Thread: How would you "fix" your neighborhood?
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Old Posted Jul 31, 2019, 7:34 PM
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Originally Posted by subterranean View Post
And it's fake.
Lots of streets here do look like that, though.

Anyway, buildings constructed between 1950-1970 that shouldn’t be torn down are really more the exception than the rule.

Japanese cities are also generally ugly for the same reason. Great urban form, but the buildings themselves need to be replaced.
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