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As always, blacks destroyed this city. Truth hurts

i was born and raised here this is so neat

As somebody who consumes mostly media from 100 years ago, it has become all the more visible how horrifying the world around me is. We have built hell.

This video brought nothing new to me, but I still watched it and loved it as I thoroughly enjoy anything that agrees with the opinions that I have made.

Joplin now also has EYE CREATURES

8:04 perhaps instead of "outdated", this future has become "unfashionable"?

lived here my whole life and never thought much about the historical architecture, to me its always been before and after the tornado. Also glad to see someone else also hates the cornell complex, it just does not fit its surroundings at all

I have had the exact same thoughts. I am grateful that you are here making these videos. Smashing the nail on the head with your fallen cities and growing cities series (even though you only have savannah). I will probably start my own youtube channel speaking about this to spread the word even further and its largely thanks to channels like your own.

In the western world this was inevitable. Our entire system, even pop culture and lifestyle in some cases, goes back to Industrial America and Great Britain

Your content is so good! I wish we were friends 😭

Just wondering what your take on Egypt's New Capitol City is if you dare to commit yourself. A from the ground-up dystopia that is so sterile and dehumanizing in my uneducated opinion. While most of the buildings are spaced apart (the only positive thing I can say), they are sterile and conformist on a grand scale. Not to mention totally out of place in a harsh desert.

GUY, ON MOST POINTS, YOU'VE SAID A MOUTHFUL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

People can like European walkable old town aesthetics and also ultra-modern sleek architectural too, why does it have to be either/or? Is the neoclassical revival style actually climate-proof and sustainable? Mere ideological agenda won't help it become widely adopted. If it's still labor intensive, there's no future for it outside luxury sector. And right now we need more affordable construction, not even less.

The way things are going I suspect.the most accurate prediction of thr future id either Mad Max or Judge Dredd.

7:23 Baltimore represent

They wanted to make homes "machines to live in" - and it resulted in homes that machines live in. They still build them.

The Missouri people are nice, I have one friend from it called Ryan Palmer that fuc.k.ed all my friends in Spain 👀

i ❤️ portland building

Then the Chinese took modernism and ran with it.

You're focusing on architectural styles, but what you should be focusing on is scale. The dystopian cities in those movies are massive, with the intention of dwarfing the humanity that live in them. Whereas the cities you seem to prefer are smaller scaled, with shorter buildings and more open space. Building scale is what makes a city either a pleasant place to be, or a nightmare to live in.

This is an excellent essay on the relation bewteen architecture, our perception of what the future is, and the hypothesis that the past was more advanced than our delussions induced by our neophilia . Thank you for your work

I think when you look at places like coruscant from Star Wars I would love to live there

Good vid. Thumbs up. I grew up there, and left after graduating high school in 1965. It was different back in the '50s and '60s. Seems like they've done a good job with some of the neighborhoods and downtown. I suppose there's lots of reasons for the demise of various towns and cities in the US. Cincinnati seems to be better off than many that I've seen, and it's apparently continuing to improve.

Joplin native here. As much as I would love for Joplin to be a booming city that takes care of and uses its historical buildings, I don't see a solution happening anytime soon. Memorial Hall is a good example. It's a performance hall that fell into disrepair, and instead of renovating it and making it better, they just built a new performing arts center. After construction started is when they put a proposition on the ballot to renovate Memorial Hall, except it was very unreasonable, so of course it got voted down. Now they are planning on demolishing it. It also seems like nobody is really using the new building. People want to perform in nearby Springfield (pop. 170k), or Branson, which is a popular tourist attraction, or Columbia, a college town. Not a lot of people who aren't local artists want to perform in Joplin. Downtown itself is pretty dead these days, and to be honest I don't see that issue being solved anytime soon. The only businesses that are downtown are really local restaurants. They're good, but obviously not affordable on a regular basis. Downtown is only ever busy during an event we host around 6 times a year. There are very limited apartments, and half of the area of downtown is parking lot. There is a singular parking garage but it isn't public. The only way I see it being possible to revitalize downtown is to move services that people use on a daily basis to downtown, but that would just mean moving those services from Rangeline or 32nd street and therefore sucking those districts dry as well. All of this, plus the fact that online shopping exists, so we no longer need as many stores or shops as before. What could easily be one large downtown district, with high rises instead of one story buildings, buildings instead of parking lots, and parking relegated to a few garages, is currently around 4 large business districts that are basically dead.

