Urban planning

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>>72888784
I live in pic related in western Gothenburg. It was built in the early sixties (long before miljonprogrammet).

The unit consists of sixteen towers with a "spaceship" shape, as well as a long cane-shaped lamellar house forming a wall around the area.

In the middle, you can see a flat building with a tall prism on the roof. That's where they had the local kiosk as well as the jannie's office. When I moved there, this building was already abandoned. Now it's demolished and replaced by three new apartment towers.

In the upper left, you can see the boiler station used to heat the entire unit. It has a pretty futuristic shape. It's still there, but I don't know if it's in use anymore.

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>>72889094
When the boiler station was new, it looked like this up close.

It had these glass panels along the sides, through which you could see the machinery inside. The inside was lit up at night, so walking by must have been a pretty comfy experience.

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>>72889395
Sadly, they eventually decided to change the glass panels into metal plates, and now it looks like this. It's sad, but I still like it as it looks today.

Photo is from just a few days ago.

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>>72889505
Here's a pic of the whole thing, with the towers behind it.

It should give a good view of the spatial relations in the area.

Overall, I really like this neighbourhood. I like the corbuserian traits (like the rotor blade shaped parking lot and the towers surrounded by the loer long house), and I appreciate the futuristic feel it has to it.

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This is private people building a community. Notice the difference?

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Halle-Neustadt. It was meant as planned housing mainly for two nearby large chemical plants, but also as a general housing project. They started construction in 1964 and constantly added to it up to the German reunification in 1989, so for 25 years. By the 1980s it had housing for over 90,000 people. After the reunification more and more people gradually moved away and nowadays a lot of it is empty, and generally the only ones that stay are lower class and retirees who don't wanna move again this late in their lives. They're tearing down parts of it and renovating others. It's actually Germany's largest ever planned city. My grandparents lived it in for almost 30 years or so and my dad grew up there.

I wonder if it possible to concile urban planning with aesthetics?
Especially with nationalistic government who supposedly care about the image of the nation

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>>72889728
The difference is that you're cherrypicking meticulously maintained upper class neighborhoods, and planned cities on the other hand are intended for the broad majority of the population to live alongside each other.

>>72889962
>Those inward leaning roofs
Don't you get snow in the winter in that part of Germany?

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Private buildings in my city.

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>>72889962
t. poorfag

But anyway, these giant state planned areas aren't for the majority, they're for the poor.

Pic related, average small town, Ontario

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>>72890154
Government financed buildings aka commieblocks for new families or poor people in my city.

>>72890122
Not a lot. On average 50 cm over the entire winter I think, and it'll melt away multiple times inbetween, so realistically rarely more than ankle height at a time. The roof color is helping with that.

>>72890201
Society worked differently in socialism. Also ours are generally less segregated and inequal than yours.

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>>72888784
It's very common in eastern Oslo, togheder with the outskirts of a few other cities in Norway.
From the late 1940's until the present day, the state/other administrative units would the decide to simply build a new city part from scratch, complete with public transit and commersial centers.

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>>72890272
GINI coefficient

>Germany
30
>Canada
33

Sorry mate, that's hardly a difference. Socialism is a failed concept.

pic is public housing in Toronto

>>72890434
But our commieblocks weren't social housing. They were everyone's housing, unless you already owned a house or magically scraped together the building materials for one.

>>72890434
>Socialism is a failed concept
ok

>>72889094
>>72889395
>>72889505
>>72889649
Very interesting.

>>72890542
Norway is poor because of oil, all other sectors of their economy are weak by comparison and are only propped up by temporary resource sales gains. The Norwegian Kroner will fall in value considerably once oil demand disappears.

>>72890500
Completely agree, in East Germany housing was cheap and took almost no part of your income by comparison to West Germany

why are commieblocks so comfy?
>>72889332
like, so many people is sitting in those cells and enjoying their life in them, the scale of it makes it comfy for some reason

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>>72890793
Commieblocks looks nice and perfect only in the summer.
>tfw live on the 9th floor, it's +28 outside, 8pm. You open a window, hear the children playing football outside, you going to the balcony and open window, light a cig and see that somebody cooking shashlik on the balcony.
It happens every summer :э

picrel where I pretty much grew up

>green area
old "town", the original village the commieblocks grew up around

>orange one
commieblocks

>red area
service areas, today the mostly consist of shitty pubs/bars/casinos and some shops

>blue are
New and Hip Commieblocks™

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>>72892113
ffs