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At the same time, "Master Planned" areas in actual Europe tend to be super horrible to live in, due to the detachment from what actually makes a place livable.
by flemhans 5y ago
At the same time, "Master Planned" areas in actual Europe tend to be super horrible to live in, due to the detachment from what actually makes a place livable. (And the transportation part is generally already solved in Europe).
Here in Copenhagen, everybody loves the 100-200 year old areas way more than the newly built ones.
- jusssi 5y agoWouldn't a 100-200 year old city area be much more likely to have originally been "Master Planned" than a modern development?
- Ericson2314 5y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Town,_Edinburgh https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Town,_Edinburgh and quite nice too. The undercurrent behind https://www.leidenmedievalistsblog.nl/articles/why-medieval-city-builder-video-games-are-historically-inaccurate https://www.leidenmedievalistsblog.nl/articles/why-medieval-... is our romanticized notion of the past actually under-emphasizes the planning that did occur. After those overzealous tower-and-park modernists, we did a big romantic counterrevolution in aesthetics that ironically justifies the even more current neoliberal weak state planning as the default. I recommend https://www.currentaffairs.org/2017/10/why-you-hate-contemporary-architecture https://www.currentaffairs.org/2017/10/why-you-hate-contempo... for trying to weave the needle right for yes planning but also yes a little relativism and humility.