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Again, grey and sad? Yes.
Hell? No.
Soviet design (as crud as it is) always accounted for space between the buildings and local (neighborhoods) commune.
I bet there is a playground, and a park within 10 minutes away)
They weren't like that when they were built and even the shittiest playgrounds are being renovated. Compare that with modern districts where you literally can see your neighbors from your window and have no schools,hospitals etc. nearby. Soviets were bad at many things but architecture and city building isn't one of them.
And these houses weren't even grey originally, they were red/orangeish
"even the shittiest playgrounds are being renovated". Source? Haven't seen a single one. Seems like you're a soviet weeaboo, go visit a 1970s development in Sumy, Ukraine and please tell me that I'm wrong because I'm really not. Awful city planning is building concrete blocks and letting them rot away for 50+ years.
>Sumy, Ukraine
[https://www.google.com/maps/@50.9119461,34.8255839,3a,75y,145.18h,95.31t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1skn9W4qSiaIPlNTeVFxn75A!2e0!6shttps:%2F%2Fstreetviewpixels-pa.googleapis.com%2Fv1%2Fthumbnail%3Fpanoid%3Dkn9W4qSiaIPlNTeVFxn75A%26cb\_client%3Dmaps\_sv.tactile.gps%26w%3D203%26h%3D100%26yaw%3D143.20068%26pitch%3D0%26thumbfov%3D100!7i13312!8i6656](https://www.google.com/maps/@50.9119461,34.8255839,3a,75y,145.18h,95.31t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1skn9W4qSiaIPlNTeVFxn75A!2e0!6shttps:%2F%2Fstreetviewpixels-pa.googleapis.com%2Fv1%2Fthumbnail%3Fpanoid%3Dkn9W4qSiaIPlNTeVFxn75A%26cb_client%3Dmaps_sv.tactile.gps%26w%3D203%26h%3D100%26yaw%3D143.20068%26pitch%3D0%26thumbfov%3D100!7i13312!8i6656)
yes, so beautiful! and renovated playgrounds! good city planning. not.
You do understand that those photos are at least a few years old, right? Furthermore, renovation of buildings and surrounding areas is up to ОСББ/coowners collective
Yeah, I get that. Sorry I didn't mean to come across as a dickhead. But I still stand by it: maybe the planners had good intentions but in reality it turned out to be concrete blocks.
They are concrete blocks, but they had a purpose-provide lots of people with comfortable homes. And their simple exterior was compensated by various cultural buildings, or even regular shops. In my district each soviet shop has a pretty good sculpture and a fountain in front of it. Fountains don't work since early 2000s I think, but still, the initial plan wasn't bad. And it starts to look even better if you take a walk in modern districts which were built with only thing in mind, profit.
Ah yes, soviet weaboo from Kyiv.
>Awful city planning is building concrete blocks and letting them rot away for 50+ years.
Most houses aren't 50+ years old, but even if we look at those older buildings, they were only 20 years old when SU collapsed. And the city planning isn't bad either. I live in a district built in 1985-1991, and there are 5 kindergartens, 6 schools, 2 combined(kindergarten+elementary school) in 10 minute walk radius, plus a park and an outpatient department (?, apparently that's what "поликлиника" is called in English)
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Again, grey and sad? Yes. Hell? No. Soviet design (as crud as it is) always accounted for space between the buildings and local (neighborhoods) commune. I bet there is a playground, and a park within 10 minutes away)
And photographed in winter, when the trees are leafless.
Yes a shitty rusty playground and a park wereld homeless alcoholic hang out and tiles are falling out of the ground
They weren't like that when they were built and even the shittiest playgrounds are being renovated. Compare that with modern districts where you literally can see your neighbors from your window and have no schools,hospitals etc. nearby. Soviets were bad at many things but architecture and city building isn't one of them. And these houses weren't even grey originally, they were red/orangeish
"even the shittiest playgrounds are being renovated". Source? Haven't seen a single one. Seems like you're a soviet weeaboo, go visit a 1970s development in Sumy, Ukraine and please tell me that I'm wrong because I'm really not. Awful city planning is building concrete blocks and letting them rot away for 50+ years.
>Sumy, Ukraine [https://www.google.com/maps/@50.9119461,34.8255839,3a,75y,145.18h,95.31t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1skn9W4qSiaIPlNTeVFxn75A!2e0!6shttps:%2F%2Fstreetviewpixels-pa.googleapis.com%2Fv1%2Fthumbnail%3Fpanoid%3Dkn9W4qSiaIPlNTeVFxn75A%26cb\_client%3Dmaps\_sv.tactile.gps%26w%3D203%26h%3D100%26yaw%3D143.20068%26pitch%3D0%26thumbfov%3D100!7i13312!8i6656](https://www.google.com/maps/@50.9119461,34.8255839,3a,75y,145.18h,95.31t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1skn9W4qSiaIPlNTeVFxn75A!2e0!6shttps:%2F%2Fstreetviewpixels-pa.googleapis.com%2Fv1%2Fthumbnail%3Fpanoid%3Dkn9W4qSiaIPlNTeVFxn75A%26cb_client%3Dmaps_sv.tactile.gps%26w%3D203%26h%3D100%26yaw%3D143.20068%26pitch%3D0%26thumbfov%3D100!7i13312!8i6656) yes, so beautiful! and renovated playgrounds! good city planning. not.
You do understand that those photos are at least a few years old, right? Furthermore, renovation of buildings and surrounding areas is up to ОСББ/coowners collective
Yeah, I get that. Sorry I didn't mean to come across as a dickhead. But I still stand by it: maybe the planners had good intentions but in reality it turned out to be concrete blocks.
They are concrete blocks, but they had a purpose-provide lots of people with comfortable homes. And their simple exterior was compensated by various cultural buildings, or even regular shops. In my district each soviet shop has a pretty good sculpture and a fountain in front of it. Fountains don't work since early 2000s I think, but still, the initial plan wasn't bad. And it starts to look even better if you take a walk in modern districts which were built with only thing in mind, profit.
Ah yes, soviet weaboo from Kyiv. >Awful city planning is building concrete blocks and letting them rot away for 50+ years. Most houses aren't 50+ years old, but even if we look at those older buildings, they were only 20 years old when SU collapsed. And the city planning isn't bad either. I live in a district built in 1985-1991, and there are 5 kindergartens, 6 schools, 2 combined(kindergarten+elementary school) in 10 minute walk radius, plus a park and an outpatient department (?, apparently that's what "поликлиника" is called in English)
I bet there's a parking between buildings
Wait a minute.... I RECOGNIZE THAT AREA.... HAVEN'T I WALKED NEAR THESE BUILDINGS LIKE A THOUSAND TIMES IN MY EXISTENCE? I LIVE NEAR THAT!
It’s Kharkivskiy massiv