This lays bare how privileged people become Marxists, though. Brutalist design looks good from one perspective: as a toy. Those table models with the tiny people strolling down hot, dry, blank rivers of concrete are thrilling, Disneyesque even, surging with purpose and optimism. https://twitter.com/realwokieleaks/status/1063296333157683200 …
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I don't think enough people consider what a building will look like later in life. Almost everything looks better when it goes up. 20 years later, not so much.
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Raw concrete goes bad real fast, though.
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It's also hostile to human life in a way most other building materials aren't. It doesn't just break down -- it's hard to clean, spills soak into the grain and stink; it's hard as stone _and_ abrasive, so falls and other accidents break bones and pulp flesh.
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The uniformity was not only on the concrete "blocks", as they were called here, but everywhere... In the stores you didn't order "detergent with lilac aroma", because there was ONLY detergent. Or sausage. Or cheese, milk... All were what the Party thinks you deserve.
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“If I offered you twenty thousand pounds for every dot that stopped, would you really, old man, tell me to keep my money, or would you calculate how many dots you could afford to spare?”
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What travel writer was it who mourned that Eastern European countries don’t have monuments celebrating their years of Communism, except perhaps a few leftover Soviet things not yet removed?
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Bill Bryson, I think.
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I just want buildings that can turn into giant battle robos fam
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Don't we all?
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You can't trust any of these people caught up in believing that stuffing people into Judge Dredd-style tower blocks will create community. The history of "urban planning" is that of people believing they are creating utopia but actually creating unlivable hellscapes.
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