A stunning picture [pmsumner]

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I was poking through the BBC News' PhotoJournalism website and found this... http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/magazine/in_pictures/default.stm

There's something there about a housing crisis in Czechoslovakia, and in that mini-series there is

Petrzalka, in Bratislava

I thought some of the high-rise estates here were bad... nothing compared to that.

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This looks like a rendering of the very first SimCity I made - too much residential, and nothing much else.

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It looks like my idea of hell - miles and miles of high-rise buildings, and well.... nothing else :)

I'm fairly sure that this isn't like anything you'd see in the UK. Unless you meant "are you sure" to something else.

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No trees... Nuthin'.

If I lived there, the first time I left home, I wouldn't be able to find my way back - everything looks the same.

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I'd never ever find my way home - just pick a random block and go to your flat number ;)

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*nods* Kinda like I do now when I've had a bit to much to drink.

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You, drink? And I thought you were such a good lad too ;)

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The outskirts of Prague look exactly like that. I was meant to live in student accommodation of this type. We fled as soon as we could. ;-) Sofia looks much like that too, BTW.

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You know, I thought I might get a reponse from you on this :)

I'm not surprised you fled. It'd be nice for the social aspect, I guess. But nooooo, no thank you! :)

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I don't do shared bedrooms. *shudders* ;-)

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*laughs* shared bedrooms are... "interesting" I'm sure, but no. No way.

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Here's a photo of Co-op City in the Bronx:

http://www.geocities.com/chesler.geo/riverbay/pictures.html

(and this is a _promotional_ photo!)

Co-op City is actually a middle-income development, not public housing. It's pretty atrocious looking though. Only the fact that you can see Pelham Bay saves it.

Lefrak City in Queens is another highrise monster if you want to google for photos.

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The difference between the two, is that the one in the Bronx at least doesn't look like a barren wasteland of towers.

But "Yikes"! I can't imagine living here - honestly, how? eeek!

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Well, this is the New York style of housing project.

Build the towers at random angles (showing disdain for the price of land) and plant trees in between. ("Regular" apartments are usually built directly facing the street, with as little room as possible in between, to get the max building space per acre.)

Actually, quite a lot of New York is nightmareish. My sister lives in Forest Hills. Her address is 1xx-xx 76 Dr. One block over is 1xx-xx 76 Rd. The building is identical. In fact, almost all apartment buildings in her area are nearly identical.

Public housing high-rises always look like they're made of some kind of lego-ish units stuck together. All the balconies and windows line up.

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More lovely Outer Boroughs streetscapes:

http://streetlights.tripod.com/sidests/

Look for Queens Blvd ("Death Boulevard") in Forest Hills for my sister's area. :-)

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Sheesh. I thought Im Neuenheimer Feld (http://eddie.wh.uni-heidelberg.de/inf133/lageplan/pics/feld.jpg), where I used to live in Germany, was horrible; but looking at that pic, it was a delight! My buildings were in the top left, just below the Schwimmbad. How on earth do people design homes with no trees around them?!

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That looks just like lancaster uni ;)

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Nah, INF was much nicer! It is a uni campus, though. The Mensa is the main refectory for the sci/med campus - you can see the main Head Injuries section (Kopfklinik) and the Children's Hospital (Kinderklinik) on the map. The DKFZ is the German Cancer Research Centre, where I worked. A lot of the other buildings around are biology, chemistry and physics. Across the road (out of shot) you'd also see the Paedogogische Hochschule (teacher training college) and the Max Plank Inst. - I think that was for Geosciences.

It's relentlessly well thought-out - you didn't need to go anywhere else, really, unless you wanted the SU or admin, which was in the main Uni campus in the town centre. Only a 5-min tram ride away, though.

Ooh, I'm getting all nostalgic now. *schniff*

Anne lives round there somewhere now, btw. ;-)

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Almost worth going over to see her just because I know that now ;)

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A stunning picture

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New York's got some good ones too

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