Is there anything more depressing than letting people sleep on the streets?
That's Brezhnevite architecture, and the only problem with it is that they didn't build enough.
Aesthetic can come after the material needs of the people are sated
It's not just looks. High rises have a negative effect to social and psychological health.
Things looking gross has a negative effect on social and psychological health generally but I'd prefer that over being homeless
That's a false dichotomy. High rises aren't even materially efficient. All that weight requires more reinforcing material.
The Vienna socialist housing projects are decent examples. Mostly mid-rises and their one high-rise isn't a spartan, drab eyesore.
It's not a trade-off, it's just shitty thoughtless design.
Oh? I'm no civil engineer so I can't argue against that lol. I always assumed high rise housing was primarily space and material efficient and that was the reason for their construction.
Yes, and also I think there are even better looking mid-rise Khrushchevka housing projects.
This "soulless highrise towers" meme is fraught toxic reactionary propaganda. I feel like I got little caught up and heated there.
they have totally fair complaints
we can round up the people who complain about this and put them in laogai and give their newly vacated non-brutalist house to the nearest unhoused person
Hold my beer 
