If those were in Vancouver it’d be like a trillion dollars worth of real estate, probably in better shape than a ton of million dollar homes.
The difference is capitalism charges 2 to 20 times their value. Truly the greatest system that meets the most people’s needs.
Capitalism never turns up a bunch of identical cheaply made houses
Capitalism will sell you a single ranch style home on an acre of land for an 80% markup.
Communism will build a thousand units vertically and just give them away for free
This is why Capitalism succeeds and Communism fails.
You all are telling on yourselves. You just read the headline. The article is about a book that is very positive about these buildings, both aesthetically and in regard to the ideology behind them.
Brutalist prefabs like that are actually found all over Western Europe as well. It wouldn’t surprise me if somebody in the comments would go “that pic is Paris, that one is from Cologne, that one is from London” etc., i’ve seen nearly identical buildings in all of these cities. Not only that, this style of architecture was originally developed by architects from France, from Switzerland, from the UK, from Germany. When Stalin planned entire cities from scratch while building up a new industrial base behind the Ural mountains, the project also involved city planners from Weimar Germany.
I think the only ideology that was really outspoken against any modern architecture were the nazis :curious-marx:
