Given the history of "projects" (think Cabrini Green or any of the other large housing schemes), this "city of the future" seems doomed right from the star. However, it fits well with the Globalist vision of people housed in cramped apartments, freeing the land of the blight of humanity.
 https://www.breitbart.com/middle-east/2 ... emissions/

Colonel Obyezyana wrote: ↑

7/28/2022, 6:30 am

Given the history of "projects" (think Cabrini Green or any of the other large housing schemes), this "city of the future" seems doomed right from the star. However, it fits well with the Globalist vision of people housed in cramped apartments, freeing the land of the blight of humanity.
 https://www.breitbart.com/middle-east/2 ... emissions/

Comrade Colonel Ape

Will there be a stoning room on each level and where will they keep the goats?

I remain
Dr. Chicago
 

Dr. Chicago wrote: ↑

7/28/2022, 6:35 am

Will there be a stoning room on each level and where will they keep the goats?

Good questions. Perhaps comrades will submit suggestions.

Cabrini Green just wasn't tried the right way.

And I hope the line points to mecca or the designer may be in for a sharp talking to with a broad axe.

Dr. Chicago wrote: ↑

7/28/2022, 6:35 am

Colonel Obyezyana wrote: ↑

7/28/2022, 6:30 am

Given the history of "projects" (think Cabrini Green or any of the other large housing schemes), this "city of the future" seems doomed right from the star. However, it fits well with the Globalist vision of people housed in cramped apartments, freeing the land of the blight of humanity.
 https://www.breitbart.com/middle-east/2 ... emissions/

Comrade Colonel Ape

Will there be a stoning room on each level and where will they keep the goats?

I remain
Dr. Chicago

The Agenda 21 Plan will not require stoning rooms or goat foraging. No travel will be permitted and all communications will be electronic therefore any subversive comments will be looped and will responded to by government catfishers. The subversives will believe they are spreading their "disinformation" but no one will be receiving it. Thank Allah, the goat milk, cheeses and meats will all be plant based replacements. The Jail, I mean Housing Project will benefit all while saving the Planet for the enjoyment of the deserving Party Members. As usual aesthetic free surgery will be provided by myself and other State approved Limb Removal Officials with our Trusty Saws, Rusty and his Clones.
 

Dr. Worddust wrote: ↑

7/28/2022, 11:51 am

The Agenda 21 Plan will not require stoning rooms or goat foraging. No travel will be permitted and all communications will be electronic therefore any subversive comments will be looped and will responded to by government catfishers. The subversives will believe they are spreading their "disinformation" but no one will be receiving it. Thank Allah, the goat milk, cheeses and meats will all be plant based replacements. The Jail, I mean Housing Project will benefit all while saving the Planet for the enjoyment of the deserving Party Members. As usual aesthetic free surgery will be provided by myself and other State approved Limb Removal Officials with our Trusty Saws, Rusty and his Clones.

The future looks brighter all the time!
 

P.S. Having lived in both New York tenements and projects as well as in Saudi Arabia, I am confident that this boondoggle massive project will fail eventually succeed gloriously.

It doesn't have the utopianism of The Venus Project but it strikes me as being just as asinine.

Most Equally Esteemed Komrads,

The concept of cramming large numbers of occupants into a crowded, homogeneous, anonymous environment in which the occupants have no stake or say just hasn't been tried by the right people.  Or is it the Left People™?  Anyway, long ago when I was a wide eyed, impressionable fry, I sat through a lecture at a Large Midwestern University™.  The lecturer was passionate about the ability of Architecture to change human nature.  He was such a talented architect that he had to join the university because no one would hire him to design a structure and no firm wanted him on their staff.  He was a font of knowledge. 

The lecturer droned on and on about the many virtues of the Pruitt-Igoe public housing project in St. Louis.  He heaped effusive praise on Minoru Yamasaki and the Housing Board that commissioned Pruitt-Igoe for their forward thinking concepts.  He lamented that the inmates occupants ruined everything.  I think he was actually crying when he admitted that Pruitt-Igoe had been razed. 

The lecturer then went on to extol the virtues of Cabrini-Green.  At that point it was still standing and ruining many lives.  I bet it was a sad day for him when the demolition began in the mid-1990s. 

Le Corbusier foisted similar results on cities in Europe with his large scale housing projects.  It was hubris like this that helped me decide to seek a career outside the confines of architecture. 

So what does a good Prog (or me) take away from this?  Do we conclude feel that massive projects that systematically remove the dignity/humanity from the victims occupants just don't work and that people might want to be more in control of their lives and environments?  Or do we think feel, "It just hasn't been done by the right people"? 

Swimming freely in the Current Truth™,

Red Salmon

PS.  I apologize for using so many of the People's Pixels™. 

Red Salmon wrote: ↑

7/28/2022, 10:00 pm

Swimming freely in the Current Truth™,
Red Salmon
PS.  I apologize for using so many of the People's Pixels™. 

Comrade, I'm pleased that you added the socialist-architectural perspective. For the sake of brevity I omitted it (and any discussion of Brutalism in government buildings).

As always, your commentary is welcome and I hope you have enough fresh water to keep you swimming in Missouristan (the Ministry of Hydromonopoly realized it is almost August and had to meet quota, so it dumped all of July's product all at once).

P.S. Use as many pixels as you want as long as you remain within the 1200x1200 constraint. 

Here's an example of the Soviet vision of urban living that became so common that the concept of projects caught fire in the USSA by the early 1950s. This type was made of stacked modules. Sometimes we'd see whole modules—toilet and all—on flatbeds in East Berlin when someone needed to relocate.

No regard at all for the squalor that ensued when people—uninvested in their dwelling—had no reason to keep the places tidy and in good repair.


 

I Believe that Governor Abbot may want to establish such a living space along the entirity of the Texas Border. Using Federal funding, Housing units could be stacked to an appropriate dangerous asthetically pleasing height.

To demonstrate our welcome to new voters, all doors will face to the south. Northern walls will be reinforced to keep new residents safe from harm, and separated from Ultra MAGA value spreading do-gooders and Fox News.

Ivan the Stakhanovets wrote: ↑

7/31/2022, 5:54 pm

I Believe that Governor Abbot may want to establish such a living space along the entirity of the Texas Border. Using Federal funding, Housing units could be stacked to an appropriate dangerous asthetically pleasing height.

To demonstrate our welcome to new voters, all doors will face to the south. Northern walls will be reinforced to keep new residents safe from harm, and separated from Ultra MAGA value spreading do-gooders and Fox News.

That's a great an idea! But wouldn't a half-mile wide "challenge strip" full of punji sticks placed four inches apart be a lot more economical? And why not stock the Rio Grande with alligators? Louisianastan has enough to spare.
 

Dietary preference, good Colonel. Dietary preference. 'Gators prefer French over Mexican...

And while the punji stick concept has merit, our domestic supply of wood is severely impacted by the current drought,and importing wood from out of state is becoming cost prohibitive (supply chain issues is a flimsy excuse for not getting up for work in the morning), and federal assets are prioritized to hauling baby formula to the USSA, and Nanski Pelosi to Taiwan.

Now, even if Nanski could be convinced to bring back a planeload of Punji's from the far east, she'd probably put them all in the Capitol lawn outside her window before sending one stick to Texazistan, but that's just a generalized guess based on observed past behavior.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/0 ... ing-happy/

This has been done before elsewhere—Didn't end well.