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tonnes of suburbanoid seethe inside! Should we nuke the suburbs or just demolish them and plant potatoes in their place?
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I clicked on this thinking it would be a link to a cringey Reddit post, but here we are.
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Same, commies be sneeding i guess
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idio has very strong opinions on urban planning. I mentioned that Houston was doing well at getting homeless people off the streets and it diverged into a whole thing about how he hates sprawl.
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I’ve never been to Houston, but ever since discovering http://swamplot.com/ (rip) I’ve been fascinated with it and need to make a trip down there.
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I recently visited Houston and I loved it. Probably my favourite American city outside of NYC (mostly because I hated SF despite it being beautiful).
The only thing that Austin and San Antonio have over Houston is the Bird scooters, which are dope when you're tourist. Also the heat is slightly more bareable in Houston than the other two.
The central part of the city near the bus station has some hoodlum black homeless people but otherwise it's very friendly middle class black people who make the city fun.
The black people also have an obsession with Slingshots 3-wheel motorcycles there:
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Houston is the worst. I'd say nuke it, but it's a waste of perfectly good plutonium. It already looks like fricking Hiroshima...
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Last time you posted that pic Enrico pointed out how that's really old and it no longer looks like that.
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Unfortunately from that angle you can't see the hotel that has a lazy river in the shape of Texas which is obviously the pinnacle of architecture.
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Still looks like shit, tbh. This is just a perfect illustration of burgers turning their own cities into wasteland voluntarily.
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Oh yeah, it's still soulless but nowhere near as bad as the sole before picture.
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Honestly that pic is intentionally egregious. It shows downtown without any of the actual skyscrapers (which are all out of shot on the right). There are shots of downtown that are significantly less soulless.
That said he's right about the sprawl. Houston is a terribly-planned city by any metric.
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Left looks like a sim city from before the titles were numbered
e: now i wanna see the subterranean view
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That still looks bad. Only different is there are more skyscrapers where the buildings are
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Imagine hating America's most affordable major city. Urban Planningcels deserve the rope.
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it isn't even like living in a city
it's like living in 40 square miles of a suburb
also, Houstonians live there
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If I go I’m renting an old Cadillac on Turo with those wire wheels that stick out three feet.
I actually did one of the first ad campaigns for the Campagna T-Rex, which is like the predecessor to the Slingshot.
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Cops will 100% pull you over and try to get your to violate your 4th amendment to search for drunks and chances are the dog will alert and peg it on you
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they're called swangas, just FYI
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Wtf? It’s a literal swamp how is the heat better?
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Bus station is bad but some of the residential areas are hotbeds of crime. When my family first immigrated here we made the mistake of living in one of those shittty places. Never again
There also aren’t many attractions in Houston. But it’s suburbs are arguably the best place in the country to raise kids. Plenty of highly ranked schools like in Cali and Northeast, but there is less crime and you aren’t forced to put ur kids in a private school to give them a chance. The Asians and whites aren’t libcucked so you don’t get r-slurred rules that breed criminals and focus on ‘equity’. At the same time, the culture is less ‘try to get ahead at all costs and frick everyone else’ that is prevalent in other places.
Housing prices are also nice. Anywhere from 300k- a few millions but you get great sized places (sometimes referred to as McMansions but they are still nice houses). Worst thing is the property taxes which knock Houston suburbs to 9/10
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Swamplot was a great site. You can get a lot of the same stuff direct from the source on HAIF too.
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Yeah but then I have to read stuff in legacy forum format.
There are so many interesting drama happenings I’ve found on different forums but it takes days to find the relevant info since it’s always 500 pages long, plus signatures, and usually one of those crappy forum interfaces that automatically sends you to the next page when you try to scroll up or down and also hijacks your phone’s audio with a Toyota/Lexus ad.
Is there like some place where we can plot killing whatever ad agency thought it was a good idea to have auto play Toyota Lexus videos that take up half the page and follow you as you scroll, with some Casey Neistat looking bro driving a boring butt LC500 but it’s mostly his face and not even the car?
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You should make /h/plot. It'd be a plot hole.
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This is literally the only non-boring Lexus without an F badge
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It’s still a Lexus.
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Yeah but it looks nice, has a V8 that sounds decent, and the interior is pretty cool
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Swamp lot was a great read, I miss it
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What was his argument for instead, building dystopian mega-blocks?
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The commie alternative always seems to be housing projects. They should have preserved part of Cabrini Green to use as an educational tool/museum like they did with the Killing Fields.
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I think this post is his counter-argument.
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Good i fricking hate sprawl
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No different at this point. That pizza r-slur is just reddit top comments verbatim.
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Replace them with giant grey concrete blocks, komrade.
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This, but unironically.
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👏BRING👏BACK👏BRUTALISM👏
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Commies and their fricking public spaces
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Unironically the best. Miles better than a dead suburb, stratospherically better than massive high risers with highways in between, and better than cramped old euro city where every time you look out the window you see 70y/o guy living 5m across the street tan his balls.
Solid density for the seething libs who care about that shit, nice green space where kids can kick a ball and grandmas can plant flowers, trees cooling everything down and freshening the air...
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Wrong.
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Such is life
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Is this what suburbanoids actually think? lmao. Cats from dreary krushchevkas (I grew up in one) are actually based and very stable geniuses
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If those buildings were made of brick, that photo could be mistaken for the Harvard Yard
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Holy shit you cute twinks think that's open space? All that hustle and bustle broke your fricking brains.
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This but absolutely unironically. Art deco, anything! Just please fricking end 'modernist' architecture .
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I wasn't being ironic, chud.
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Neither am I, chuddy
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So how does it look the rest of the day and without HDR?
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It's a render
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Lmao
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Brutalism is the communism of architectural design
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And that's a good thing.
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This, but unironically!
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They’re both good. :marseyexcited
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top houses 100's of people and bottom houses 1000's
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I choose differently
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They named a city after the fact that some people are too lazy to type out "you're" smdh
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RETVRN TO 𒋀𒀊𒆠
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Replace them with a single giant grey concrete block and "let" (read: force) the residents to use the now freed up lad to grow their own food
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So give people flats and dachas? Yeah, sounds based!
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No.
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What if the refusal to discuss is in itself discussion?
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It isn't.
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But is this not a discussion on what constitutes discussion?
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Nope.
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Oh, fair enough.
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This was like that Monty Python skit but shorter.
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Which one?
t. uncultured swine
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Commies be like: Now THIS is innovation
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I wont lie. I saw cars and thought to myself this must be a higher class favalya
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I thought you doxxed me for a while
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I recognize that building.
See you soon.
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hmmm I dont see any gum on the pavement, ill let you go without a beating THIS time
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When asians do it (except koreans) it's sovl
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Its spelt seovl dumbass
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I was told that all Singaporeans live in modern skyscrapers with forests planted on the balconies.
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roads haven't been pedestrianised
ground floor isn't mixed use retail
cars haven't been thrown into landfill where they belong
Not very urbanplanningpilled
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Bet you could set up a wicked laser light show in a place like that
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Why not put them on the roof? Also why does that one apartment have an AC?
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The slavcel malds at the sight of such beautiful and affordable homes.
All across the Slavic Wastelands, one phrase could be heard:
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@idio3 facedox:
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Frick! How did you get me?
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So...is he getting enough bussy in there?
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He is getting his state-allotted allowance of Bussy.
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Is that actually enough?
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No. The great Bussy forward has been an absolute disaster for Bussy production.
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Marsey availability is just mind boggling.
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Ataturk?
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