Comments by "alex smith" (@alexsmith-ob3lu) on "When Students Redesign An AWFUL Plan" video.

Bravo to the students! The students designed a far superior city block than the so called “professional planners” who designed the block like a two year old toddler.
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@ Lol, I love the cheap excuses all you modernists make up. “The craftsman labor isn’t there! It’s too expensive to design using classical proportions! We have population targets to reach.” Lol Not everything is about “numbers.” You can get that same figure of 6k or higher with old school architecture and designs.
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Modernist architects also tend to blur the lines between urban and rural, which all turns into an ugly mess that nobody likes.
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@ligametis So you want a nature band-aid to make up for the ugly and shoddy modernist architecture design?
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@ligametis Old towns are a bad example of planning? Have you forgotten that Central Park exists in New York City? Have you forgotten about the roadside trees, bushes, potted flowers and the grassy small parks of the streetcar suburbs?
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@marcusantoninus1838 Modernist architects represent the decline of technical-creative skillsets all over the West.
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@ Lol, the excuses you make for the so called “professionals” is laughable.
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@Redzwan Oh really? How did America go from the architecture of Neo-classical facades and Art Deco designs to the architecture of parking lots? You really think you can lie to me about wanting to spend time hanging around an empty parking lot?
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@Redzwan How much do they pay an astroturfer like you?
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@ If you want to enjoy more nature, then go live on a farm or a log cabin in the wilderness. If you want to live in a big metropolis like New York, you’d better have the high income to pay for a location like Central Park. Otherwise, you can enjoy small town life.
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@ Why are you asking me? I’m not a resident of New York City. Every society has its own needs and wants. I’m simply expressing how the majority of Americans feel and think of their urban areas.
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@ Most Americans cannot afford to live in Manhattan or downtown Chicago. You folks tend to confuse medium density streetcar suburbs, farm land, and small towns with very low density car dependent suburban sprawl. As time goes on, suburbia is becoming less and less common in the states.
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@ Utrecht is in the Netherlands, not America. The Netherlands is a tiny country and not a flop house for the world problems.
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@ Europe came up the idea of large city gardens, green houses and other beautiful architectural aesthetics to make their cities lively, unique and fabulous. Unfortunately right now, Europe political and financial class of people no longer relate with the ordinary European citizen. They’re as short sighted as the political class here in America.
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The modernist plan uses reinforced concrete and PVC materials. None of those materials can last more than 100 years and is not environmentally friendly to produce and dispose of.
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