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You must not travel a lot. There are huge numbers of historic villages and towns with original or very old architecture. If we were dealing with survivorship bi
by netbioserror 3y ago
You must not travel a lot. There are huge numbers of historic villages and towns with original or very old architecture. If we were dealing with survivorship bias, we should expect essentially random buildings scattered around cities, not entire towns or contiguous historic districts.
- kouru225 3y agoAnd these were only for the very rich. The poor had wooden shacks that deteriorated quickly.
- alistairSH 3y agoI was thinking of iconic buildings - cathedrals, etc. Thinking of old towsn in the UK, many are picturesque, but those old cottages tend to have limited windows and low ceilings make them far less functional by modern standards.
- skinner927 3y agoYou may want to double check that the historic buildings you see in historic districts are actually, uhh, historic. Historic building codes have been around for hundreds of years in some areas and many of the buildings are rebuilds and ones that didn’t fit the mold have been rebuilt. Not that modern concrete architecture is not a blight on our cities, but not all historic buildings were originally as charming as we may see them today.
- __loam 3y agoPeople give Brutalism a lot of shit but I think the buildings have a certain utilitarian charm. I have heard that concrete can be very unsustainable and counterintuitivly actually hard to maintain though, so I suppose it's a good thing it's going out of style.