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Before WW2, people were living together more often. Apartment buildings were less common. Today we are all atomized and individualized. Individual kitchen, bat
by jokoon 5y ago
Before WW2, people were living together more often. Apartment buildings were less common.
Today we are all atomized and individualized. Individual kitchen, bathrooms and living rooms are the source of the problem.
We feel rejected because our brain are naturally wired for a need of social interaction. It's a normal and legit emotion.
In earlier times, people lived closer together. We experienced prosperous large homes, but now unemployment and other jobs are making social life difficult.
In my view, neighborhoods should have a large living space for people to live together: read, talk, eat, etc. Since communism ended this concept of the commons died.
We are all depressed to go back home to rest in an empty apartment.
- laurieg 5y agoI remember in university I lived in a house with 8 people. We would all gather for dinner, often with a few extras from out of the house. It was such a wonderful feeling (and wonderfully efficient, you only had to cook once a week!). The idea of communal spaces needs to come back. I don't think it would be too hard for a 10-story apartment block to offer a communal area, especially as the shops that were often on the first and second floors are going out of business due to online shopping.
- ratww 5y agoDid it ever died? Most of my younger friends who live in large cities (in Europe and Latin America) live in communal apartments, and most of the older ones certainly did in the past, especially when in university.
- pessimizer 5y agoI'd like to see more architecture (and organizational/financial) oriented towards this. There were a lot of great experiments in the early Soviet Union that were hammered down by Stalin and his desire to imitate western opulence. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constructivist_architecture https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constructivist_architecture
- pessimizer 5y agoI agree. I wasn't built at all for the internet/phone/email things that people call friendships now. Long-distance friendships aren't even even friendships to me, or rather they're in maintenance mode until we live near each other again.