Just a reminder that the underlying problems that lead to this kind of architecture aren't explicitly left-wing. When you were born all the land already belonged to someone else. These might be private properties, corporate owned properties or state owned properties. If you weren't lucky enough to inherit something from your parents you are forced to live in these boxes. This problem gets worse over time. Lack of opportunities to earn enough money to buy a plot/house, paired with a lack of space in cities also contributed to the situation. It's shit everywhere because we as humans have continuously failed to implement better solutions.
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Left wing? LOL. This is a Soviet Block. They are everywhere in the old USSR.
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American suburbia.
Especially in the rust belt
Why is this right wing or left wing housing?
I guess you can maybe make an argument that this is centralized planning, trying to make the best use of the land available and that right-wing would be pure chaos where the market decides what's going on. On so you'd have sprawl next to Mansions next to slums, next to McDonald's, and no parks, and every single tiny piece of land has a building on it, and it all must be fully utilized trying make money in some capitalism way?
Honestly, it doesn't seem the worst way to do it from a housing density standpoint. Yes, we all want the standalone suburb house or some spot in the countryside, but that's not the world we live in. For high density housing, this doesn't seem that bad. Each building has a balcony and overlooks a park and has fresh air and sunshine.... How do you do this better?
or is it about equality? Every unit here is equal and therefore bad? That seems a positive in my eyes. Is that really the difference here? There aren't the ultra poor and the mega rich all mixed in together... Where the poor are in slums and the Richer mansions, is that right wing architecture?
What's the best way to build high density housing? Tall buildings surrounded by Parks seems to be the most optimal way, right? What am I missing here? The buildings aren't pretty enough?
More like capitalist architecture…
Edit: I’d rather see little communities of tiny houses with central services like a little bodega, laundry-mats, parks, greenways, etc. within walking/biking distances.
People here understand that the Soviet Union had a homeless population too, right? They actually had a higher rate than the US in the 1980s.
What was their homelessness rate in the 1980s? I've looked for 5 minutes and have not been able to find anything. In the US it was 0.01%.
Since the Soviet Union pretended that homelessness didn't exist, they never officially published figures on it, however most experts both today and back then agreed that the homeless population was in the hundreds of thousands. Most conservative estimates put the figure at around 150k-200k, while some put the figures as high as 2 million.
The Soviet Population was 266 million in 1980 and 286 million in 1989. In both cases, if we go around the absolutely most conservative estimates of 150k, that's around 0.05% of the population.
https://www.rbth.com/history/332657-homeless-people-ussr https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1989_Soviet_census https://www.csmonitor.com/1988/0519/ehome.html
So, I'm not interested in being a Debbie Debater here, and I'm absolutely not claiming that you're wrong, but I think two of the three sources you give don't really pass my standard for reliable.
The first one doesn't quite pass the vibe check for me. When I go to the home page, the top articles are about "the five greatest russian erotic films" and "7 budding russian models". It just doesn't scream "impartial scientific article" to me.
The Christian Science Monitor one is from a researcher from radio liberty research. What I read is that this place was founded and funded by the CIA with the explicit purpose of broadcasting propaganda into the east bloc. To me, I'm about as likely to trust an article from this source as I am to trust an article about homelessness in South Korea coming from a think tank funded by North Korea, called the "Proletarian Empowerment Institute" or whatever.
One thing I can find plenty of impartial sources on is that it's hard to find reliable data on homelessness from the USSR. But to go and trust some less than credible sources for a lack of alternatives is pure lamp post bias.
I don't have a dog in this fight, and I'm not saying you're wrong. All I'm saying is that the sources you cite don't pass my personal smell test, and I still feel agnostic on whether or not homelessness rates in the USSR were better or worse than in the US in the 80s.
As an aside, it's really embarrassing, but I don't know where I got the 0.01% figure from. A second google search seems to suggest a range of 600,000 to 2,000,000 out of 247,000,000 so something closer to 0.0025%--0.08%. These figures I am more likely to trust, because the research climate for social sciences in the US was a bit freeer than in the USSR. For me personally, it doesn't really affect whether or not I believe that the homelessness rate in the USSR was higher or lower than in the US because I still feel like I'm pretty much in the dark on the former. But maybe for you these figures help you sharpen your beliefs, so I figured I'd share them.
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Since the Soviet Union pretended that homelessness didn't exist
Ugh... Anticommunist propaganda. Vagrancy was considered illegal, and "homeless" people had access to free dorms. Your figures are entirely made up
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"Dumb commies, they think this is better than owning your own houses and renting them out so they don't have to work? Savages, let them live in cardboard boxes." / the bourgeoisie
Has anyone seen the cat?