Before/after city development picture thread.Also can post comparison pics between different countries - cities of a similar population, in a similar district.
In the last thread, a Russian rightfully pointed out that weather and color intensity can change the percieved reality.So here's a pic from yandex of a Russian city (google stopped updating after the war), and they cranked the HDR to kind of comical levels imo. Which one still looks better, i leave that up to you.Although i did choose a much larger Russian city, sorry about that, this is the second largest city in Romania. Both pictures taken in "back alleys" of a communist neighborhood.
And here one comparison where the weather and colors are much more unsightly in the Romanian pic. Both pics are from a similar sized town, close to a river, in the city's "central park".
These are improvements in the Serbian capital, Belgrade, over the course of a decade.
This is an improvement in Russia, the top picture became a meme online.
>>538767565Sometimes I fantasize about being a powerful dictator able to make great transformations in Haussmann style.
Picrel is Romania's third/second largest town, close to the Hungarian and Serbian border. The current mayor is an ethnic German, who immigrated there and won mayorship twice.Many buildings still under renovations, but at least the car mania is getting fixed a bit. >>538768060Isn't the entire Paris mostly in that style already?
>>538768546Yes but boomers have ravaged it with their poor taste.
I once joined a Russian telegram group, and when i said where I'm from, they called me a gypsy. Since then, i became curious how the mighty ones live.Picrel is a bridge near town center. >>538768588How so?
>>538767720they are both trash because modernism is trash
>>538767565modern "development" just means banning cars and putting fagcycle paths everywhere>you vill ride the rented bicycle it's the same over here btw
>>538768060you don't realize how better Paris was before hausmann evisceration.
>>538767565This is Strategic Operations, Inc. An Israeli glownigger operation located conveniently by a San Diego airport, for ease of smuggling children, nuclear material, and bioweapons. It is also located suspiciously close to the "charity" Jewish Family Service. In addition to smuggling dangerous things, the facility produces crisis actors for staged operations.
>>538768546now post pics of team mini
Okay, let's check out smaller towns, aka where most people live.I've noticed that in Russia, even in this small town the buildings are very tall. Despite this higher population density, they don't appear to be better maintained. Both pics taken right on the outskirt of the residential section of town. >>538769243>modernismThat is communist brutalist architecture. I've been a long advocate of demolishing and rebuilding these buildings, but it would cost a lot. Anyway, people had no say in how buildings get built in a communist dictatorship.>>538769324Bikes are healthy and the white mans's transport vehicle tho.>>538769402Wdym?
>>538769958>Bikes are healthy and the white mans's transport vehicle tho.I hope you are one day forced to ride a bicycle in Poland between November and April
>>538767565neat
Same location. What 12 years of EU funds + endemic corruption brings. Not great, not terrible. >>538770029Well, obviously they are only viable if the city takes bike lane construction and safety seriously. In Finland, kids bike to school in -20c snow in the winter.
>>538767851they're gentrifying the town!
>>538770433Dunno why, but I read that in Trump's "they're eating the cats" voice.
>>538770772Nice! Big fan of tall buildings with personality. NL/DK has a lot of them.
