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If you compared modern day Hartford to modern day Hiroshima, you would think the atomic bomb was dropped on Hartford.

So sad… look at my City💔

I live next to AC this shit still the wave no bs the trop gets busy

This is so true. Most rich people from Philly area and NYC area go to other Jersey shore towns. If you ask what shore town they like, you will never here Atlantic City. Besides, the water is only swimmabl for a few months because it's cold in the winter

This is really a shallow take. They're rebuilding some buildings to make them more car centric. When they destroy an old building, just to build it "anew", they put garages under them. Yeah, very authentic. In the meantime, they destroy old historic buildings, for the example, the building of the Hungarian National Radio, just to grab land for their power and money hungry oligarchs. Don't just judge from outside, ask some local experts first, before forming an opinion. Watch Gyurcsák Ádám's video on this topic to get a more nuanced take. (Fake Historical Buildings are Problematic).

60% of people walking around during the day in downtown are working at insurance companies like Travelers and The Hartford, and at night 90% of the people in downtown Hartford are only there to go to the XL Center or a Yard Goats game

who is that bass player??

New Britain CT once the hardware capital of the world went through the same urban planning destruction of highway running directly through the center of the city and the loss of factories and blue collar workers…the city has become a ghost of its former self with nothing left but a place for the homeless and poor to wander the city streets…

It’s like a ghost town now

For everyone that’s complaining about the high price of parking just know many of the businesses inside still have their employees pay for that parking too when they work. Joke of a business model

All cities are dumps. You mention a bunch of reasons, but neglected the most obvious. Cities are where most minorities live. And minorities commit the majority of violent crime in this country. I live 20 minutes from downtown Hartford. Any time im forced to drive through this monstrosity I always wonder how people could ever vote democrat.

You didn’t cover east of troost. Marlborough Heights, Oak Park, Ivanhoe, south blue valley, and the 6 blood roads are where the murder rates mostly come from. Traffic is not bad at all here, you showed three bad pics but in general it’s not that bad except for like 30 minutes when everyone gets outta work

Très beau reportage; beaucoup d'informations sur ce projet monumental !

What year did the Civil Rights Act get passed? 1964 Lost of 3 % for 30 years from1930s 1940, through 1960. 1970 and afterwards, loss of 19% and more. Doesn't take a rocket scientist to calculate why big places like this (Detroit, Chicago and on and one) fall. Smart people will know the truth of what I am saying. Emotional children will call me names. 😘

How sad.....

Looking at this from my British point of view, I don't understand why the roads are so wide. They are virtually empty, what was the point? Eight lanes is usually the maximum in the UK. City centre roads are rarely over four lanes wide.

Spainstan would never

Well we've been in a recession and theft issues

The problem with the Village aside from idiotoc parking, is that they leased the location originally to 6 yoga pants stores, 4 coffee places, 6 bland restaurants except Lucille's and Katsuya and nothing is open late! Woodland Hills is the closest thing to a nightlife area that the Valley has. When I was growing up there, there were numerous famous bars, nightclubs, live music venues, and hangout restaurants all over the valley. There were 24 hour places to eat after clubs and bars. Now, it's a boring, dead looking place where it's hard to find something open past 9! The Village could have been great - they could have built moving sidewalks connecting to Topanga. They could have made it like zuniversal.Citywalk or 3rd Street promenade. With a day time vibe for families and kids and a happy hour and night time vibe for adults! They could have made the valley exciting again. This is LA. People on this thread that are new in town, younger, they have no sense of the history. LA Is the valley. And it's Beverly Hills, Hollywood, Santa Monica. Maybe Downtown a little in the last decade or so - and it's had periods of being alive in the 90's. That's LA. Yes, Culver City and the South Bay are LA too. But on a much smaller scale, if you are in the mood sort of LA. It used to be that Westwood was LA. And Calabasas is LA. Anyway, if they want to see success? Bring really good food to the valley. Topanga Social? Make it a music and comedy venue. Make it social for adults not kids. Kids in the day, ok. Get rid of those lame vending machine "restaurant fronts" and get real places. Stay open until 2AM. Have 24 hour cool restaurant spots. Like Jerry's Deli was or Mel's. People need things to do outside their homes. Off their phones. It's funny but in the 80's, there was a popular restaurant where you would go after clubs or at night and the tables had land line phones, and you could call other tables - the original tinder. I think that young people are starving for somewhere social. And so are people over 35 and 40. More and more people are single. And they need places to go socialize. In groups. Pick up. Hook up. The valley needs to be a lot more fun and much more R rated afyer 8pm!

Architecturally, Budapest is the most beautiful city in Europe

As a metro Atlanta native who got the first chance of their life to see just a sliver of the rest of the country when traveling for work. I have been blown away at how old cities like Charleston SC, Madison Wisconsin , & Detroit Michigan look in their architecture and realized the south's neoclassical architecture was the first of ours to go

I grew up in a town southwest of Carmel. You already addressed the pronunciation problem (Carml vs Car-mel and Mo-non vs Monen). In high school, we all disliked the Carmel and Fishers high schools because they were seen as the rich schools (they are lol) and honestly most of us were jealous of all of the amenities. I wanted to live in Carmel for a brief time, but Carmel is not cheap to live in (unless you’re comparing to LA or NYC) especially near downtown. It would be a much more attractive place to live in if it weren’t seated in a bright red state 😅

You're honestly one of the dumbest youtubers.

