Chains of the same minimalist apartment with no attempt at decoration. Supermarkets where they’ve spent years researching where to place products and how long to make this or that aisle. Restaurants with super minimalistic design choices which leave no impact on me.
Everything looks like the interior of a hospital, or a McDonald’s built after 2010.
I really fucking hate having to live near these places. Utterly soulless environment.
The development patterns of US cities has been deeply impacted by the highway system. The term ‘highway rash’ has been used to describe the sprawling patterns of chain retail and dining and gas stations, etc that form around highway entrances/exits. This further centers highways within developement patterns.
Modern gentrification of the last decades has resulted in a similar ‘rash’ kind of developement pattern deeper into older neighborhoods, often in a denser context. Maybe you could call it gentri-rash?
Steve Jobs and his consequences have been a disaster for contemporary architecture and interior design.
Counterpoint: modern Chinese cities are pretty nice
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anything of significance built after 1973 can invoke nothing but horror and a nameless fear
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there is a single digit number of good transit projects that have been built in the US since that date
in their gradual but ceaseless decay and corrosion even these constructions exude dread, a whisper of corruption and doomed things
places that look like hospitals
places that look like medical research buildingsmodern suburbia (which is where i grew up) is about 100x more soulless so this post kinda falls flat for me. would it be nice if my city weren’t almost entirely owned by the same 4 companies that own every other city? probably yeah. but it still beats the shit out of mcmansions with huge lawns and no trees
Death to America
tbh I feel that more about suburbia than anything. I like cities, but that’s also been my environment pretty much my whole life. while I don’t think rural areas are soulless, I don’t like them very much personally :p
I get what you’re saying about cities tho
I am used to feeling empty and soulless. Don’t know what a decorated place looks like. Maybe I am spending too much time living in a college dorm.
Chinese cities are simply insane with little thought given to anything other than mass transit. I love them.
Western cities yern for color and spice.
