Comments by "Helen Trope" (@heliotropezzz333) on "The Lunatic Responsible for Destroying Every Beautiful City in the World" video.

I don't like ugly modern buildings but I have to say that post war buildings were built cheaply because there was a lot of wartime bomb damage to repair at a time when Britain was bankrupt and the intentions were good, to give people who'd lived in pre-war slums a warm place to live with indoor bathrooms. There's less excuse now for ugly buildings. Modern planning laws (relaxation of, or lack of enforcement of) must bear more of the blame. My favourite houses are Georgian ones - the space, the light, the symmetry, the materials, the decor, the domestic comfort. In modern times there were some very fine houses built in the 1930s but they weren't affordable by most people. Don't forget that in medieval times most people lived in muddy insanitary and cramped conditions. London architecture did not survive the plague and the great fire. The architecture you refer to to was built after the great fire I'd love to have seen and experienced medieval London but when most of it burned down in the great fire in 1666, London ceased to suffer from the plague and the rebuilt London was also beautiful in a different way and more solid. One problem in London is that tall buildings are often built with gulf oil money by nations that have different architectural tastes and no feeling for the traditional beauty of English style architecture that already exists there. Tower blocks are not suitable for families to live in and most of them will eventually lose value and be a 'hard sell' but by then the developers will have walked off with their profits and the environment will have been uglified.
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