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Originally Posted by AFW523
What I found instead was an aggressive utilitarianism.
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There was a lot of the same trend over Paris as all over Europe for the (post-war) modern era. Nothing unusual. I know some people who visited this place and enjoyed it too.
Europe ruined by the war had to rebuild fast and often cheap. It might be more blatant over there because of the relatively smaller scale and of the Soviet influence. USSR was famously an expert of understated brutal functionalism.