Comments by "Minerva\x27s Owl" (@HighFlyingOwlOfMinerva) on "The Aesthetic City" channel.

  1. Looks like you didn't bother watching the video, eh?
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  2.  @LO-dm6uf  "muh Disneyland, muh gentrification" Let's be real here, if you support open borders and then complain about these so-called issues, you don't deserve a home at all. Like I said, they are non-Europeans living in places meant for Europe, and people really *would" rather live in Disneyland than in Yugoslavia 2.0. Cry about it.
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  3.  @LO-dm6uf  Yeah, you can continue to ignore me and pretend like you never read my comment, but it's the cold hard truth. If you support open borders, don't complain you can't get a house. Sucks to be you, Felicia.
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  4. I can feel the pretentiousness dripping from this comment. Some counterpoints for you: 1. Beauty is objective - you just have no taste. 2. All the goals of this project have been reached - a pleasant space to live in, while looking good to do so (because yeah, people prefer "kitsch" over depressing ;) ). 3. What "future" are you even talking about? Giant ugly glass & steel skyscrapers or concrete appartment blocs with no heart to it, purely meant to dump as many people in them while offering as little living space as possible? That "future"? Have fun living in Yugoslavia 2.0 - we want none of it, however.
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  5. There are multiple places in New Jersey as far as I'm aware, but people tend to not go there for other reasons, if you catch my drift.
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  6. Oh no, general improvement is bad!
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  7.  @duvine3882  Oh no, non-Europeans had to live somewhere else. Terrible! If they want, I can help them out in getting a one-way plane ticket back to their host nations. That way, they don't need to suffer at our hands, and neither do we at theirs.
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  8. Wait until you find out that towns like Poundbury, Brandevoort, Heulebrug and more exist... equally beautiful.
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  9. Imagine believing this despite the fact that it still exists today.
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  10. Maybe ask yourself first: what kind of people were they even? Are they from Europe? No? Then remigration will solve the problem. ;)
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  11. A better argument would've been that the NatSocs destroyed most of Europe's beauty, but then again so did the Allies and on a grander scale. Another argument would be that Hitler himself did not like the "exaggerated" facades built during the Gothic, Baroque or Classicist periods and instead preferred building sleek Stripped Classicist buildings, as can be show in the Neues Reichskanzellarei and Volkshalle, to name two. Same for Fascism really, and a lot of buildings there still stand today and confirm this fact.
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  12.  @the_aesthetic_city  Don't forget Heulebrug also! I feel like that place could use some more recognition. And for a bonus: Westergouwe, Gouda. That place has very unique houses built in the form of a dijk, which is absolutely worth checking out.
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  13. Great video and thank you for covering this lovely example! Though I do want to give a quick disclaimer about the sponsor: I heard BetterHelp is a bit dubious. I don't know the precise backstory around it, but it and Hellofresh have gotten quite the reputation so I'm giving you that quick heads up for the future. Can't wait for the next one already! :)
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  14. That's actually not really happening on such a large scale anymore, luckily. There are more and more projects which are better than what was being made 40 or even 20 years ago.
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  15.  @TwistedHigh  Oh I have, it is overwhelmingly ugly still, especially in the west. Doesn't mean that things aren't changing there either. ;)
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  16. You sound really fun at parties.
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  17.  @marcionphilologos5367  Thank the Gods you people are not in charge of designing buildings, or we'd all be blackpilled and depressed weirdo's.
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  18.  @marcionphilologos5367  Good thing our ways are winning ground. Your blackpilling and angry Chud-tier screeching will soon be against a mirror, since no one will listen anymore. The future is the past, not ugly modernism. Cry about it.
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  19.  @christiankruse1970  Yeah, I know. And in the U.S., those "mixed use" area's are often notorious for high crime rates and other reasons, sp that doesn't help with the negative perceptions. Regardless, luckily the tide is shifting so people don't have to associate one with another anymore and realize that Europe has both good and bad area's that look like this, so that argument doesn't hold up. And then there's the time and health benefits, increased ease of access, more safety, better economic value of the area and so on.
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  20.  @aristeon5908  Cool, I don't care if you do - they are horrid places to live in, full of ugly concrete skyscrapers and neon lights that blind you. An average European city or even village feels more pleasant than any of that fake and vapid CONSOOMER-style architecture and planning. Same goes for any horrid American cities.
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  21.  @aristeon5908  "MUH individuality" Stop being utterly cringe and stop acting like a petulant manchild for 5 seconds okay thank you. Also no, they're not great places to live in, far from it. They're sprawling urbanite hellholes filled with ugly appartment complexes and a "backwards" nation like Malaysia with its nature is more pleasant than any sprawling hellhole full of neon lights and 500 appartment blocs everywhere will ever be. "If you don't like a city or area don't move there, but stop insulting people who like that!" Oh this sentence is DRIPPING with irony. "I can insult your styles and cities all day long, but don't you dare insult mine!" I'm amazed you haven't used any stupid buzzwords like racist yet, too.
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  22. En natuurlijk komt Rotterdam meermaals voorbij (ook al wordt het hier langzaam iets beter). 😅 Good video, though I would've liked to see some more visual examples of the innovative buildings because I certainly know they do exist. More and more are being built today all over Europe and pages on Twitter and Instagram related to architecture revival post 'em. I'm sure you've seen the images before. ;) Something that also would've helped is showing the historical examples of many traditional styles, as there are a lot of them, which could've helped to strenghten the 'modernism ironically ends up copying the same despite trying to be "new and hip". I'm shocked with how many there are, even. Modernist styles have far less and they often end up looking very same-y, whilst traditional styles always have something similar but never feel same-y. I can recommend Wiki pages like 'Tijdlijn van de bouwkunst', as they have a lot of different styles. https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tijdlijn_van_de_bouwkunst Cheers!
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  23. Oh trust me, the RAF bombed many more places than just Dresden at the time, this is just the most known example. Frankfurt, Berlin, Ludwighafen, Stettin... the list goes on really. And none were military targets BTW, so it is very clear what their real intentions were.
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  24. Based.
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  25. Ah, Brandevoort. Prachtige plek, en ondanks dat de plaats vrij ver van mijn woonplaats is, kom ik er graag! Mooie video, bedankt voor het maken! Jammer dat er niet meer goede voorbeelden zijn... het beste voorbeeld wat ik kan bedenken is die nieuwe uitbreidingswijk in Gouda met de naam Westergouwe, die al huizen in vergelijkbare opzet bij de Oost-Ringdijk en een uniek ontwerpconcept heeft, maar meer eigenlijk niet. https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Westergouwe
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  26.  @the_aesthetic_city  If you do so, look into Hans Kollhoff's designs. He makes very pleasant traditionalist buildings, some of which have been skyscrapers (Statendam in Rotterdam, JuBi building in The Hague, Foortse Towers Vathorst in Amersfoort and of course Main Plaza in Frankfurt to name a few). And, of course, there's the pinnacle of beauty - the skyscrapers built in New York.
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  27. Solution: make this the standard way of building and get rid of the concrete Yugoslavia-tier blocs so that this problem filters itself out over time. Great idea!
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  28.  @vovixs.567  There is no such thing as "subjective beauty": you just have no taste.
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  29.  @vovixs.567  Whew, now THAT'S what I call a cope for the ages. Now tell me, in what building do you live? In a beautiful one, or in a concrete Soviet-tier box? Because at least your cope would have a miniscule shred of sense if your answer is the latter.
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  30.  @windfall1849  Thanks for proving what side you're on, Communist filth.
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