Right wing architecture

Who could've guessed, low-cost housing doesn't look fancy!

How the hell is this "left wing architecture"?? Apartment buildings have looked like this all around the world for at least 50 years.

Social housing typically doesn't look as good as high-end apartments, but it doesn't have to look terrible. Here's some pretty neat looking social housing in south Paris.

It's kind of the China Town of Paris.

It's right next to an accessible tram station, has green spaces and social areas spread around, a couple of malls with great independent restaurants right next door. There are cycle lanes all around the place.

If you're curious, here it is on Google Maps

I'd live here. I only wish there were more neighbourhoods like this.

This litterally looks like any neighbourhood build in Spain in the 60s.

Meanwhile in famously communist South Korea...

I don't see this as left or right wing

This is architecture that could be done better.

Yes, we need to stop homelessness, but you also want to avoid creating spaces where nobody wants to live because it's ugly and depressing and guaranteed, the poor end up having to live there, and with that comes crime and what not and you end up with ghetto style areas where even police is uneasy

Take a little bit more space, put a little bit more thought into the designs, add spaces for children to play, add parks, make it look nice. Wr don't need luxury villas either, but there has to be something better than this

"Dumb commies, they think this is better than owning your own houses and renting them out so they don't have to work? Savages, let them live in cardboard boxes." / the bourgeoisie

I think of the landlords all the time actually...

homelessness

Data centers, that empty parking lot outside the abandoned mall, deportation camps…

They're called commieblocks if they're affordable to the average person. If not, they're "highrise apartments"

I live in a city with neighbourhoods built during Socialism, they're spacious, full of greenery and with important services within walkable/bikeable distance. Meanwhile we have new "urban villas", which are drab concrete boxes with apartments that have bizzare floorplans and seem to be built for money laundering purposes.

Also part of why it looks depressing is because it's old and poorly maintained.

Just a touch of renovation and the houses start looking way better:

Semi relatedly, there's some new blocks in my city that are both ugly and expensive to live in. It's this soulless, almost corporate feeling type of architecture. Doesn't fit into how the city looks at all. They had the opportunity to decide whether to build affordable housing or something pretty that aesthetically fits into the city and picked neither. No doubt the shareholders shed a tear of joy.

Wtf is a left wing architecture.

The shit far right comes up with sometimes melts my brain.

Just paint them some color bruh. It would do wonder.

I'm not sure what "left wing architecture" means. Because, to me, this looks like the sort of thing you have to do when the population grows like crazy. Those tend to be areas where women have little education and little power.

People here understand that the Soviet Union had a homeless population too, right? They actually had a higher rate than the US in the 1980s.

Copying and pasting an old comment i made:

Honestly, commieblocks arent that bad. Most of the pictures of them are cherry picked to be the unmaintained, dirty ones, and are exclusively taken in gloomy weather. The houses on the inside are usually good quality as well (though likely not well maintained anymore).

Hell, if you just painted them colourfully, they'd look nice.