DBWI: Urban Projects That Never Should've Been Built
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I still can't believe it took us 10+ years to rebuild the World Trade Center and we ended up with... this. The glass skeleton.
Actually, the Germans destroyed Paris when the Allies were on the verge of winning it (and killed thousands of Parisians; it's one of the worst tragedies on French soil--ironically, the Eiffel Tower was one of the few things spared), so blame the Nazis for this; it was still a bad decision by the postwar French government...And let's not forget the decision to raze much of Central Paris to put in this crap
We lost lots of beautiful Haussmann architecture for these concrete monstrosities
The "houston project" rebuilding of London into a texas-style sprawl after 1945 should probably count.
Birmingham? Nice? Clearly not from the same timeline. I had a flight transfer through there once and it was the same grey sprawl of concrete, billboards and strip malls as the rest of the southern half of england.
What. well it has not had munch devlopmuent since the 30s but is still nice with what it had. Also are we forme the same timeline or not.
OOC. are you aware this is a DBWI and not a standerdid therd or are we doing some intertimeline stuff. sorry for the missepspeelings.
OOC. are you aware this is a DBWI and not a standerdid therd or are we doing some intertimeline stuff. sorry for the missepspeelings.
I mean, I kind of get it, though - the Egyptian refugees were harkening back to the pyramids that were destroyed by nukes in '83. The United Islamic Republic's Reconstruction Commission has signed off on worse things, like the rather morbid memorial to the war dead in former Tel Aviv. That thing's hideous (not that Tel Aviv was exactly pretty during the Israeli days - very blandly bureaucratic).
Challenge: Make a TL somehow achieving peace in the Middle East with this as a starting premise. Somehow the song "Breakfast at Tiffany's" comes to mind.
I still can't believe it took us 10+ years to rebuild the World Trade Center and we ended up with... this. The glass skeleton.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Illinois
I wanted to see the Illinois Tower by Frank Lloyd Wright put there but taller. Top out the antenna at 1776 *meters* with room for a dedicated giant American flag. Original design was set to top out at 1730 meters.
kernals12
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What are you talking about? Next are you going to tell me the Thames should be made curvy again?If we're fixing Paris, we should be undoing that Straight Seinne (inSeinne?) monstrosity.Which idiot thought this was a good idea?
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For those of you who like the Champs-Élysées on the water: get over it.
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Remember the days when Center City wasn't this Forbidden City-style monstrosity and South treet wasn't utterly obliterated to make room for the smoggy gargantuan hellscape of the Crosstown Expressway? Remember the days before Girard Avenue was needlessly turned into yet another clone of the Vine? Pepperidge Farm remembers.
Christ it's depressing - once the Big Three were built everywhere outside of Center City and the Northeast went to shit. No wonder Liberty County broke off from Philly in the '80s, and no wonder UPenn moved out to Villanova in the '70s.
Christ it's depressing - once the Big Three were built everywhere outside of Center City and the Northeast went to shit. No wonder Liberty County broke off from Philly in the '80s, and no wonder UPenn moved out to Villanova in the '70s.
Absolutely!What are you talking about? Next are you going to tell me the Thames should be made curvy again?
All this tampering with nature is nuts.
What's next, diverting the Caspian Sea & turning it into farmland?
Even the Soviets can't be that crazy.Wait for it, somebody will say diverting rivers through the Rockies is a good idea.
L.A. will get to import Canadian water & export its earthquakes.OOC: there was a proposal to divert rivers south, rejected in part because it would've caused 'quakes...
kernals12
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OOC: You mean NAWAPA? The problem with that had nothing to do with earthquakes, it's that Canadians were not interested in flooding 800 miles of trench in British Columbia to water lawns in Southern California.Absolutely!
All this tampering with nature is nuts.
What's next, diverting the Caspian Sea & turning it into farmland?
Wait for it, somebody will say diverting rivers through the Rockies is a good idea.
OOC: there was a proposal to divert rivers south, rejected in part because it would've caused 'quakes...