What are your thoughts on "New Urban American" aesthetic?

What are your thoughts on "New Urban American" aesthetic?

I hate walking around areas simular to the ones shown in the picture, it makes me feel a faggy out of town interloper who says sorry to people for NO REASON, I remember crossing the street in one of these bug chasing hubs and some faggot in a 2023 Ford Focus APOLOGIZED and looked AFRAID because I was about to walk on the street. A normal person would have said nothing and kept on driving OR of they're feeling particularly merciful the wave at me to let me go, NOT look scared and beg for mercy while saying sorry like he accidentally spilled water on you THE PEOPLE THERE ARE FAGGOTS, i never seen a white tranny before i went downtown, I NEVER seen a skateboarder before i went downtown I NEVER seen I NEVER SEEN a man with piercings before i went to that cesspool of AIDS and miscegenation, i cross the street when I see people like that, I can't be associated with them at all.

This design is still infinitely better than the sea of parking lots and plazas that boomers built

trying too hard

Me: I love using my on-site pool in my apartment building and going to my local brewery
Some guy on twitter: the west has fallen..

how to develop cities without them all looking like this

Europe has figured that out centuries ago

Everything is ugly these days

Everything is built thinking solely on cost-benefit ratio

I hate them, maybe they look find in some flyover shithole, but on the east coast where we have tons of actual historic architecture like this, those McApartments are nothing but a blight.

Older buildings were built in a time where labor was cheap and ornamental elements didn't add much costs.

That is no longer the case. To build the more aesthetic buildings today would be very expensive, and trying to micromanage designs to suit aesthetic preferences just leads to a decline in construction production and higher housing costs.

Posts the home value for these and you'll see why this isn't a model that can be replicated.

creaky floors, cramped rooms, bad plumbing, and smells vaguely of cigarettes but its HECKIN HISTORICAL

no thanks, i'll take my spacious nu-apartment

What's wrong with that? I like it more than the burgerpunk strip filled 80% with parking lots.

looks like every new bar and building in st petersburg, florida. its cool that its becoming more dense, parking lots are being filled in, and transit is improving but they are also monolithic plastic looking eyesores that take up an entire city block. the contrast between the new apartment blocks and the older more varied and intricate architecture is glaring.

The funny thing is these sun belt apartment buildings are populated by people from the northeast.

Fundamentally a product of the collapse of social expectations for people to grow up and follow what we could deem a normal life path. The very idea of there being a "correct" way to live makes people very uncomfortable so everyone is on their own. Left to their own devices, people end up delaying marriage, avoid having children, and live in a state of arrested development. When I look at places like the OP picture (brewpub with BOARD GAMES! Axe throwing bar! Barcade!) it reminds me that I see way fewer children around in public than I did even 20 years ago. Also it seems like there's a lot more drinking.

The small historical apartments are basically illegal due to double staircase requirements in the vast majority of the country.

That being said, the bigger apartments will still be built in states with staircase reform (like Texas, Virginia, Montana) because the scale makes it more cost-efficient per unit.

A lot of these breweries are like playgrounds with a bunch of kids running around.

That there looks hella tacky, cuz, no cap fr fr

From MY experience THESE places still are mainly parking lots (garages) with random resturants Serving non-white food for idiots who are willing to let it all go for some shitty greasy PRISON type food.

Nobody is having kids because we have too many people. Its not that deep and you're not that smart.

t. Lives in vinex

Oh. I don't get that that badly. It's mainly areas surrounding suburbs so people just walk in or uber because there's a bunch of bars anyways.

have you ever had sex little man?

I like it. The incels complaining would be miserable no matter where they are at in life, always finding something new to bitch about and criticize.

Wrong, we don't have too much people. We have too much greedy useless faggots in the forms of billionaire entrepreneurs, anti christ gurus and sleezy politicians along with all their ilk and simps.

I would much rather live in a new apartment that has a pool and is owned by an investment firm that has a bunch of businesses catered for young people in the area and nobody is actually from the city than some 80 year old 'soulful' apartment where everything is broken and the landlord is some old woman who lives around the corner and the bars in the area are populated by greasy dudes who have lived in the city their whole life.

We mastered this thousands of years ago, why is it so hard now?

We do. 90% of the economy is fake for a reason. Even the "primary industries" like mining just feed into the fake bullshit. It's all to support a pointlessly large number of human woodchips. Even the billionaires are mostly fake at this point.

I recently watched the film Rear Window by the British director Alfred Hitchcock and city living seemed comfy

Because of people like this post Where it was never enough for them to be satisfied so they pit their misery against the rest of the meek and normal ones.

This. Boomers have made themselves so insufferable that a sovless corporation is a better feeling alternative.

Just because you're too dumb to understand what a job is and why it exists, doesn't mean its 'fake'.

Places like these are breeding grounds for socialism and other kinds of unsavory anti-american ideologies

i dont know what youre talking about. i think it would go a long way to have more front-facing entraces with little porch and garden or something. put in a little more styling for commercial space. its souless when so many new building have blank concrete walls and flat glass panes

Surely some things are more important then investors making a profit? If people are ok with on shoring jobs despite the higher prices, then what wrong with returning to a method of construction that provided not quality housing but a real living wage for million of American craftsmen?
We built whole cities like this, even modest working class houses look better then OP's pic

t. Definitely works a real job that totally doesn't exist just to move money around an economy that's entirely based on debt

It's better than the suburbanist parking lot-ridden hellscape that boomers constructed which has collapsed all around us.

