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How much of Copenhagen and the other Euro cities you’ve been to have you really toured though? There’s absolutely no doubt that those cities are just generally
by CPLX 4y ago
How much of Copenhagen and the other Euro cities you’ve been to have you really toured though?
There’s absolutely no doubt that those cities are just generally better designed and their core areas are far more aesthetic and well tended to than most American cities. But with that said the vast middle class areas of those cities where people actually live are a lot more generic and cookie-cutter than the parts people tend to see when traveling.
They have plenty of boring new construction too.
- quacked 4y agoI like to take explore the living areas of most Euro cities I've been to--Paris, Glasgow, Rome, Florence, etc. I spent a semester abroad in Paris about ten years ago and spent most of my time in one of the recently-built satellite towns, which was a mess of concrete and cheap modern buildings. The actual generic middle class areas are usually several steps above the American generic middle class areas, but I concur that most of the new builds are the same cheap, boring, new-right-now approach. It's quite depressing to me that so many people unthinkingly accept the premise that there's no time to build society to any standards that someone would be proud of or pleased about. It builds an apathy and almost a resentment to any sense of time or place within its residence. It's a lack of culture enforced by architecture. A good example is advertisements. They clutter every public space and make people simply ignore what they're seeing. "Just an ad." People will go hours through a city and never look up because they already know what's there.