Why do we live in such ugly houses?

[Sarmatian]

Всем хаятелям "тупого совка" посвящается.

[Crimean]

Всем хаятелям "тупого совка" посвящается.

Так поднимем же наши бокалы за товарища Сталина возрождение мыловаренного производства из натуральных ингридиентов!

[Ülev]

[Ülev]

0:45 (2:07) - 6 (and next)

[Crimean]

^
Five-story buildings (especially brick) are better than modern high-altitude anthills.
1) Five floors do not put pressure on the psyche, in contrast to 25.
2) The courtyards between the five-story buildings are full of trees, not cars.
3) Tenants are few and they know each other.
4) Ease of extinguishing fires.
5) The quality of construction of old buildings is higher.
This video is propaganda of predatory renovation. And again a man of a certain nationality.

[Ülev]

but those pyatoetazhki (five-story buldings) are in the center of a enlarged/sprawling city/-ies now, so someone wants to earn some extra money maybe
(in reference to the removed thread also)

[The Lawspeaker]

They are ugly for the same reason that our flat boroughs are ugly: they were built hastily to fulfil an immediate demand for housing in a post-war period when much of Europe was a smouldering crater. It's, essentially, emergency architecture that served its purpose but which has run its course and has the end of its lifetime. Plus: on both sides of the Iron Curtain, we had some idiotic planners that didn't just want to remodel cities but to reform society itself (be it in the form of La Corbusier or the foolish notion of the New Soviet Man).

[Crimean]

They are ugly for the same reason that our flat boroughs are ugly: they were built hastily to fulfil an immediate demand for housing in a post-war period when much of Europe was a smouldering crater. It's, essentially, emergency architecture that served its purpose but which has run its course and has the end of its lifetime. Plus: on both sides of the Iron Curtain, we had some idiotic planners that didn't just want to remodel cities but to reform society itself (be it in the form of La Corbusier or the foolish notion of the New Soviet Man).

The house in which I lived 25 years.
"Stalinka", 3 floors. Still good enough.
http://wikimapia.org/#lang=en&lat=44...a-Radianska-32

[The Lawspeaker]

The house in which I lived 25 years.
"Stalinka", 3 floors. Still good enough.
http://wikimapia.org/#lang=en&lat=44...a-Radianska-32

It needs some work: fresh paint, new balconies etc.

[Crimean]

It needs some work: fresh paint, new balconies etc.

The whole Crimea needs it.
And not only Crimea.