We live in the rubble of a very different country that was forever shattered in the 1940s, no point vgh'ing over a past that will never return. If plastic cuck boxes are the way to rebuilding dense and affordable urban living in America, I am here for it

These buildings would be very expensive if you tried to replicate it today. Also likely illegal in USA due to building codes- these are 4 story buildings with only one staircase for example.

Also, these apartments probably just aren't that nice compared to what people want today. They're likely smaller than people want, without a balcony, they have no amenities. This is true of the retail spaces on the bottom as well.

So basically they don't get built because they cost too much and wouldn't actually yield that much rent, even if it was able to be built.

We got an area like that, 2000+ apartments built in the 2024 and 25 construction seasons in a town of 150K and NO FUCKING GROCERY STORE. Only urbanist on the aesthetic level, no actual conveniences of urban life. I don't got a problem with the architecture though, it is what it is and we kinda ran out of old warehouses and schools to retrofit. Add a fuckin TJs and it'd be Poppin.

Boston

This is one of the only cities where not everything was demolished for parking lots and wider roads and you know it

We are not living in 1900 anymore, seething at buildings for not being to your preferred architectural style instead of looking at the function they serve in the community (with enough being built in Austin to push rent down) is counterproductive and retarded - on par with the interest group idiots who puppet the Democratic party and push us away from abundance

Surely some things are more important then investors making a profit?

Its not just about profit, its about whether or not the project works at all. When you add costs, the developer doesn't just make less profit, it just doesn't get built. If you're adding costs, it needs to yield higher rent to make up for it.

If people are ok with on shoring jobs despite the higher prices

They aren't.

We built whole cities like this, even modest working class houses look better then OP's pic

We did this when labor costs were lower and household sizes were much higher.

Why exactly are corporations spending a bunch of money to pay people six figures to do nothing of value?

REEE HOUSING IS TOO EXPENSIVE

WE NEED MORE SUPPLY OF HOUSING

NOOOOOOOOOOOOO NOT THAT

KILL
YOURSELVES

They can't just add a grocery store. You have to attract a grocery store, and grocery store chains are very picky when selecting new locations.

Keep adding more apartments, and it makes it more likely a grocery store will come. You can't expect to build a neighborhood with all the urban amenities in 2 years.

entirely to move money around

Your office job is entirely dedicated to making the extraction of resources somewhere else more profitable. You get paid a fraction of that profitability

Fell for it award
That's bullshit modernist faggot companies tell you to charge you MORE while making their jobs easier

Dude tell me about it, I'm part of that annoying as fuck process in a less desirable neighborhood. I'm hoping newbuildtown can start with a lil ethnic one and go from there. Literally something less than a mile away. TJs doesn't understand our state and they think one here will pull business from one 30 miles away.

Because nobody did anything to stop the population explosion from the industrial revolution, so now we have a lot of bodies to justify. That money by the way isn't the corporation's. It's a fictious debt handed down and justified by the financial system. Debt which is conveniently poofed away when Chud Corp. defaults and explodes and the only fallout is that the proles need to jump ship to another hallucination. Those who fail become homeless ghouls and eventually stuffed on a greyhound and dropped off in the middle of nowhere.

Meanwhile, what is that "hundreds of thousands of dollars" actually worth? Next to fucking nothing. There's a reason they hand it out like candy. Wow anon, a hot meal and a slightly less rickety toothpick crapshack to rest your head. How very gracious of the overlords. Really living like a king.

This is a lot of words to say that you don't understand how economics works.

Least stupid brazilian award. Wtf are you doing you dumb gorilla retard? Those apartment buildings in OPs image are not architectural pieces, they cost maximum $1 million to put up and require no special labor and minimal engineering. Your contemporary examples are extreme statements of mathematics and structural calculus and are the upper echelon of new builds. Not some random apartment building in Dallas put up in 5 months by a faceless real estate developer.

Holy shit I hate you stupid monkeys so much. Go shove a banana up your ass and suck an argie cock. That's all you're good for, you dumb turd-eating furbeast.

it's okay once the trees on the right will have grown it will even be good

Do you think renovations aren't a thing? This is what the average historic rowhouse looks like on the inside

Calm down man, that's no way to talk to the missing link

And yet you can't even provide a single topical word on the matter. Wow anon, I'm very convinced. Just keep slinging low rent denial dude, that doesn't come off like the frustrated cope of a retard who's mad but doesn't have a single ounce of real domain knowledge to articulate his feelings. Pathetic.

We are nowhere near overpopulated, it's entirely an economic issue. Ever since the great recession the cracks have been forming and slowly but surely you are seeing the side effects of the failures of neoliberalism

Looks fine to me

that looks pretty good THOUGH

a product of urban development being driven by market forces

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every sc on here from that site is somebody malding about some inane faggotry.

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What was the point of answering your own question?