Right wing Architecture
Honestly, commieblocks arent that bad. Most of the pictures of them are cherry picked to be the unmaintained, dirty ones, and are exclusively taken in gloomy weather. The houses on the inside are usually good quality as well (though likely not well maintained anymore).
Hell, if you just painted them colourfully, they’d look nice.
The thing is, a lot of capitalist countries also used to build these, except they stopped due to outrage from real estate barons and NIMBYs losing value on their buildings.
Still, some colors. And we know now a lot more about livable non-depressing urban planning.
If the sky is pretty and golden you don’t don’t have to look at or think about the actual people in the streets. Like magpies.
Yes, there is something even more depressing than late soviet (or late Francoist, if you want a right wing equivalent) residential monsters: just look at any first world homeless camp.
also, if you live in the states, go look at some car oriented developments. they are just as brutalist, just as same-y, just as sad
That isn’t left wing architecture. It’s USSR architecture. Don’t make everything bad from that dictatorship a part of the left. The Soviet Union wasn’t even real communism. Because communism wouldn’t have a regime consisting of oligarchs and a dictator for example. Just because some people abused something for bad, doesn’t make the thing itself bad.
But these Stalin blocks were actually built an mass to house all the nomads living in the USSR. Most people didn’t have a home, electricity, running water. They used to live in tents. So even though these blocks are ugly and depressing, it made sure people didn’t have to live in a tent with -40°C and Stalin was widely praised for that.
I am a loud critic of the USSR but WW2 destroyed an enormous amount of housing in their country and they spent decades struggling to catch up. Even prior to that, they had WW1 and a civil war negatively impact housing and during the interwar industrialization they focused on increasing industrial output with most home building relegated to cheap temporary construction. A number of the economic issues faced by the USSR were unrelated to any specific political or economic system (for example, the vastness of the country added transportation expenses)
Better than live in ugly apartments than freeze in the harsh Russian winters.
Homes are better than homelessness 100% but those commieblock suburbs can be pretty depressing. And I’ve lived in a few. Different colours and some evergreen stuff helps a bunch. Even some other marerials, some wood panels etc. But it all ads cost.
Phew, so glad there is no homelessness in Russia or China…
Both of which are not lefty?
They’re fascist dictatorship wearing a lefty mask
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I didn’t realize an expansive category of political ideologies had adopted a unified architectural language. 🤦
if the us were a socialist/communist country, land ownership would be abolished and housing would be free and nationalized/collectivized which means a lot of people would be living comfortably in shelter. seriously!
You can find virtually identical construction in Franco’s Spain. Source: I was grown in one of those places.
I recall that picture being a photoshop of a right-wing country. So it’s both fake AND fundamentally right-wing in design.
This one is Moscow.
To me this says less “Leftist” and more “rich urban planners cutting corners for lower-class housing which will end in a horrific fire or collapse.”
The above is definitely not because of developers.
Look at all that greenspace.
Why is the above considered ugly on the first place?
Rows of uniform monotonous rectangles made of concrete. Even a coat of paint and some color would be more pleasing on the eye but I’m not sure you could reasonably paint concrete and get it to last thru Russian winters.
Right wing architcture:
those are FUCKING SPIKES to keep people away, the fact that they don’t use daggers instead is strangeThey keep the homeless at bay, but wait until the Ayurveda Yoga crowd discovers them. They’ll be worse than a pidgeon infestation.
If someone walking by, falls over that, that’s a lawsuit waiting to happen.
Sorry you got downvoted because that might actually be a good catalyst for undermining hostile architecture.
HOMELESS PEOPLE ARE NOT PIGEONS
They’re still shitting all over the park I wish my toddler could more freely play at.
You’re not wrong but people gotta defecate and frequently have no where to do it. If we cared for our people, with housing in this case, it would benefit literally everyone else too.
Actually, they are. As far as the average conservative cares, both of them are dirty pests that should be driven away.
And under no circumstances should you feed them or they’ll become dependent on you and keep coming back. It’s better to let them die.
Might as well just put em out of their misery note then.
(For anyone who does not know, right wing lunatics are starting to openly advocate for this!)
SPEAK FOR YOURSELF *coo coo*
Well, not usually.
I have met a homeless furry who was kind of a pigeon.
Or one of those homeless camps that are everywhere now.
Oh they sweep those at least weekly.
