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Why do Asian cities look like the future?
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>>57456700
Because they are the future.
>>57456748
This video makes my palms sweat but look at that architecture
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gLDYtH1RH-U
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>>57456700
>hk
Literally one of my worst nightmares, modern asian cities just rub me the wrong way in nearly every aspect..
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These are the best from the other thread in terms of full cities, and that means mid rises. Let's stop just posting pics here and discuss.
I think the best model for cities is one where most of the city's area is composed of mid (4-7 floor) rises and a skyscrapper (ideally with art deco ones, but it's never coming back) zone, with plenty of parks and town squares around.
To top it, a forest ring on the outskirts of the city is ideal, but not necessary. It helps to fresh the air a bit and mark clearly where the city ends, and so avoid the retarded urban sprawls such as mexico city and são paulo.
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World fairs are so cool
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>>57456777
It's really only china that goes full commieblock in evey city.
>>57456795
Anyone have some Kowloon shots?
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>>57456748
Chongqing just doesn't even seem real.
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A few
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>>57456907
So insane people lived there
>>57456935
Pyongyang is based
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TTRdU9vJPKM
>>57456974
comfy
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>>57456964
>bus on wires
When I saw that for the first time in Beijing I was literally shocked, how 3rd world can one get.
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>>57456849
Found this parisian block while searching
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>>57456771
Fucking hell, I'm getting a rush just from watching that. Absolute madman.
>>57456782
I agree for the most part. Thankfully Manhattan is broken up more or less like that with midtown and downtown being the two main skyscraper central areas. We have a lot of highrise building, though. I like them for the most part though.
>>57456771
Apparently they've got a new video coming out soon.
http://english.chosun.com/site/data/html_dir/2016/03/30/2016033001533.html
>>57457088
Do you have any of the lower city's courtyard?
>>57457112
Sadly this is the end of my folder
>>57457095
Manhattan really is the exception though. I don't know why but the high rises everywhere don't bother me in New york as much as in, say, Honk Kong.
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>>57456996
Talinn has those to
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>>57457077
Jesus
>>57457169
Good pic. Shame about all the commieblocks
>>57457139
Kowloon must have smelled really really bad
>>57457222
The source says ten thousand people lived on those four blocks.
>>57457222
Got anymore of St Pierre?
>>57457171
I'd say it's probably due to them being a nice mix of buildings, while also being tall without being ridiculously tall. Not to mention the rest of the boroughs are usually low to mid rise primarily.
>>57456777
It's soul numbing.
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>>57457319
Rarely keep more than 1 pic of each city 2bh.
>>57457321
>the walled city had a smaller crime rate than my city
I am not fabricating it
They are building new Clarion hotel to Jätkäsaari Helsinki going to be 4 stars.
>>57457458
When ready
>>57457407
Also comfiest city coming through.
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>>57457517
fuuuck
How much does it cost to live there?
If I moved there right now would I be able to find a job and live comfortably?
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>>57457458
Doesn't look too bad, besides the color.
>>57457517
Looks comfy. How warm does it get in the summer?
>the goy know
>>57457549
Thease are currently being build shopping centre and metro downstairs
>>57457540
Due to the oil market being weak prices should be decent atm, though work's obviously a tougher one.
>>57457564
Around 20C mean during high summer, it does get very windy doe.
>>57457611
Are there really neighborhoods full of jews in nyc? I thought this was a meme and they all pretty much spread out kinda like with little italy
>>57457627
What are those roofs for? I assume those are balconies or something.
>>57457627
construction site webcam
http://symbolos.fi/srv/kalasatama1/
Please post art deco someone, I need to start my folder
>>57457676
That's not as cold as I expected t.bh
Considering global warming it looks like the ideal weather. Btw I'm talking from 26 C at night. It makes me wanna kill myself to try to sleep in the summer.
>>57457690
There are, hell my neighborhood is a majority jewish. There are plenty of neighborhoods that are majority asian, black, dominican ect. It's just a thing here.
I kind of want to ask, does any other city suffer from people who want their city to be a shithole? I'm always surprised when people tell me that nyc lost it's spirit after it cracked down on crime and actually became livable. Then again these are usually the same people who move away and make us look bad because they think they're tough for living in nyc.
>>57458104
No that would be stupid
>>57458104
It's just silly nostalga. I'm sure one day Detroit will get cleaned up and people will say the same thing about it.
>>57458104
Maybe it's a nyc thing. It's golden age will always be the near past.
>>57458104
'muh gentrification'-fags exist in pretty much every nice American city.
>>57458147
To be fair I can't imagine many european cities being as much of a shithole as 70's and 80's nyc was.
>>57458180
That'll be the day.
>>57458196
Funny enough it's people who didn't live in the shitty neighborhoods who say it the most.
Last pic from me. Northern Manhattan is always a nice place to pass some time in.
>>57458294
Or the people who are actively gentrifying it
>>57443682
By that point it was pretty much too late. You know how many pics I have of beautiful American buildings that no longer exist? I don't either, but it's a damn lot.
Also, I feel that Art Deco was the only style that really leveraged the precision and efficiency of modern building techniques to make something that was actually aesthetic, rather than the bland boxes we build today. Or used to build, anyways. It might just be me, but I feel like nowadays we're finally, FINALLY starting to move away from the Modernist/International styles that have been a blight on cities for so long.
