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I'm actually quite the opposite. With every day bringing more and more construction. Tearing down of historically important buildings for new contemporary cond
by at-fates-hands 6y ago
I'm actually quite the opposite.
With every day bringing more and more construction. Tearing down of historically important buildings for new contemporary condos and gentrification - cities have lost their soul to me. Its not there's nothing new to discover, for me, its the replacement of places people once wanted to go to.
I actively seek out abandoned places now. I try and think about what it was like when it was new, people bustling about. Or that abandoned mansion. How did those people live? Can I imagine what it was like to live in a huge house like that?
We have such a disposable culture now - architecture included, it has prompted me with a sense of nostalgia to seek out what has been left behind and why.
Vice did an incredible job in their series "Abandoned": https://vimeo.com/182703618 https://vimeo.com/182703618
- asiachick 6y agoI'm mixed on that. I love neighborhoods with lots of tiny mom & pop stops and am sad when they get torn down and replaced with a modern building that usually gets filled with chain stores. This is common in Tokyo. On the other hand I mostly dislike SF's old houses that have 1 bathroom for 4 bedrooms, creaky warped floors, paper tin walls, single pane glass, bad insulation, and are missing many modern conveniences. And I hate that the city doesn't build up ⬆
- astrange 6y agoGentrification is what happens when you don't tear down old buildings for condos. The old buildings let fewer people live there, and therefore only the rich lived in them. Tokyo is cheap because Japan treats houses like used cars - it's actually cheaper to sell the house if you tear it all down first.