>this is what American cities looked like about 150 years ago
What the fuck happened.
>this is what American cities looked like about 150 years ago
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Urban planning and the grid system designed for cars really sucked the soul from American cities.
I’ve been to America many times and each time I’m saddened at how the cities and larger towns look. Cookie cutter streets and totally dull to look at.
>urban planning is le bad because having huge impractical plazas and pavilions that look like levels out of fucking Dark Souls is ~~~aesthetic~~~ and more important that ensuring people have functional spaces to fucking live
King of Brainlets
How are you calling people brainlets while talking about video games and how its important to have "functional spaces". What the fuck do you mean by functional space?
The problem is that US cities aren't even that, they're insanely car-centric. Some America cities can barely even be called that, they're more like enormous seas of highways and parking lots with the occasional building added in
>huge impractical plazas
Yep - definitely an American response.
>everything needs to be parking lots and giant roads and 16-lane highways and strip malls
The average American urbanite is like the battered wife of bad urban design
>parking lots and highways have anything to do with grid construction
Why are you so fucking dumb, anon?
That's American urban design, kiddo. Any new development will be at least 50% parking by area, and be completely untraversable except by car
grid systems aren't bad per se, they definitely have superior attributes in some respects like being easier to navigate and creating more uniformity (if that's what is required) but it seems like its use needs to be situational
grid systems don't work too well in mountainous regions for example
>grid systems don't work too well in mountainous regions for example
Wow, what a meaningless point. "2 dimensional geometry is a little too simplistic to work anywhere but on a flat plane"
Cities expand most consistently along flat planes precisely because its the easiest space in which for them to expand, and grid structures are the most efficient use of a flat plane. Grid cities predate the existence of cars and only turboretards think that model Ts have anything to do with the layout of American cities prior to post-WWII.
This is your strongest argument? That you can't comprehend basic english? Meaningful organization is paramount to the functioning of any city, otherwise they degenerate into disease-ridden fire-prone slums like much of ancient Rome.
The grid layouts is not a Car thing, it's a Spanish Empire thing. Colonial towns in Latin America also have grids. If anything, it's such an ancient design that the Spanish got it from the Roman Empiren
>grid system
>designed for cars
Grids where designed for pedestrians and lazy city planners just kept them for cars.
These are all fake temporary buildings for the Chicago worlds fair
I'm pretty sure these are for Meme World Exposition.
>blacks move in en masse
>white people move to new outer suburbs in response
>transport becomes car-centric as a economic filter to keep undesirables out of these suburbs
>end up with this
transport became car centric to make commutes easier, not to segregate.
why did people need to commute in the first place?
because everyone was tired living like victorian peasants in metal shacks
Worked wonders
Feature not a bug
Individualism + car dependent suburbs.
I don't know, but it's one of the most tragic things in history. Amerimutts cry about China's cultural revolutions but are oblivious to the one that happened in their own country.
Israel is grimmer in a lot of places. Lots of brutalist architecture and buildings that were made for quantity, not quality.
>What the fuck happened.
Leftists got their way
>What the fuck happened
This was never a real city, that's what.
Progressive crime fellating lunatics
Some crimes were pretty rampant back then, like spousal abuse, sex crimes, and various forms of corruption.
The glowtards have arrived
He's not wrong. These were constructed to impress Europoors.
>leftoids missing the point
The point isn't whether or not they were fake the point is that they used to do things like that at all, you'd never see that today.
That literally wasn’t his point though he literally said “this is what American cities looked like about 150 years ago” he literally thought this shit was real and was asking why america still doesn’t look like this and make its cities like this. Do you really think op was really sitting there thinking “why doesn’t America make completely fake cities anymore to impress gay countries?” If that’s the case he should kill himself, I would rather them actually make the city
Blame the internet and fast telecoms. Corporations don't need to meet up in huge elaborate expositions anymore unless you're from the Defense Sector.
just go to disneyland retard
I think you missed the point of your own post braindead rightoid
They didn't do stuff like that all day, they only did it to suck european toes and in tiny segments of the country.
Most american cities looked like dogshit then and still look like shit today
Listen...Survive your monkey pox and I'll bother to respond
No I think its just that you don't have an answer republicuck
>muh pol boogeyman
>mass replying
head on back where you came from outsider.
>IT NEVER EXISTED! THOSE PHOTOGRAPHS ARE FAKE! STOP WANTING YOUR CITIES TO BE BEAUTIFUL, THAT'S EXPENSIVE! I'M NOT PAYING ALL THAT MONEY, YOU WILL LIVE IN THE CONCRETE BOX AND YOU WILL LIKE IT!
You sound like a chink defending cheaply made buildings. You're literally mad about a movie set being torn down.
Anon, do you unironically think there were actual cities of neoclassicist architecture that got torn down for... reasons?
Yes
>Berlin
>Neoclassical
Eh the Altes Museum I guess fits the bill.
You guys are retarded. Yes, America literally and unironically had tons of neoclassical architecture as well as other art deco and other forms that was simply torn down and built overtop because people thought they were out of style, or they wanted bigger buildings
Pic related was Penn Station in NYC, completely demolished to make way for a new station. Not a "plaster movie set" as you all like to proclaim
You can literally google "America lost architecture" and see hundreds of examples of buildings being torn down and replaced by soulless concrete boxes. And you insinuate that it was all fake, it never existed, it was plaster and cardboard.
Chicago federal court building, demolished in 1965
The problem lays in the origin of American culture. The American at his genesis was a pioneer and innovator. He has no respect for the past, he is always on the move, always looking towards the future, so the American has no respect for the past and feels no shame in demolishing the old.
