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Originally Posted by Minato Ku
Our destroyed historic centers of have never been able to regain their former glories unlike German cities. (Fortunately most of our cities have been quite spared).
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Seriously? Strasbourg, which was heavily bombed, has a much nicer center than any German city. The only reason it was rebuilt so nicely is because it's now in France. It's really the nicest "German" city center anywhere. If it were still in Germany it would look like crap, in the postwar rush to rebuild.
France was lucky to have fewer cities flattened, but the fact is that they did a much nicer job with postwar rebuilding (which, granted, is much easier when 10% of your country is destroyed instead of 50%).
All the German city centers are much uglier than French city centers. Berlin, Hamburg, Frankfurt, Stuttgart, Munich, Cologne, Mannheim, all the Ruhr cities, all the former GDR cities. Maybe Nuremberg is the best, in terms of having the least 1950's-looking core crap? Heidelberg is nice too, but wasn't heavily bombed, and is much smaller.
German suburbs tend to be slightly more UK/US-looking, with more SFH and less multifamily than France, but otherwise not that different from France. Germany has more of the big box-style development too.