Fuck skyscrapers but this image is actually really nice.
Btw go check !urbanism
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.
lol i was just about to comment that i have tons of pics exactly like this of Milwaukee
like i can think of places in rio that are just way more brazen this looks fine
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")
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
like that would demand me to pay attention to the english language, which i am against
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
how's the sanitation project for the villa going? I haven't been for a while
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
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.)
Yeah this looks like a pretty nice area, but is Moscow and Russia = BAD
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:(
It literally costs $3000 a month to live in a one bedroom apartment in queens with a view of manhattan like this
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?
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".
That whole sub is just buildings in China in Russia lol. Not one photo of the school of the anericas or a US prison
It's a special business district. I visited it irl and it's literally a handful of skyscrapers basically in the middle of nowhere lol
Lol have these people ever been to Illinois? You basically got Chi-town, urban/suburban hell as far as they eye can see in every direction (for like ~40 miles,) and then the desolate corn wastes until you hit a border.
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.
Hard agree, and I'm a fan of Urbanism. I just think it's silly that Westerners make points like "Lol dystopian Russian hellscape" and then live in places like this.
I've attempted navigating that hellhole in rush hour traffic while high as fuck, -420/10 do not recommend.
My absolute favorites are when I have to take lower wacker because of roadwork and then my GPS shuts down because I'm underground in maintenance tunnels. :)
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.
If there were more cranes and taller buildings strewn about, this could literally be a picture of London
