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This creates an incredibly unbalanced view of Bucharest, honestly. Bucharest is a very diverse city, with a rich architecture, and the authors of the post seem
by drclau 5y ago
This creates an incredibly unbalanced view of Bucharest, honestly. Bucharest is a very diverse city, with a rich architecture, and the authors of the post seem to have focused strictly on poor neighbourhoods and communist-built apartment buildings.
Such a missed opportunity.
- Veen 5y agoI’ve never understood the fascination with communist-era and brutalist architecture among Western Europeans and Americans of a particular political persuasion. There’s so much more to Middle and Eastern European architecture than that. But I guess it’s not cool to go around photographing the beautiful 18th and 19 century architecture all the capital cities in that region have.
- golemiprague 5y agoI have found them both fascinating, the city centres are beautiful and the soviet era hoods also have their own charm and it is very interesting for someone who haven't seen it before. It is just natural curiosity and has nothing to do with political affiliation.
- TedDoesntTalk 5y agoI’m in this camp, so I can tell you one perspective. It’s got nothing to do with political persuasion. It has everything to do with novelty and curiosity of the strange and different.
- oblak 5y agoThe guy is not doing a piece on Romania on national TV. Photos look like they could've been made in any eastern block country. I don't understand the conscious need to present your own at its possible best at any opportunity. It's good that seeing the ugly make you feel uneasy. Ignoring it serves no good purpose
- baby 5y agoLooking at the pictures it looks like Bucharest to me. At least it looks like the Bucharest my friends are living in (not the downtown Bucharest that tourists might stay at)