Was it the CIA or just really fucking stupid city planners that turned American cities into such shit? I know of the GM conspiracy to get rid of streetcars, but the significance of streetcar rails flush to the road 100 years ago seems to be lost on people in this country.
Look at how far we've fallen. I'll start with Detroit. Who the fuck is responsible for Detroit? Yes, niggers, but how did they even get there? Why weren't they allowed to build a nigger city? hmm
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Indianapolis
Modern architecture is jewish. It's not only about buildings around you looking pretty, your surroundings have a psychological effect on you
New Orleans
yeah but losing the streetcars was insane
hard to imagine that location today, I actually lived next to that dome (a Ukrainian orthodox church today) so it blows my mind.
Rochester
Buffalo
now a parking lot in Syracuse
Columbus
Palm Beach
Can't argue with those digits. Although I have to say these spread cities just look barren and dead to me, all that empty spaced paved with cement could have trees
Mobile, Alabama
well, you're probably right there. I don't think this is the height of aesthetics, but American cities look nothing like this now. They're trashy.
we also don't have flush streetcar rails any longer
This is this time again we had to remember the Goyim that most of those designs were made by Jews.
>why the change master
the same reasoning behind lightweight cars, its cheaper. streetcars cant handle today pop density. its one of those not so beutiful aspects of capitalism.
yeah but Detroit went from to pic related
Many other cities here are nothing like they once were and heavily depopulated, like Rochester, Syracuse, Buffalo, etc.
Charleston
even small towns destroyed their cores to make way for big roads and bigger buildings
that's not progressivism, that's just destructive
Did the street cars ever run over people? I wonder how dangerous it was without traffic lights.
Montreal installed cobblestones in this area and preserved the architecture/layout and now it's a tourist hotspot
No it was dumbass utopian modernism that thought we living in a “space age” apartment tower in a park created a cohesive and healthy space when it actually created social alienation and destroyed communities.
One of the reasons many American cities had their cores gutted was to destroy “old outdated buildings” and make way for modern towers that never came because of people moving to suburbs.
We are just now in current times seeing those empty lots created in the 1960’s fill in.
Those urban planners caused so much damage it’s taken 50 fucking years to come back.
We’d have been better off getting bombed desu
Pic realated what they almost did to central Paris
exactly. this blight on Manhattan for instance, is one of many. The boroughs are covered in them, and NYC wasn't alone in erecting these monstrosities. Some cities have knocked them down, since.
Paris already got rebuilt once in the 19th century, someone fucking sane had to have stepped in, because I'm sure those wrecking balls were being polished.
I believe this is a shot from old Paris before Napoleon III
We have ugly cities on top of it.
It was called "Urban Renewal," and yes, it was going to make everything clean and new because so much of the country was slummy and falling apart by the mid 1960s. But after they tore everything down, they just ran out of money thanks in large part to the war in Vietnam and all the social programs called "The War on Poverty." Lyndon Johnson did most of the damage, but the states and cities jumped on the bandwagons and joined in the carnage.
looks like italy
Columbus, Ohio
cities adapted to cars
gaudi died with one of those things
Cincinnati, Ohio
Cleveland, Ohio
that pic is the ideal: medium density with park all over. its just that the buildings are awful
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
The free market will fix it.
No it isn’t, housing projects like that breed crime, isolation and destroy community and culture
It's jewish copy and pasting, it's a teardown at this point. New York has a lot of that type of development, usually they're dangerous projects, though. These are where rappers come from.
Newsflash: Civilization peaked in the mid twentieth century and has been in decline ever since. More at 11.
London had trams, too!
yeah but it's bad
Richmond, Virginia
So unbelievably /comfy/
WHY DID WE HAVE TO BE BORN NOW IN THIS ORWELLIAN CLOWN WORLD
who /historicpreservation/ here?
It still looks like this, just with high buildings around it
and the same location today
Very spooky.
Planning departments in general thrive on most people having no idea what they do or not knowing their power level or accountability structure. It’s a black box to 99.9% of people. I worked in civil engineering for 25 years and had to deal with almost every city, town, and county for a few hours drive in all directions. Generally speaking planning departments are a total cluster fuck. The only nefarious stuff that happens is for friends of staff. They are too disorganized to do anything on purpose.
The real Illuminati of planning is the “company” who writes the planning codes. Don’t be fooled, the locals did not write the code. They just place little bows here and there amending it.
No shit, if you want to go down the rabbit hole, research the “company” who writes everyone’s planning code.
America is not worth saving.
I looked up a contemporary one of that, too. The trees and other aesthetic touches make it cozier, the cluttered architecture is absolutely post modern
utterly disgusting
i know what youre saying, but that only means theyre shit because of the low iq people that inhabit them. a private project like this, if they were designed towards the middle class, and had communal areas like a common market, would be pretty cool. why? because you see theyre not designed for cars, theyre surrounded by parks and walkability. youre niggers if you dont understand this
Los Angeles
I do understand this. That's a picture of Peter Stuyvesant Village which isn't even bad, but without commerce and the way they're designed in particular, when you're deep in a complex like that, you're removed from New York City. 21st century city planning would do it more organically. Not zoning blocks the size of towns.
> bunch of grey boxes
looks like a warehouse ffs
this was knocked down
I don't even want to imagine the smell of the streets full of horseshit
Comforting to know that Columbus was always an irremarkable city
someone thought this was worth destroying
I think you guys are racist
Vertically stacked cucksheds are inherently optimized towards lower class. High supply, low demand etc. etc. etc.
>checked flag
We don't have CIA here but guess what we have ?
and then this monstrosity was put on top of it
of course you have the CIA lol, it's run by the same jewish trillionaire industrialists and financiers who run your country and all the other ones.
Yes real living human beings in America that cared about their craft built these things. Once you take the architecture redpill, you can't go back.
you once entered New York City like a king
now you enter like a rat
Some of those Victorian-era homes still exist in Echo Park in Los Angeles. The neighborhood is mostly Mexican now though. Some white hipsters moved in and gentrified the neighborhood a bit.
This official son youtu.be
where the city of today was planned
everyone gets to live in Disneyland!
Does Indiana still build hotels like this or..?
Don't be sad because it's gone, be happy, because it was.
What about Arkansas?
So beautiful. The roads and sidewalks are all open and there's so much space every where.
Saratoga Springs, New York
If I'm not mistaken, they pretty much flattened that entire hill to build downtown. That was one of LA's most historic neighborhoods. It was full of beautiful Victorian houses and in the 50s they bulldozed the whole thing to make room for modern skyscrapers
a wellspring resort there
Interesting... dunno the location on that one, but I have another from the same year.
Saratoga Springs, again
Late 19th and early 20th century American Architecture was terrific. Why has everything turned to shit. Sad.
Hotel pool in 19th century Florida
From a European city to a suburban soulless shithole...
How far USA has fallen...
This thread needs more pain.
St Augustine, Florida hotel
I was in Saratoga a couple of months ago, and although still pretty, it does not look like that anymore, sadly.
hahahaha what is wrong with people
the court of the Ponce
Palm Beach hotel