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There was also an enormous urban population boom in the heyday of capitalism, late 1800s early 1900s, and architecture was absolutely glorious. It's really not
by trgn 3y ago
There was also an enormous urban population boom in the heyday of capitalism, late 1800s early 1900s, and architecture was absolutely glorious. It's really not the post war population boom. It was the post war mindset, modernism, a spiteful iconoclasm married to an infatuation with high technology (ie. All human experience must be mediated with the latest technology, a priori). Without that, our cities would have grown just as beautifully as before.
- pixl97 3y agoEh, it was an urban population migration after mechanization of farming. Population growth then still was not great nor anywhere near what happened later. This time was laying the roots of a future time where people didn't stay still and the world was moving at a fast pace, but it wasn't that world yet.