What's the most aesthetic civilization to ever exist?

greeks

Mesoamerican civilizations

1700s-1900s West Europe

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>>3138210
>didn't invent streets
>aesthetic

Probably some east Asia culture, pre-westernization.

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>>3138210
Close race between Mughal empire and Japan.

2010's USA

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>>3138300
*claps*

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>>3138278
Gonna have to agree with this, but Angkor Wat was also pretty aesthetic.

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>>3138300
Why do you defend this?

>>3138345
What's wrong with it

>>3138345

Surely this is shopped? No functioning architect, urban planner, or engineer could possibly think this totally unnecessary spiral to get home or visit those shops in the center was a good idea.

>>3138341
It's great architecture, no question, but OP was about civilizations as a whole. Not sure if the Khmer fit that.

>>3138345
What the actual fuck is wrong with American architects?

>>3138345
do you seriously have to drive the entire spiral road to get to the buildings at the centre?

>>3138391

Pretty sure it is. Look at the center circle then follow the road down. That road aligns perfectly with the road further down which ends for no real reason. Also look at the road out of that same one near the center which heads east at a ninety degree angle. That road would also allign but the street just ends without a sidewalk.

So yeah, while American suburbs are shit they aren't a labyrinth.

>>3138345
I wonder if future archeologists will think that the settlements were based around temples.

>>3138418

It's a shop. If any idiot presented this to any urban planner not drinking paint they would be fired.

t. Architect.

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>it's real

>>3138345
That's a blatant fucking shop, look at the road leading into the centre that just suddenly dead ends into half of a house. This shit would never be approved.

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the least aesthetic: German

t. German

>>3138504
well i've seen less aesthetic things
your pic looks pretty good

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>>3138345
>>3138489
>American suburbia

>>3138489
There's nothing wrong with those streets, not with the roads intersecting them. That's not the spiral from before.

>>3138519
>owning your own small house is the same as renting a tiny flat in an ugly towerblock from Daddy State

>>3138519
>even mass-produced low price housing is better in a capitalist society than in a communist one

>>3138530
>>3138532
>butthurt /pol/tards can't handle a joke

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Swiss take at Commie Blocks.

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>>3138563

>>3138560
>HURR its just a joke lmao

Get fucked leftypol.

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>>3138582

>>3138560
>Everyone that disagrees with my meme is /pol/

>>3138563
>>3138577
looks like a postmans nightmare

>>3138389
>>3138391
>>3138410
>>3138417

First thing that comes to my mind is safety. In the event of an evacuation due to natural disaster, that suburb would be a literal deathtrap.

>>3138582
so mad, wow
i can't believe how passionate you are about it

>>3138245
The fuck you're talking about?

>>3138560
>i was just pretending to be retarded!

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Spanish Moors

>>3138278
>Japan
Might as well say China at that point

>>3138855
>HURR lol dude just a joke lmao
>DURR i so funney lmao dude lmao dude lol

>>3138504
>Essen
yeah post the Detroit of Germany self-hating idiot

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For some reason I have always found the Babylonian buildings refreshing, mysterious and magnificent.

But I respect every cultures, may it be from past or present, architecture in its own way.

>>3138210
IMPERIUM ROMANUM

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>>3138210

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>Portuguese Manueline
It's Gothic, but less evil.

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Venice is like a place you'd expect to find in GOT or some shit

>>3138532

I'd rather live in a commieblock than a suurb. Suurbs are literal trash

>Need a car
>Shit for the enviornment
>Full of mentally ill cockssuckers that shoot up with heroin or shoot up their workplaces

I can think of no other kind of environment more undesirable and bad for human psychology and society as a whole than a suburb

>>3139789
Retard

>>3139827

Great comeback

>>3139445
It looks like someone dropped their coffe on the building and instead of painting over the stain they decided to make the whole building look like it was evenly stained with coffee.

>>3138563
>>3138577
So cool

>>3138345

"Bye kids, I'm off to drive eight miles to the store that is half a mile away from here"

>>3138421
That's what it is in a sense.

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>>3138220
this, mexica/aztecs especially

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>>3140084
forgot to also quote >>3139413

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>>3140086

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>>3140089

Nazi Germany.

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>>3140090

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>>3140094

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>>3140098

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>>3138210
Modern day.

>>3140086
>Never mind the horrifying blood stains on the stairs of the pyramids

>>3140149
Unironically this

Singapore now > Athens then

both are city states, and the former is more aesthetic

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>>3138210
Traditional architecture in South East Asia and the Pacific bears resemblance to Japanese architecture, particularly the early Yayoi kind. Perhaps this is an indicator of some relation or connection in the distant past.

