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Originally Posted by CGII
You're right, pushing envelopes is stupid, let's all go live in a farcical past world that we believe was just tea and sandwiches in the park, let's divide all of architectural history into modernism and classicism, then blame modernism for all of its failures and praise classicism for all of its triumphs. We should keep cities in museums where they can no longer expand or change to reflect or accommodate diverse and dynamic populations and the values they hold. We should just pretend mistakes like the demolition of Penn Station never happened instead of learning a valuable lesson about civic pride, public space, detail and history. I'll bring the crumpets.
Paris is a spotlessly preserved bubble city which, through its rigorous preservation laws, has prevented any new construction to occur within the walls of the old city and driven up housing prices to the point that only the wealthy can afford to live there while the poor are left to manage in the fucked up suburbs. Vienna's famous, beautiful, and famously beautiful Ringstrabe plan was the result of the gentry carving up the city to accommodate their mansions, palaces, museums and theaters, a plan which has been vastly successful in keeping Vienna economically segregated. Florence was vastly renovated by Mussolini to reflect his fascist policies which included a selective reinterpretation of history and displaced thousands of lower class residents in the process.
So take your Paris, I'm positive you can't afford it. I will gladly take my shitty New York, that is, until the 'everything built since 1945 is shit' people like yourself prevent another 1,000' tower from being built in the world capital of change and experimentation, and then I'll be off to Mumbai or London or someplace where discourse isn't 'man weren't the 1800s great.'
Sorry for the snarky response. But it was a snarky topic.
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Good. I'm glad we can agree we're all capitalists here. Down with the European paradigm and democratic socialism! Believe it or not I'm not being sarcastic.
You know what... lets draw a comparison on a more national level. You can have downtown Houston, I'll take the quaint cobblestone streets of Beacon Hill.
One more final note of which I will not elaborate considering that my eyelids are beginning to flutter. I'm sorry to inform you, but traditionalism will endure the centuries. People will always value Bach, Mozart, Wagner, crumpets and civility over Lil Wayne, Cheetos and violent flash mobs, which as of late have been terrorizing unsuspecting urbanites (an esoteric reference which a few may know of).
Good night