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How are more people not talking about the futuristic cities in China? (hexbear.net)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by hexi@hexbear.net to c/askchapo@hexbear.net
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Look up a video in Shenzhen or Chongqing. Everything looks 2 decades out, and the giant crystal skyscrapers light up different colors. Sometimes the whole thing is a TV.

China surpassed USAmerica in GDP already, but it doesn't look close to tied in development and advanced technologies.

The trains there go hundreds of miles in less than an hour, you could commute across the country every day.

Meanwhile in America the "middle class" is struggling to have some walls and a roof. Record debt and crumbling infrastructure. How is all of this ignored and not talked about everywhere?

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[–] star_wraith@hexbear.net 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Psssh. Who needs forward-looking architecture? Here in Burgerland every new public building has to be made in the same faux Neoclassical style. Literally, Trump signed an EO mandating this style and afaik Biden has never rolled it back.

I hate Neoclassical architecture so much. And I hate it even more because it seems everyone around me actually likes it and when anyone tries to build anything even remotely modern it gets shot down by white NIMBY types who say “lEt’S dO GrEeK cOlUmNs”

[–] Mardoniush@hexbear.net 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

It is overdone, even in revivalist architecture. Where's our Neogothic revival? I want spiky buildings!

[–] PeoplesRepublicOfNewEngland@hexbear.net 1 points 1 year ago

Brandonhammer (laughably inadequate) 40(1)k