>go to bed 4 hours ago
>expect dead bred by the time i wake up
>it's actually going strong with even a new one made
Nice, proud of you lads.
t. last OP
>>57458578
Requesting more comfy images of Japan.
>>57458636
Don't have too much on me, unfortunately.
Old Japan is amazing, though. Shame so little is left.
>>57458772
Another part of the same city. I really like the contrast.
>>57456771
Holy shit Ivan is crazy.
>>57458480
I think all can agree that art deco was the last great style of architecture. Share some great american art deco pls
Lasnamäe Tallinn population 118 437
downtown renovations and construction in houston
>>57459035
Looks like alot more than that.
Takeda-jou, a 400 year old castle ruin atop of a mountain in the same prefecture as Himeji and all that. Last lord of the castle literally committed sudoku, and after that it was left abandoned.
I really like it even if it's in ruins. There's something unusual about it.
>>57459398
And I guess it truly was a Castle in the Sky™
Lijiang, China
A town stuck in the past, largely left untouched by the grubby claws of the modern world.
>>57460668
very purty place
>>57460735
top cozy from street level too
Rotterdam, NL
Not much to say. It is what it is.
>>57461577
the port of rotterdam is impressive
>already at page 9 because of the eternal a*stralian
WEW
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>>57457441
Rightful Canuck clay (to be honest).
>>57456782
>forest ring on the outskirts helps to fresh the air
lol maybe for the people on the outskirts
>>57463221
>implying A*stralian internet can handle 4chan
>>57456751
yet chinese are leaving their country
>>57464082
Maybe the future is just that shitty
>>57461577
post more traditional + modern building pics
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Creepy one of London which looks straight out of Killing Floor
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Arctic town that doesn't look complete 3rd world
>>57470800
Narvik is okay, but I wouldn't rate it over Tromsǿ, or even Bodǿ.
>>57471026
yeah, i messed up with the town/city translation of "by"
meant a smaller settlement less than 20k
but totally agree with you that Tromsǿ and Bodǿ are the best looking settlements north of trondheim
>>57471322
Kjeks, forstår.
Related I guess is that Bodǿ is getting yet another high-rise built now, only two years since the last one was completed.
>>57471620
and on the dirty plot to the left of it, another one is waiting for the green light. While I do wonder why they're trying to create a skyline so far north, I can't say I mind.
Already miss winter 2bh
how do you want your bridge senpai
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> flag
Rich fag, go away, reee. You have stolen all our money.
>>57473802
lmao
It's a really good idea, though. Shame the execution isn't.
>>57473942
Not actually that bad though, disregarding the head. Looks alright from a distance.
>>57474245
yes, maybe add scales like frank gehry sculptures
>>57473879
sorry bruv
>>57470800
Eh, Narvik is a shit-tier Northern Norwegian town. Harstad(!), Bodo, Tromso, Svolvær, Bronnoysund all kick the shit out of ot.
>>57471620
Absolutely unecessary and unaestethic tb.h
>>57476917
Also I doubt anyone knows of any church or mosque better than firenzi's cathedral.
Bump
Just looked it up, HK's density is only 6 500/km2. It looks way denser.
For comparison, Paris' density is of 21 000/ km2.
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Barcelona's is of 16 000
ayy
>>57478506
nevermind, Honk kong consits of 75% no build up areas, which make it's real density go up to 26 000/km2. Still it could be organized with less super high rises, I think.
>>57478827
Even worse: it's 2016
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>>57479176
Just fuck my shit up
Zaha Hadid died.
Hurray!
>>57479509
I just hope we start running aways from modernism as soon as possible tb.h. Maybe we have to kill some people first.
Ooh, isn't it just so bloody quirky.
>>57479704
In cloudy weather it probably looks dystopian as fuck.
>>57479704
Saw it while it was still under construction back in 2014.
Was actually legit frightened when stepping out of the station and looking above me, but it was kind of cool too. All alien and shiny.
>>57479958
What did you think of Birmingham?
Traveled to Singapore last year and was amazed at nearly every aspect of their urban planning and architecture
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>>57480925
Was only there for a couple hours, while waiting for my train to Manchester.
Didn't get too see much outside of the areas close to the station, but it was an inconsistent mix of nice, odd and ugly. I think Manchester seemed to be more successful with its urbanism.
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Interesting.
I had the opposite impression. I have only been in Manchester for a few hours, but didn't like it. I've been in Brum for a bit longer, and it felt much more city-ish to me, much busier.
Manchester and Brum are fighting it out for second-city status in present-day England.
>>57478506
Flat roofs are so disgusting. Barcelona would look god tier from aerial views if the buildings were typical Mediterranean shingled roofs.
>>57481497
It still probably looks great from below, which is really what matters most.
>>57478791
Is this Lyon?
>>57481361
I don't know, Birmingham didn't feel as big to me as Manchester did despite technically being so.
Manchester just seemed more ambitious, and it was more consistently urban and easy to navigate. That said, I was in Manchester for 2 days and Brum for 2 hours, so this impression might have been different if I did equal time on both. Not to say Manchester didn't have have its quirks either.