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>no one mentioned Russia

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>>3140193
>he doesn't think living in a wonderous city built on the middle of a lake is worth occasionally sacrificing some war prisoners to prevent the cosmic skeletal futa rattlesnake dick demons from eating the sun and ending reality

look at this pleb

>>3140282
>spaniards take years to defeat a tribe of jungle people and conquer their mud hut villages
>claim they were actually a hyper advanced civilization with incredible cities and technology
ugh....sigh.....

>>3138582
It clearly was a joke you autist

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>>3140202
forgot the pic

>>3140304
>Aztect
>Rainforests

you're getting your jungle people mixed up.

>>3140304
There's litterally as much arceholiogical evidence for tenochtitlan existing as ancient cairo, rome, or alexandria, the ruins are litterally all over mexico city and there are a multitude of native tax records and land surveys that match up with said ruins and spanish accounts.

>>3140304
Incas were superior to europeans though.

>>3140393
Only in terms of fiber technology

>>3138219
Fpbp

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>>3140413
does anything else matter?

>>3138245
that's a palace not a city

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Moorish and ottoman look pretty cool desu

>>3138210
Renaissance and enlightenment Europe.

>>3140413
In everything.

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>>3140304
I cannot imagine how ignorant or in denial someone would have to be to make a statement like this with confidence.

>>3140514
There's an anon I keep running into on 4+4chan's /v/ that insists every ruin or city behond muddhut tier in the americas was built by an independent population descended from the solutreans seperate from actual native americans/mesoamericans/andeans.

>>3140193
>horrifying
Christcucks are easily frighten

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>>3138410
>>3138417
>>3138421

>>3140551
This "WE WUZ EVERYTHING N SHEEIT" attitude is obnoxious as fuck. Doubly so when you consider that these are the same types of people that would disparage native achievements in most other contexts.

>>3140551
actually white skinned bearded "gods" and their followers are said to have brought high civilization to mesoamerica (Quetzalcoatl) and the andes (Viracocha), erecting megalithic buildings, bringing agriculture, math astrology, teaching math, astronomy, geometry, medicine...

So who WUZ that?

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>>3140796
Except civilization in mesoamerica predates quetzalcoatl as a god existing in that pantheon, and quetzalcoatl was green or blue skinned, not white

>>3140796
Either a greek or their imagination

>>3138300
This, but unironically

>>3138863
The images before that post are of cultures that didn't have the concept of streets, and built everything bundled together, and walked on roofs.

>>3138345
I seriously thought this was a screenshot of Cities Skylines.

>>3139789
Did you try not living in a shitty one

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Germany, next question.

>>3138408
Why not? The Khmer empire was pretty cool.

>>3143048
Lol no

>>3138519
God I fucking hate suburbs. It just looks so fake and gross. I would literally rather live in a fucking Housing Block... by a landslide...

>>3140796
Not knowing Quetzalcoatl being white refers to his title the White Tezcatlipoca, refering to the color of his cardinal direction (Aztecs assigned colors to directions). I suppose theres blue people too since there is also a Blue Tezcatlipoca.

>>3138532
>implying there's no Housing Blocks in Western Europe
>implying there's not low-cost mass housing in the U.S.

>>3138408
They got topless qt's so good enough for me.

>>3143048
those male clothes look goofy as heck

>>3143048
...Correct!!

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minoan/cycladic

>>3140193
Don't worry about it, what're you a cop?!?!?!

>>3143629
>cycladic

Uhm nah...

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>>3143654

>>3143666
yeah that's not aesthetic

>>3140564
Kek

>>3143539
t. assmad frenchposter

>>3142723
They're all fake and gross dude...

>>3143582
Kek

>>3143666
>>3143668
Those look like the Romanian idols and they are aeshetic

>>3139573
that's that CSGO map

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>>3138226

>>3138334
I'd live there just for the surrealism desu

>>3138530
>owning
you'd be lucky these days unless it's some jobless shithole small town

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>>3138563
Reminds me of Park Hill

>>3138345
>tfw live in the middle of a golf course subdivision
>there's pretty much 2 rows of spirals
>takes 35 minutes to walk to the store
>have to walk a mile and a half to get there if you go on the sidewalk
>it's only 2000 feet (.6 km) from my house
Sometimes I completely loathe this country

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>>3140252
Ah, yes, such beautiful harmonious concrete

>>3144431
>stacks in the town center
shitty town planning desune

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>>3139573
Braavos is literally Venice with a magic Colossus of Rhodes.

>>3139789
Suburbanites have better mental health than citytards.
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/does-city-life-pose-a-risk-to-mental-health/

>>3144477
>that bullied island next to the aqueduct that no one built a bridge to

Western Civ in the Belle Epoque.

After that, war and modernism fucked with our collective psyche, and """"""""artists"""""""" got bored with beauty because it was too achievable.

>>3143824
Literally nobody rents a house in the suburbs.

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>>3138226
>1700s-1900s East Europe
FTFY

>>3143629
Aztecs were basically cooler minoans

see
>>3140282
>>3140098
>>3140094
>>3140090
>>3140084