NYC, demolished 1968
Olympia Theatre, demolished in 1935 to build a casino
Buffalo, New York. Demolished in 1970 to build a shopping mall
Detroit federal building, demolished in 1931
This wasn't an American only trend. You'll find that even in Sweden and Italy they were doing this stuff. It's a 1950s worldwide problem.
Europe was only saved from car centric infrastructure by the 1970s oil crisis tbh. That's what convinced the French to invest in the TGV trains to make them less dependent on airplanes and cars
Maybe should have posted these instead of wooden sheds?
Maybe you should stop listening to reddit-tier propaganda thinking that beautiful buildings never existed because MUH WORLDS FAIR MUH PLASTER
City Hall Post Office, upstate New York, demolished in 1939.
We can't do this anymore. Cost too much money. Architecture is white supremacy. You will live in the glass/concrete box and you will be happy.
America also used to have expansive public transportation systems in walkable cities. All demolished and torn down to build highways and parking lots. Human beings were not meant to be cramped into tiny metal boxes to drive for 45 minutes to and from work every day.
>America used to be shit, and would force people to use public transportation like sardines
>inb4 "seething mutt"
You're God damn right I'm pissed off. The world could be a beautiful place but we're told that it costs too much money and is rooted in hatred and bigotry. Then they tell us the past never existed, it's all a lie, cities were always soulless concrete hellscapes.
Detroit, demolished in 1962
>you WILL go into debt for a car, you WILL pay $100 plus tip for gas, you WILL drive in a hour to the grocery store, and you WILL be happy!
>you WILL go into debt for a car,
buy a cheap used one for cash
>you WILL pay $100 plus tip for gas
I've owned cars since I was 15 and have never paid more than 60 bucks for a full tank of premium
>you WILL drive in a hour to the grocery store,
It is a 8 minute walk to my grocery store, I still drive when the weather is shitty or I have more to buy than I can comfortably carry.
>and you WILL be happy!
I am thank you, maybe seek new places and opportunities if you are unhappy with the quality of your life and environs.
>The world could be a beautiful place but we're told that it costs too much money and is rooted in hatred and bigotry.
Right wingers are the ones who oppose expanding public transit lmao
>reddit-tier propaganda
Reddit is where people jerk off to walkable cities and old architecture, you fucking Mongoloid. This image is literally a top rated post on /r/lostarchitecture and they got a whole other subreddit called /r/fuckcars with hundreds of thousands of users.
You're fighting a literal mirror kek
>Maybe you should stop listening to reddit-tier propaganda thinking that beautiful buildings never existed because MUH WORLDS FAIR MUH PLASTER
No one ever said neoclassical architecture never existed you dumbass, just about that specific example. homosexuals just make points up and get mad at them. Autistic behavior. Learn to read! You are ILLITERATE!
>The streetcars/trolleys
NYC is still livable without a car, but God damn what a travesty it is to not have trams overground. The metro is having to carry the city on its back, alone.
I was talking about the specific example they were showing you slack jawed poopie brain. So stupid and dumb and dumb and stupid.
Yes, plenty of perfectly fine not modernist and not run down buildings were torn down post war. Plenty before/after pics of British or Swedish cities prove that.
Nashville have litterally a giant 1v1 copy of the original Athen Pantheon, with a giant Golden statue of Athena included. Americana in the mid 800s were massive classicalboos
The 1904 St. Louis World's Fair to be exact. Many of these pavillions were temporary constructions of wood, steel frames, and plaster and were usually hollow. Sponsors and Participants built them for whatever they wanted to exhibit.
You retards know they were literally fake right? Actually fucking brain dead
“Most of the buildings of the fair were designed in the neoclassical architecture style. The area at the Court of Honor was known as The White City. Façades were made not of stone, but of a mixture of plaster, cement, and jute fiber called staff, which was painted white, giving the buildings their "gleam.” Architecture critics derided the structures as "decorated sheds.” The buildings were clad in white stucco, which, in comparison to the tenements of Chicago, seemed illuminated. It was also called the White City because of the extensive use of street lights, which made the boulevards and buildings usable at night.”
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/World's_Columbian_Exposition
I don’t like how America looks like rn either but you don’t have to lie to make that point. It always looked like a shithole
What’s with this absurd trend on the net where if you say something a homosexual doesn’t like they instantly assume all of your beliefs and thoughts and insult you based off those made up schizophrenic delusions
I think what happened was a professionally composed photograph of a well prepared ceremony near the fancies buildings in town.
Aside from the fact that these buildings were temporary constructions, it really is unfortunate that beauty for long was not really a consideration with regards to urban planning. Everything was built around cars, and thus our cities are largely sprawling urban hellscapes. There's a few movements trying to change this, but the damage is largely done.
>a fucking movie set
These are Papier Mache Constructions made for World's Fair expositions. They'd literally crumble in rain lol.
>this is what American cities looked like about 150 years ago
What the fuck happened.
sovl
>wtf happened
israelites
I wonder who the contractor was
pure coincidence
Even if it was plaster they can't even make plaster anymore.
>What the fuck happened.
The automobile
>cars destroyed our cities
>there's cars in the city before it was destroyed
>motel goes out of business because there's no reason to stay in that shithole full of spics
>neoclassical municipality building torn down as funds run dry when all the whites leave
>cornerstore still there except instead of being a quaint diner it's a Chinese restaurant with feces in the noodles
bump
Blacks and israelites.
Blacks moved in. Whites moved out. Whites needed to commute to work, so cities were levelled to make room for concrete arteries to get workers in and out of cities as conveniently as possible.
naggers, israelites
no more whites. don't tell these retards that