Do you have those type of gaps in you city?
They're quite often here because we got craterized in WW2 and despite the time did not yet rebuild it all.
I took this photo yesterday for another topic but might as well post it and show you lads what makes me cringe.
Such is life in Poland.
Oh yes!
I grew up in a Victorian tenement. The whole street was the same, beautiful houses - listed buildings now.
Except for right across from us, one section of the tenements was blown apart during bombing raids and is now a pink Brutalist flat.
>>51541290
Yes. Buildings here get demolished, burned down etc, and nobody rebuilds on them.
Such is life in the rust belt.
>>51541360
I know that far too well lad.
Look at the building on the left of the picture.
I understand WHY people 70 or 50 years ago rebuild stuff asap, but I can't understand why they'd put so little effort in it. Maybe it was the lack of resources or manpower after the war?
Either way it's shit and makes me want to puke.
>>51541290
Here, commieblocks have a gap of like half a meter one from another.
And a playground behind them. I have just found mine destroyed, cement being placed instead of these dusty stones. Cement was misplaced - thus it got slack and nobody can play there anymore.
I haven't thought I am going to see this if I visit my childhood's gommie.
Our mayor is beyond all hope.
>>51541433
>>51541290
same city btw. just we got so many of those that it's sad to post.
>>51541360
I forgot to add, post a pic from google maps.
>>51541290
Sometimes, but most of Ljubljana was rebuilt after the earthquake in the 19th century.
One place that wasn't is an open-air market ever since.
>>51541433
buildings cost more to build today but are mass producible
they require better materials (safety and health codes)
labor is more expensive (you cant pay a serf two tomatoes an hour to carve ornate wood)
so you get shit like that to keep costs down
>>51541470
Pic related is a market where a monastery and a girls school used to be.
what do you mean by gaps/
>>51541514
The empty space I showed at the pic in the post that started th thread or a extreme example I'm showing now.
Brits got like 1 building, max 2 gaps, we often got huge ones because our whole streets got demolished.
>>51541507
>they require better materials (safety and health codes)
Actually, a lot of them shittier shittier materials, like pre-fab houses and such. Buildings used to be built out of stone and brick and are still standing after hundreds of years. Today buildings have a life span of like 100 years.
>(you cant pay a serf two tomatoes an hour to carve ornate wood)
Nigga, craftsmen were well paid, no serf did ornaments. That's why well ornamented structures were only built by well off people in high positions, governments or royalty.
Sure, we have the ability today to build better and stronger structures, but we rarely do so because it's not economical.
>>51541433
I think it's because of liberalism, really. Especially the leftist ideals permeating architecture after the war.
In the Victorian age, these buildings were for employees of the bank that was here and their servants.
>>51541290
I Still have gaps from the Napoleonic Invasions
>>51541510
Such beautiful buildings!
Thanks for Laibach btw.
>>51541645
You could always, you know, plug them in like pic related.
>>51541747
>Laibach
tanz mit uns heheh
>>51541507
>buildings cost more to build today but are mass producible
No lad. they cost much less, they just look a bit better then in the 80 or 70ties.
Pic related is my neighbourhood. It's few years old, cosy, got underground parkings, elevators outside for disabled, fountains, gardens, etc. but for example people living a floor below me can hear me fuckinbg my gf or playing ps4 when it's too loud.
You don't get that in a city building from 1900 or 1950.
>>51541433
here in the US is was for a variety of reasons:
1. glass/concrete office buildings were cheaper and stronger than mason ones
2. brick ones were very expensive to build given the steel frame reinforcement requirements for it
3. people wanted cheap suburban homes, not quality housing. An upgrade to a single family house was preferable to renting inside a multiunit complex.
4. retail outfits never gave a fuck except for Sears, who made all their stores into massive three floor concrete shoeboxes
>>51541789
We could, but there so much to do that it will prolly take around 20-30 more years.
I mean, over 50% of the city got craterized and the rest was partially destroyed. So like 45% was standing but was burned/missing a part of the building etc.
>>51541695
>I think it's because of liberalism, really. Especially the leftist ideals permeating architecture after the war.
