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Can't invoke history where there is none. Can't create history when most of the city is running off to other places for those "rustic, authentic" experiences. C
by BlargMcLarg 4y ago
Can't invoke history where there is none. Can't create history when most of the city is running off to other places for those "rustic, authentic" experiences. Can't build with a bit of chaos when prices have to be kept low, density high and requirements must be met which naturally prefers prefabs and cheap, stale-looking materials.
The criticisms are valid, but people haven't exactly given Almere a chance to be anything other than hypermodern, either.
- jacquesm 4y agoIf they had taken a more organic approach from day #1 I think that could have been avoided, but then the growth would have been much slower. It quite literally feels like a city designed behind a drafting table instead of something that matured over time. And that's not something that you can buff out a few decades later.
- BlargMcLarg 4y agoYeah, you see almost the exact same in new streets and new sections of existing cities. They aren't made with the idea of being organic or adding a little chaos to simulate it. They are made with the intent of putting down prefabs in the cheapest way possible while still hitting requirements and budgets. Every new project around say, Utrecht, has the same "hypermodern" feel to it. Little contrast, straight lines, visible patterns, flat and rectangular. They try to add a little more chaos to it (probably to avoid being compared to Almere) and some more greenery, but it's a far cry from the old European city look.
- jacquesm 4y agoThey even try to imitate that (and fail) for instance, this area in Beverwijk: http://overall-pictures.nl/portfolio-3/straat-fotografie/beverwijk-broekpolder/ http://overall-pictures.nl/portfolio-3/straat-fotografie/bev...