I don’t get the individuality aspect. Do you mean the uniform aesthetic? You can still personalize inside, you know, the place you usually see where you live. I live in a beautiful altbau building in Germany and I couldn’t care less, like fuck do I care about the outside of the house, inside I cannot drew one hole into the wall without it becoming a day long project.
You cannot really express individuality with housing, unless you are building a house from scratch, which few of us do. We can hardly afford to rent anything, it’s not exactly pick and choose?
I’d argue insulation and soundproofing are bigger issues than individuality and making people miserable.
I feel like Vienna did it better. And in European cities that didn’t get bombed to shit in ww2 these houses look out of place and terrible. These houses weren’t build for the benefit of people, but for the benefit of production, like in good old capitalism. They often disregarded the enviroment and historic parts of the city
I don’t get the individuality aspect. Do you mean the uniform aesthetic? You can still personalize inside, you know, the place you usually see where you live. I live in a beautiful altbau building in Germany and I couldn’t care less, like fuck do I care about the outside of the house, inside I cannot drew one hole into the wall without it becoming a day long project.
You cannot really express individuality with housing, unless you are building a house from scratch, which few of us do. We can hardly afford to rent anything, it’s not exactly pick and choose?
I’d argue insulation and soundproofing are bigger issues than individuality and making people miserable.
I feel like Vienna did it better. And in European cities that didn’t get bombed to shit in ww2 these houses look out of place and terrible. These houses weren’t build for the benefit of people, but for the benefit of production, like in good old capitalism. They often disregarded the enviroment and historic parts of the city