Communist Subways

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>>2305689
Not really. It's just that Stalinist architecture is very different from what came afterwards. Your generic commieblocks are from the 1960s and later, when all this style was declared "redundant".

>>2305689
Oh thats where the money went

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>>2305714
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And later period subway stations, even in Moscow, are shit as well. See picrelated (sorry for the watermark).

>>2305714
do the architect care about the landscape at all or was it changed? the surrounding looks ugly as fuck
there should've been a plaza or garden if you go by classical convention

I'm sorry but making a subway station look like a baroque museum is gauche as fuck reminds me of Saudi military baracks being plated in gold.

>>2305739
They loved their industrial look.

the mass bomb shelters need to look nice

>>2305689

Two words: Moscow Olympics.

G R I M on the surface
A E S T H E T I C in the subway.

Were they trying to symbolize Russia itself?

>>2305689
This is back when a city's transit system was a symbol of prestige. London started out with their tubes and other metropolitan cities around the world soon followed suit. Of course, the Soviets had to be better at everything than everyone else. And public transport is a very authoritarian left thing, so why not show your wealth in your subway?

>>2305739
Parks are so petit bourgeouis.

Seriously, though, I guess originally, in the 1930s to 1950s, there was some kind of a plan to rebuild Moscow in a unified style, but later it was all abandoned, and so Moscow remains the mishmash of styles it is now. It's not as bad as it sounds, though, and it's gotten much better in the recent years.

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>>2305755
Actually this fancy shit is from 30-50s, Stalin had a thing about A E S T H E T I C.

>>2305689
aesthetic more like kitschy

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Why did he have to die?

If western capitalist stooges didn't get in the way he would have made the entire world beautiful.

Russia had a long history of high art and architecture well before communism. They still maintain it in some ways.

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Russians were doing THIS while the rest of Europe was still worshipping in big grey monstrosities.

How is it even possible for one country to be so V I S I O N A R Y.

>>2305782
architect here, parks are important social public spaces as it generally improve the life quality of society as whole and was used for everyone, not only the rich, till today politicians who defends parks/public space/urban mixed use buildings are mostly socialist and left leaning

>>2305847
It was a joke.

>>2305847
and also it makes more sense for a communist/socialist country due to their nature to build grand project which can be used by everyone such as>>2305689 rather than making something like >>2305714 which can only be accessed by government officials, while letting the city fabric felt to decay

>>2305847
>architect thinks he's a city planner
heh, get back to playing lego, kid

>>2305882
Im both, aside from city planners who work for the government, most city planners do architecture, and even those government guys do consultation with us every now and then

I get what you mean though, there's the architect + landscape + city planner and then there's architect + interior design + fag shit

>>2305906
I was just meming you. I knew a guy who was an architect and he got REALLY pissed off if you said he wasn't qualified to be a city planner.

>>2305847
You're completely missing the point of Stalinism, or any other totalitarian ideology, for that matter. The point is to make an individual feel like a tiny cog in the machine of the State. Your "socialist and left leaning" politicians have nothing in common with that.

>>2305689
Anything is better than the NYC subway which is fucking 3rd world by every measure.

>>2305952
Yeah, but street musicians

>>2305952
Get out, NYC subway is perfectly minimalist and utilitarian.

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>>2306006
It's the ugliest and dirtiest fucking thing on Earth

>>2306155
>mummy the walls aren't encrusted in gold laquer like my muh putinfu subways

Grow up. If you complained about sewer mains making some stations smell like shit maybe you'd have a point. You'd don't notice dilapidated walls during rush hour unless you go out of your way to notice them.

>>2306163
>can't cope with the fact he lives in a 3rd world city with 3rd world infrastructure

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>>2306163

>>2306185
NYC mass transit moves more people in 24 hours than most smaller countries have people. It's not pretty but it just weeks.
>>2306187
Blame all the brown people who consider literring a rebellious act against the oppressive white patriarchy or whatever. There are specially designed vaccume trains that are used every night specifically for shit like that anyway.

