The great cities that were never built (many giant images)
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Only if you don't have THIGHS OF STEEL.
But in all serious pants, I personally am not a fan of strict box grids from an aesthetic viewpoint. If I was a crazed emperor/dictator/guy with a lot of money, I would do something closer to Detroit's plan that I made in the first post. I love baroque pattern streets with lots of Flatirons type corners. Ive been thinking about cranking up sketchup soon and designing a city like that, problem is it keep exploding when my cities get too huge.
When you said thighs of steel I was thinking "he's about to make some stupid Pittsburgh reference". but anyways Why would you make DETROIT have an awesome streetplan? Why not some other city that isn't poor as Mali?
Do it early enough and maybe the awesome street plan can save Detroit? Part of the reason Detroit sucks is because its dominated by highways and has crappy transit.
FDW
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No, much of that undeveloped area was developed OTL. And again, I wouldn't say that SF is hilly, it has constant changes in elevation, but the "hills" aren't really all that prominent in my view.
No, really, it's actually rather easy to avoid the worst SF's grades if you know what you're doing.
FDW
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No, it's not like that at all for the most part. I would say that Seattle is far worse than San Francisco when it come hills and their placement.
But they're so booooring. Plus if you make the blocks too big, you need diagonal streets. I personally like Le-Enfant style plans the most especially when combined with transit systems.
Found another one: what if New York city never had its strict grid instituted and the roads were based on existing farm roads?
Dr. Strangelove
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Christopher Wren's plan for rebuilding the City of London after the Great Fire:
(Those great avenues would have looked like rollercoasters)
The nazi plan to raze 90% of Warsaw and turn what was left into a quaint little german province town:
(After the Warsaw uprising it was updated to Raze Everything In Warsaw)
(Those great avenues would have looked like rollercoasters)
The nazi plan to raze 90% of Warsaw and turn what was left into a quaint little german province town:
(After the Warsaw uprising it was updated to Raze Everything In Warsaw)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Monaghan's_Leaning_Tower_of_Pizza not quite a city but prettty strange,
Not remembered much today, but after in September of 1945, there were plans for major urban redevelopment in downtown Toledo, Ohio. In fact, Norman Bel Geddes of Futurama Car Show fame was contracted to draw up plans, and actually built a model for the proposed "Toledo Tomorrow".
Picture 1: A closeup of the downtown area looking roughly north from the Anthony Wayne Suspension Bridge towards the downtown. One of the main features of the redevelopment would be the construction of an airport downtown (visible in second photo).
Photo 2: Geddes plan called for a new Union Terminal (the old one having burned down before the war, to which many Toledo citizens cheered on as the hated building burned to the ground), which would combine bus terminal, airport, and rail station into one area, rather than have them spread over the city.
Photo 3: This image shows the model from the east side of Toledo to the Northwest (roughly) of what development would look like there.
Photo 4: An article on the proposed redevelopment showing some of the main areas which would be affected.
Picture 1: A closeup of the downtown area looking roughly north from the Anthony Wayne Suspension Bridge towards the downtown. One of the main features of the redevelopment would be the construction of an airport downtown (visible in second photo).
Photo 2: Geddes plan called for a new Union Terminal (the old one having burned down before the war, to which many Toledo citizens cheered on as the hated building burned to the ground), which would combine bus terminal, airport, and rail station into one area, rather than have them spread over the city.
Photo 3: This image shows the model from the east side of Toledo to the Northwest (roughly) of what development would look like there.
Photo 4: An article on the proposed redevelopment showing some of the main areas which would be affected.
Plan from Le Corbusier (Plan Voisin) to make Paris a "radious city".
Bigger view there
The reason? "Because gigantic towers are fucking awesome!". Basically this.
We do know how joyful and pretty is to living in gigantic, squared towers today of course...
Bigger view there
The reason? "Because gigantic towers are fucking awesome!". Basically this.
We do know how joyful and pretty is to living in gigantic, squared towers today of course...
I think Le Corbusier was very important for teaching us what NOT to do. At the time everyone thought cars were the shit, so instead of designing cities for people, they designed cities for cars. We still unfortunately do that today, though there are some counter movements. I think he was a good architect, but he was also the first to try some new things that we now know are mostly wrong.
Albert Speer was just really unoriginal and I feel like he would have been a decent architect in an OTL world without Hitler.
Dr. Strangelove
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As an urbanist, indeed (although the Plan Voisin is the most misunderstood joke in architectural history). As an architect, he was nothing short of a genius. Albert Speer was a pathetic dwarf compared to him, someone with a truly disgusting concept of architecture.