Alexander Rotmensz is not tied to Fidesz Ádám Gyurcsik is tied to the opposition of Fidesz Guess whose video is politically motivated

5:10 okay but cactus grill is good tho

your opinion is a regular viewpoint, ádám told the archetect viewpoint with the political background. and on top of this u 2 have different taste.

f'ing commies, can't even argue about aesthetics, believing everything is equally beautiful, not understanding that yes, some things are ugly

This is an absolutely clueless take.

His whole argument basically just sounded like, "Oh, you want a pretty building? You must hate modern toilets." I feel like he really wasn't worth responding to. He got his nice home, and now he wants to pull the ladder up behind him. That's all.

I dont find it not doing well. I go there on occasion and patronize the place. A lot of the restaurants are filled and doing well.

Nothing in ct is worth the while

I'm from Hungary, and don't take it too seriously these politically motivated neoliberal agitators! They suffering, because of their political biasness don't letting them to see correctly anything. This guy in all of their videos showing countless examples of his one-sideness and opposition political ideology, so his political view totally determining his all the other views. You have right in all of you said about modern architectural conservativism , and even I consider myself as opposition supporter, but I don't mixing the aesthetical side with the political side...

Genuinely heartbreaking

You know why Hartford is gone? FIVE words...COMMUNIST DEMONCRATS AND RIGGED ELECTIONS!! All of you are ASLEEP and deserve what you have! Everything WOKE goes BROKE! Too bad for the Constituion State! Enjoy CT!

What a disgusting downgrade.

Get out of my city

wtf is with the hideous AI generated images at 0:27 and 0:29. good video otherwise but ???

Who's going to pay for all that Redevelopment and who will gain by it?

So sad! We need a true American to bring it back! The democrats ruined it!

But it's not just a matter of architecture or white flight, though both are important. It's the de-industrialization of the USA. Buffalo was like Detroit and cities in Ohio, a hub of manufacturing and industry. Almost All of that is gone. Of course a lot of people lived there because the jobs were there and wages, and opportunity.

I am not a fan of Viktor Orban's authoritarian corrupt illiberal democracy and have a lot to criticize about his style of governing, but I like that he is reviving Budapest and making it great again with beautiful classical architecture.

If the people of Carmel had public transit options, they wouldn't need so much infrastructure for cars.

Yes, yes you were. This video is just you saying ,,but building beautifull'' for 50 minutes, while ignoring any of the points he made about literally anything else, because ,,pretty building'' just has priority above everything else. That's not really an argument - just because building looks nice doesn't make it inherently more valueable and it doesn't mean it's better for it to stand there - other things, such as utility to the public, the effect on the surrounding area, the cultural and historical significance, etc. etc. matter as well. Like hey, I like medieval castles, but that doesn't mean I want medieval castles to be built nowdays. Also you are ignoring politics and pretending that architecture isn't political, it is, it always was - and it is political especially in the case of Hungary. And to say that ,,oh it doesn't matter because the building that's being built there will be pretty'' is really hypocritical of you to say, because that's exactly the excuse that people who you criticise used when they built their buildings - ie. the palace of the people in Romania, built by the communist regime there, where a historical neighbourhood was demolished just to make way for the building, because the ruler desired it. Also you have no clue what you are talking about. For one, you say that people don't know that the buildings in many old european cities didn't stand in their places since medieval times - which is just blatantly wrong. Anyone with a bit of interrest in architecture or urbanism will be able to tell you that they didn't, infact I'd go as far as to say most citizens of the city will be able to tell you that - maybe not a specific time when they were built, but definetly that they weren't there since whenever, because things like the history of the city is often discussed in schools, or on public events. Two, you don't seem to have any understanding of eastern block architecture. To you, everything build from the 50's onwards is ''soviet style'' and can be interchanged by ''brutalist'' which is not how this works. ,,Soviet style'' is not a thing, it's a made up term used by the regulars, who don't have any knowledge of architecture. Brutalism is a real style, but 99% of the buildings called brutalist are infact not brutalist. People associate brutalism with gray boxes with sharp lines when that's not what the style means, brutalism comes from the french ,,béton brut'' which means raw concrete - and it reffers to the look of the fascade and materials used. As an example of brutalist buildings, I'd point you to Geisel Library in the U.S or Druzhba Sanatorium in Ukraine - both very beautifull and unique brutalist buildings. Also also, what you consider ''soviet style architecture'' warried wildly from country to country, the 50's-80's era buildings in say Czechia are completely different from the 50's-80's buildings in Russia and also completely different to 50's-80's buildings in say Kazachstan. Third, you have no idea what you are talking about when speaking about panel housing estates in the former eastern block. They were not build just in lines to not form courtyards, they did form their blocks in a way, just more open and publically accessible, which in my opinion is a good thing. Also you don't understand the urban planning - why were the streets not narrow ? why were the buildings further apart ? - it was so that each building can get enough sunlight and two, to allow for a lot of greenery. It's like the exact oposite of dehumanizing lmao. Source ? - I live in these sorts of apartment blocks, they are not a bad place to live, they are actually quite comfortable place to live in, everything you need, like a shop or a school or a public transportation stop of some sort is in a walking distance. There are also a lot of trees and greenery around - the photos really don't make it justice, because like pretty much every photo on the internet is these old gray poorly maintained buildings in the winter / fall, when all the greenery is gone and it really gives this false impression of what actual life in these places is like. Plus, yet again, ignoring any historical context of why these buildings were build by just saying ,,muh building beautifull'' and pointing at some renovated old buildings which in majority of cases didn't look like that when the people were moving away from them, into the newly built modern prefab apartment blocks - especially since in many cases they were blown to smitherines. Something you need to understand is, that there were hundreds of thousands of people left without housing or with very inadequate housing and building ''beautifull'' buildings just wasn't possible - neither financially, nor time wise. Finally, this whole ''beautifull'' building thing is highly subjective. I find buildings or all eras beautifull, not all, but some certainly. Just because you personally find some buildings ugly, doesn't mean that others don't find the beautifull and it doesn't give you the right to be the sole determiner of their fate. Honestly the fact that you all keep defending this ''reject modernity, return to tradition'' makes me really sus of you all, especially since this tradition and history seems to only apply to like anything up to 1945, after which aparently history, traditions and culture just stopped existing, or became wortheless and so they should be replaced by what once was - which just seems to me like a deeply reactionary take. I think overall, I'd call all of this a reactionary architectural movement, that's what all of this feels like.

