Ahh yes, the famous left wing authoritarian centric planning government Soviet Russia
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Guaranteed housing, human-centered urban planning organized around moving on foot and in public transit, universal healthcare, free education to the highest level, the abolition of unemployment and the defeat of Nazism aren't left wing enough for you?
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This litterally looks like any neighbourhood build in Spain in the 60s.
Hey if you need a lot of housing real quick utilitarian designs like this tend to come about, doesn't really matter who is doing it. Hell the Romans had some prefab designs that had a passing resemblance to this.
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Semi relatedly, there's some new blocks in my city that are both ugly and expensive to live in. It's this soulless, almost corporate feeling type of architecture. Doesn't fit into how the city looks at all. They had the opportunity to decide whether to build affordable housing or something pretty that aesthetically fits into the city and picked neither. No doubt the shareholders shed a tear of joy.
rent one and get a free potato
Who could've guessed, low-cost housing doesn't look fancy!
One interesting thing I'm noting is that picture appears to have been taken on a rather dreary winter day. I can see a lot of trees between the buildings, and I'd be interested in seeing what this place looks like in other seasons and better weather
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Lots of trees there. That place still looks pretty nice in the summer.
A quick web search had someone say it's Yaroslavsky District, Moscow and while I'm not entirely convinced (having trouble matching the photo to a map), in the summer it will probably look similar to the photo of Yaroslavsky District on Wikipedia.
We lived in similar housing back in the 80's, and the surrounding area was nothing but lovely greenery and forests, by design. Then the 00's came around and they privatized everything, sold the apartments, and cut down all the greenery. I don't know why, it's just something they do, like, they had to create low income jobs somehow and decided the best way is to equip parks&rec with chainsaws and just go around and cut shit down to validate their own existence, so they could show their amazing statistics.
Now everything is barren concrete, and it looks way more like actual grey communist dystopia than it did before. Go figure.
and cut down all the greenery
After visiting Russia some time ago and comparing old pictures, a lot of the trees were cut simply to make parking spots. Most people didn't own a car in the USSR because public transit and walk ability were prioritized, and so these areas weren't designed with parking in mind. When the Soviet Union was antidemocratically dissolved, public transit was gutted and cars were heavily publicized, so most families who could afford it ended up buying some old car, and they needed parking spots.
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I hate our society's fixation with ugly utilitarianism. We could be making beautiful things for all of us
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I'm not sure what "left wing architecture" means. Because, to me, this looks like the sort of thing you have to do when the population grows like crazy. Those tend to be areas where women have little education and little power.
Those tend to be areas where women have little education
By the 1960s, the USSR had more women engineers than the rest of the planet combined, and some 45% of the PhDs in chemistry in the 1970s were awarded to women. Mistakes were made in the USSR, for sure, but equal access to education between women and men was not one of them.
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On the picture: hundreds of flats with individual windows and balcony
Oh no, giving hundreds of families a balcony, how terribile! What's next: non-shared bathrooms and kitchens?
I actually wish they’d build more of those than the overpriced “luxury condos” people build now that no one can afford.
Those blocks might be not perfect, but they were part of a program to build housing for all those people living in quite bad conditions after the war and after everything that went through in eastern europe in the 20th century. They needed millions of homes and quick. And they might be ugly to some people, but they are better than slums and you shouldn't take their condition today after several decades for what they were when they were new.
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homelessness
Data centers, that empty parking lot outside the abandoned mall, deportation camps…
Funny enough, despite the ugly aesthetics, there is a great sense of community in social housing.
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