Unpopular opinion: Housing in the ideal socialist society of tomorrow will be closer to old Prague than to the modern high-rises surrounded by greenery that most leftists seem to like.
Completely agree. A lot of Soviet housing was very flawed and while modernism and brutalism can be neat, an entire city with only that architecture can be suffocating.
I tend to agree, since I think that we tend to fallaciously view the addition of technology/industrialism as a positive even when it doesn't appreciably improve living conditions, with the caveat that the ideal socialist city of tomorrow should probably be apportioned to the population density of the city in question. I wouldn't want to roll up to densely packed community and force them to spread out in order to chase some idealized version of an Eastern European city.
Unpopular opinion: Housing in the ideal socialist society of tomorrow will be closer to old Prague than to the modern high-rises surrounded by greenery that most leftists seem to like.
Completely agree. A lot of Soviet housing was very flawed and while modernism and brutalism can be neat, an entire city with only that architecture can be suffocating.
I'll only be happy when I can live in a building that looks like it belongs in Halo 1
Which is why I propose Modern High rises surrounded by greenery in art nouveau style.
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I tend to agree, since I think that we tend to fallaciously view the addition of technology/industrialism as a positive even when it doesn't appreciably improve living conditions, with the caveat that the ideal socialist city of tomorrow should probably be apportioned to the population density of the city in question. I wouldn't want to roll up to densely packed community and force them to spread out in order to chase some idealized version of an Eastern European city.
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it doesn't work everywhere (especially in more dense cities populous countries).
It can result in sprawling concrete jungles like this
In Beijing for instance, you can see older parts of the city being demolished and replaced with high density buildings