>>2305952
>don't waste money on pointless opulent train stations
>most stations are just ugly holes in the ground
>but be the only subway system IN THE WORLD to remain fully operational 24 hours a day 7 days a week
>some idiot calls this 3rd world by every measure

NYC subway also has a vastly superior map to most subway systems since it has major streets laid over it instead of a worthless silhouette of the city like Montreal or London's maps.

>>2306231
Buttravaged 3rd worlder

>>2305952
>Anything is better than the NYC subway which is fucking 3rd world by every measure.

What a ridiculous statement. "Waaaah the stations are dirty!" Yeah, because they fully serve a city of 8 million people, 24 hours a day, for the last hundred years, with a network extensive enough that people don't need or want cars.

>>2306253
>people don't want or need cars
>NYC road network clogged 24/7
>fucking turnpikes everywhere
>if you want to avoid it you have to ride the dirtiest subway on Earth with smelly niggers and Puerto Ricans

Glad I moved the fuck away.

>>2306293
There's really no point in having a car. They've become a complete meme. Driving is a chore doesn't matter if you live in midtown Manhattan or the sticks of Kentucky.

>>2306307
t. Puerto Rican insensitive to his ungodly stench

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>>2306187
>>2306155
>>2306006
I feel a bit the same about the Paris Metro. It really is an incredible network in terms of coverage. There's sometimes stops just 50 metres away from each other, it's a bit silly sometimes. Also there's the semi-underground RER regional trains that go right through the middle of the city and connect with the major underground stations along the way as well as at their own stations (which are the largest underground stations in the world). London is laughably only just starting to build the crossrail network.It's also really cheap by Western Euro standards. I pay 70 (half of which is paid by my company) per month for unlimited travel within a huge area.

The downside is that the Paris metro can smell so so so bad. Also, every single fucking day there are hobos sleeping and pissing there and asking for money on every carriage.

>>2306420
Small and cozy meyros are the best, like in Prague.

>>2306420
Is the Paris metro really as hellish as people make it out to be or is it people just surprised that there are blacks/Arabs in Paris?

>>2306293
racism is against global rule 3

>>2306477
Was there just last week, other than a little confusing at times it was alright. Only was there for one day though.

t.exchange student taking advantage to play tourist

>>2306420
Plus now you've got the pollution discounts.

>>2306253
The Moscow Metro serves a city of nearly twelve million and isnt close to being unpleasantly dirty

>>2306477
>>2306477
Not at all. 4chan memes Paris really fucking hard. Mostly because most of the memers have never been for more than a weekend (if at all). There's tons of non-white people (if that really disturbs you) around the Gar du Nord area. Everything gets much cleaner the further away from there you get.

If you're only going to go to touristy spots you will only ever get the worst experience of Paris. The same applies to every capital city ever.

>>2306995
Americans don't maintain their public transport because they think it's for poor people.

>>2307075
Americans are poor people.

>>2305741
i like how it looks... the sense of openness and scale can be felt from the pictures. it would lighten up my day desu over a plain functional subway platform.

>>2307082

>his country hasn't misplaced developing urban communities for highway overpass I50 exit A295-B295 W (Maple Ave.)

>>2306204
It's not brown people per say, its young people who trash things up. Young people have no discipline, you used to be able to beat your kid if they misbehaved, now they give you 'time out' or 'get grounded' or certain 'privileges revoked'. Kids these days are behaving like Showa era juvenile delinquents. The type you see in Akira.

>>2305806
manlet

>>2305829
you do realise it was built by an italian architect like the rest of the Kremlin

>>2306632
>>>reddit

>>2307672
yes that is where you should go

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>>2305829
you need to go inside to see the marvel of god

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>>2307775
Next year in Hagia Sophia.

>>2305689
Most generic commieblocks are peripheral residential areas made to accommodate migrations from rural areas to cities.

>>2306995

The Moscow metro has less than half the stations as the NYC subway, and it doesn't run at night.

>>2305689

A couple look good but most of those are so tacky, like the inside of a cathedral, tasteless.

>>2308149
Are you trying to stroke the Jewish saying "Next year in Jerusalem"?

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>>2305689
>>2305714

>Tfw you realize that if the soviets never abandoned Stallinist architecture and instead built more with it as inspiration the union would still be alive and functioning today.

>>2308329
Kys