Fuck skyscrapers but this image is actually really nice.

Btw go check !urbanism

  • Infamousblt [any]
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    4 years ago

    This looks like the view from a few extremely expensive neighborhoods in Chicago. This view in NYC would be something like 4000 a month. People are so fucking stupid.

  • redthebaron [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    like i can think of places in rio that are just way more brazen this looks fine

    • RNAi [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      YES. The neighborhood this is photographed from seems really nice. Meanwhile if you take a train from Retiro in Buenos Aires you can shoot fancy buildings towering behind Villa Retiro (a "favela")

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        urban sprawl in latin america is one of the most dystopic thing like this image has a good street size with a consistent look on the building on the smaller building and also it is a historical capital like they can't just destroy everything to make a better city there are people historical sights like this dude is presenting a strong i like building but have no understanding of how a city is made because like as a rule of thumb if there is a rich neighbourhood in rio there is a close by favela that was occupied at the same time because those fucking dumbasses in their caged communities needed people to work on that and these economic interests reflect themselves on the city

        • hamouy [he/him]
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          4 years ago

          I get the sentiment, but please, use some commas.

          • redthebaron [he/him]
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            4 years ago

            like that would demand me to pay attention to the english language, which i am against

            • hamouy [he/him]
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              4 years ago

              Understandable, haben sie einen guten Tag

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          4 years ago

          Jesse what the fuck are you talking about?

          • redthebaron [he/him]
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            4 years ago

            main point cities are complicated and urban sprawl caused by capitalism is really bad i am like 2 day sleep deprived for a presentation in a hour so i am not doing so hot on the communication stuff

    • Ho_Chi_Chungus [she/her]
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      4 years ago

      Not going to lie, not seeing advertisements everywhere is faintly unnerving. I know that it's a GOOD thing that there aren't advertisements everywhere in Pyongyang, but being so used to everywhere in urban areas trying to sell me something and then taking all of that away puts the city in an uncanny valley to me

  • DirtbagVegan [he/him]
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    What the fuck are they on about? It looks like basically any other city? The worst part of this is that no road needs that many lanes and there's no visible public transit. (I am aware Moscow has a famously great metro.)

    • comi [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      There is a bus on this picture I think. Also there is a railway station directly beneath thick boy tower on the left :) but it is a monstrosity still:(

  • opposide [none/use name]
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    4 years ago

    It literally costs $3000 a month to live in a one bedroom apartment in queens with a view of manhattan like this

  • WhatDoYouMeanPodcast [comrade/them]
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    4 years ago

    Maybe not the place, but I don't think they look aesthetic. I wouldn't say evil, but they look... modern. They remind me if neoliberalism. They remind me of the anxiety I have driving down city streets. It's not the hill I would die on, but they're not my cup of tea.

    This is what they mean by evil buildings, right? Surely there's no other motivation to call it evil, right?

    • RNAi [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      Yes, indeed, those building ARE evil, but a lot of russia-brainworms comments said "oh look how evil those russians are, having those big stalinists appartments all run down while the oligarchs live in the menacing tall buildings".

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      Well, at a city level, high density areas (in opposition to urban sprawl) is actually good, because you can have public transit easier so the cost in oil, roads, etc of moving the people in those cities is low. This can be acchieved even with lots of public green spaces, and also having neighborhoods of (small footprint) unifamiliar homes with gardens/yards.

      But at whole geographical region, I'm not sure if having the 99.9% of population in one city and then nothing is good. If the big desolated areas are as "easier to live in" as the big city, then probably is better to have a lot of small cities equally distanced and then some bigger ones; but it depends on a shitton of things some of which you can't desing that easily. Go check !urbanism

      Say the whole state is "pure cornfield" then it's similar to some places I have been to where you have ~15k population towns separated ~25 km each, with lots of industries and shit related to agriculture, and every 100 km you have a bigger ~70k pop city. You can be a farmer and live comfly in the small city; or at least have your elder relatives living there, near pharmacies, the hospital and at a walkable distance of their old friends and social clubs. If you need some big unusual thing, say a rare medical treatment or expensive tool/machinery/whatever, you can take the train or bus to the big city where that thing is. The same goes if you just wanna go out in a bigger city because they have more variety of restaurants/bars/nightclubs/whatever. If your children decide to go to college, they can move to the big city and be at home any weekend they want cheaply because of trains/buses. Also, in those towns the children of the richest fucker go to the same school than the poorest of fellas. Homelessness is maybe one person with a hard story that ends up being helped somehow, because otherwise is a fucking scandal to have a person without roof. Buying a patch of land to build your own house is easy. And if you want you can go to a nearby homestead to buy produce.

      Of course, ports and rivers usually concentrates a lot of economic activity because the shit gets exported and imported through there. So a lot of industries that depends of imported raw materials/parts are gonna choose to set themselves near the ports.

    • Kereru [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      Hard agree. Not enough multi-modal transport planning, smdh

  • Blurst_Of_Times [he/him,they/them]
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    The fuck are they talking about, "dystopian"? The buildings are in decent repair, the street is clean except for c*rs, and the humans all appear to be alive. Go visit Skid Row for an hour, god damn.

  • cresspacito [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    If there were more cranes and taller buildings strewn about, this could literally be a picture of London

  • Nagarjuna [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    Has the person who posted this ever been in a city before?