage dumps. The environment is not even a concept in modern Spain.