So is it because of liberalism or because of leftism?
>>51541695
it would look so much better if instead of the taxi stop they'd make a lawn and plant some trees along the road.
>>51542034
Your country is a special snowflake that likes to dick about with words. In Europe, liberalism is synonymous with the hard left in social terms.
Just like how over here a republican is someone who wants to kill the monarch. Christ, do you know how bad it is for a rightie over here to say that they like "republicans"?
>>51542059
It's in Glasgow so they would probably opt for poppies. Not out of remembrance, the Lord Provost openly despises the military, but because "muh heroin!"
>>51541832
Well to be honest, as it is right now a normal apartment(a 50m2 one) at my city costs like 90-100k euro or a bit more while buying land and building a 130m2 house would cost like 120k euros, maybe 150 max. So more and more people move to the suburbs. The city has like 180k people living in it and the closes surrounding area just reached 110k with around 80-100k more living within public transportation range.
That causes insane traffic even in a not-as-big cities like mine.
I have no idea why the fucking building developers want so much cash for apartments if houses are so cheap.
Btw. I ment to post this pic in the first post, but I missclicked.
>>51542126
>Your country is a special snowflake that likes to dick about with words
>A country on the other side of the globe, that had no quick way to communicate with Europe for hundreds of years, has different words for certain things
Wow! What a mystery!
Tram bump.
We have plenty of gaps
Not only that. On my parents' Victorian terrace in East London, the back wall actually bulges outward to a noticeable extent. You can see it if you stand at the bottom of the wall and look up. It is the result of shockwaves from when the Germans were bombing near by
>>51543191
What was the % of overall city damage? How much of it was standing and how much got leveled with the ground? I'm curious since I never saw any numbers.
>>51543225
I don't know the % damage to London. One statistic I know is that one million houses in London were destroyed. And here's the bomb map
http://www.bombsight.org/#10/51.4981/-0.1353
But obviously it's not nearly as bad as what some Polish cities experienced
>>51543315
>Clydebank
>raped by the blitz
>SNP mocks blitz and victims
>70 years later, we elect them
>>51543315
Didn't want to compare it or anything, I was just curious about the damage since there's not a lot of info about it and, well, it's history so it's interesting in most cases.
From what I remember the bombings were quite severe but to show germans that the citizens of London are not affraid they still went to the markets to buy food even if they risked being bombed.
>>51541290
What's wrong with the pic?
>>51543452
see >>51542844 the "gap" between buildings
it's horrid and shameful, it's what you get if you live here
>>51543364
There's quite a lot of information about the Blitz, especially the London Blitz. Loads of books and documentaries about it.
Here's a good documentary which covers that period, the whole series is worth watching btw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=goiqWk9YBAE&list=PLLvOGyTQQoqziO-Uobw49bDRT2Lel0t3R&index=4
>>51543315
kek, the place where my friend is living was bombed
>>51541800
fuck off normie
>>51543486
Thanks a lot lad, I'll watch it after work. It's new and interesting to me so I'll be a good watch.
>>51541290
I hate that. It's bad now, but even in our architectural "heyday" there would still be very noticeable gaps thanks to our buildings being nowhere as uniform as yuro buildings are. you look at old pictures of the US and you'll see that buildings will often have several floors of difference in height with their neighbors.
>>51541290
>Do you have those type of gaps in you city?
Yep.
The places that aren't filled with ugly buildings are re purposed as even uglier parking lots.
>>51543873
>uglier parking lots
Oh parking lots in the places where gaps are are popular here as well. People who allow it should be shot.
>>51543890
An excellently developed area in downtown Riga.
On the left a parking lot and stalin era building on the right a commie block. 10/10. Excellent use of space.
>>51543998
If you follow in the direction of first pic for 200 meters this is how it looks from there.
>>51543998
beautifel
Castle bump.
>we were born in Poland
>>51541290
Have my gap again.
>>51546482
And this one too.
If you want one city sized gap, take a look at Detroit.
>>51546529
but this looks like a industrial neighbourhood or a post-industrial one, not somewhere in the center
>born in London