CAR-mul not car-MELL haha. I say the word "caramel" the same way I say the name of this adjacent town. But if you pronounce "caramel" "care-uh-mel" then we have bigger problems lmao

10:15 communist estates are WAAAY better than what was build in Poland after 90s. Poland, a country obsessed with USA, adopted many shitty trends from the US, including (unfortunately) shitty, mostly grey, black and white suburbs (which are ofc less car-centric than originals and WAY less common). Funily enough, repainted commie blocks are more colorful than recently build communities 😂😂 Almost EVERY single house / block built after 2013 is white, grey or asphalt, has a black roof (which gets super hot during summer), black window frames and is very often gated (like a rural house) 😂 Nowadays, having a commie block flat inherited is the best gift you can get if you are a student or a Millenial in his/her 30s. Newly built flats are so small, expensive, ugly and located in terrible places (with little access to public services or public transit), that commie flats seem like luxury compared to them. Welcome to Poland 😂

7:25 I agree! We should get rid of cars in many places, narrow the streets, build more tram lines, bus lanes, bike lanes, renovate old buildings (not only their exteriors), build new ones that fit in older parts of cities, repaint blocks (repainted ones are common in PL, but not in Latvia or Lithuania, not to mention UA or Moldova).

6:47 Our population (at least in Poland) was growing so fast, that we needed milions of flats and this way of building was the quickest way to do so. We had no time to build beuatiful bourgeoise palaces or old-fashioned tenaments. Although Poland was able to build 200k flats per year in 70s, we still lacked hundreds of thousands of then. Yep, blocks are not very beautiful (even though they were renovated, repainted, trees grew a lot, even tough people turn parcels of grass next the blocks into small gardens) but, they were built in order to house millons of people who were done with living in shitty, wooden houses without toilets or musty tenaments (which now, after renovating usually seem beautiful if you look at them as a tourist or even a city citizen). Personally, I adore old bulings in my city of Kraków. I admire Talowski, Biborski, Stryjeński (to name a few) and many other architects who designed thousands of great places in my city, but I understand people who moved to more modern buildings decades ago. If had lived in 60s I would have done exactly the same thing my grandparents did when they moved from old building in Kazimierz to newly build modernist estate Osiedle Podwawelskie. During their times, modernist buildings where objectively better places to live (for the vast majority of people) than older ones. If you go to Kraków you will inevitably find shabby bulindgs which haven't seen any restoration for decades and therefore they are black like coal (even in the oldest part of city!). These ones are not good places to live and never were. Buildings built for the wealthy merchants sure, but these ones meant for the workers or in general poor people, almost never. Even access to daylight in these places was limited, as well as an access to running water and central heating. Not mention that some people (even entire families) had to live in places like basements or attics (this obviously was the case in almost every city at that time). Even some buildings which are beautiful (neo-baroque, neo-classical, art nouveau), thanks to renovations od their exteriors, can still remain musty and dirty inside. If you just walk along the street as tourist or even a citizen, everything seems better than IT actually is. PS. People are still fleeing from city centers which are now more tourist-centered rather than citizen-centered.

The invention of the automobile destroyed all but a few American cities. I think it’s that simple. I’ve lived in Hartford and honestly it’s worse even compared to 20 years ago, let alone 100 years ago

*Orban derangement syndrome intensifies*