The neotraditional postsecular transhistorical metamodern era/paradigm is here.

What was learned wa priceless regardless of the ills. The historical building lost and the suffering of peoples is a sad thing. Let's learn from that and not repeat it or echo it in anyway including rhyming.

but japan built it in reality and nobody calls it ugly

One effect that's almost always overlooked is how buildings appear when juxtaposed with each other. Having sets of buildings in very similar styles, of similar height, with similar ornamentation, is a hallmark of the European cities chosen here as examples of appealing architecture. The buildings in today's modernist cities are individual edifices of different heights, colors, and styles, and the effect is often jarring and chaotic. More effort needs to be put into having an overall concept, not just of a skyline, but of how the city should appear from the ground.

They not cities they're nests.

not every architect is Hitler, but architecture is Hitler; buildings demanding submission that arrest logic with sophistry

Underrated video. I wish more people in my country watched it (I’m Brazilian).

Cost+ Labor + Materials + Maintenance. You forgot to mention those.

oh my god, how marvelously post modern. This was pulled out of consensus, without research. There is no man living who is in a position to tell us what a "1927 audience" would feel. it is the opposite thesis, the antithesis to this, that reveals the real world. "Oppressed masses" is a compound word, a package-deal concept, that people often say without ever having examined it. Anti-capitalism runs through cinema like the Silver Streak, and it has always been wrong, and demonstrably so, in every case, from A to Z. Shall we discuss how they have portrayed computers over the decades, in cinema, and how wrong they have been, there, too? No computer has tried yet to kill anyone... or take-over a mission...

Let’s all be honest. The west side is ehhhh lol

Without any considerations for cost, this video feels incomplete. Yes, I would love for cities to be aesthetically pleasant. But people need to be housed, hospitals and schools need to be built, businesses have to operate, all of this in a cost-effective and timely manner. As much as I loved being in Köln and gaped at the magnificent architecture of her cathedral, I also recognize that the reason I gaped is that the time as craftsmanship it probably took was astronomical, not to mention the actual cost to build it. We may frown at the brutalist appearance of commie blocks in Eastern Europe, but truth be told, it was an effective way to quickly build decent housing. Unless, of course, we want to go back to a time when the aristocracy have their lavish palaces while the peasantry live in mud huts.

You know God promised us a new Earth. There won't be any more buildings at all! People who want that will be in the lake of fire!

Green space is never a waste; it could be trees and shrubs however. 🌳🌲🌳

You will so be living in a shoe box!

Cologne Cathedral is hardly 'classical'.

Bladerunner: the future nimbys want 😬

Until modernism and onwards gives us something pleasing to the eye we will have to rebuild the past. We have no choice (literally)

Can you please make one on Rochester please 🙏. This is great 👍

New to your channel, great video, enjoyed it! 😊

Totally agreed! 👍

I must say that the dystopian city in Logans Run looks more visually appealing than the ugly, dark, dirty industrial cities in Metropolis and Blade Runner movies. The Logan Runs city had a considerable amount of greenery (inside and out), and a couple of lakes(5:53). The buildings are smaller, bright and do have some interesting curve designs. Not too brutalistic I might say.😊

Metropolis is the techno-authoritarian society that the elite has been building for a century. As an urban planner i was shocked at the hedonistic-technological-authoritarian mindset of my professors and fellow students. If I mentioned Brave New World I would suffer abuse.

Afirdable housing & commie blocks bad. Got it.

We literally have one of the largest historical districts in the nation and the largest collection of German and Italianate architecture.

I have never been more disappointed by the "future" not looking anything like any art ever predicted.

I teared up watching this