True, at some point you get sucked into nostalgia -- but there's no denying that the illustration for this article shows "commie block" architecture at its worst, a sort of computer-generated churning out of floor plates, and a totally graceless "meeting the street" kind of interaction. The buildings just scream "fast & cheap" and "fuck you," too.
Ah, the resonance of Richard Sennett and Jane Jacobs, clearly. Well, it seems that architects (or the developers that hire them) don't necessarily read.
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