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"Anything I don't like is a commie" --Some guy on <strike>reddit</strike>HN. Post WWII USA did it first. The massive expansion of roads and single family housi
by pixl97 1y ago
"Anything I don't like is a commie" --Some guy on <strike>reddit</strike>HN.
Post WWII USA did it first. The massive expansion of roads and single family housing post war in the US, coupled with the baby boom demanded some of the largest growth in infrastructure seen in the world. We did it fast and cheap and ugly.
You don't need some vast conspiracy of communists saying build it ugly to control the people. You just need lowest contract bidding.
- Joker_vD 1y ago> Post WWII USA did it first. Pre-WWII USSR did it first, actually: they had a huge apartment building effort since the late 20s all throughout the 30s in the cities due to forced urbanization and industrialization. Most of it was obliterated during the WWII. Then, of course, there was post-war reconstruction of 1945-1953; and only then they got this post-1955 Khrushchevka style of buildings, with no design, no paint, no decorations etc.