Commieblock neighbourhoods

[♣628.8m]

Neu Zippendorf, Schwerin.

http://www.sozialestadt.de/en/veroeffentlichungen/zwischenbilanz/images/2-schwerin_01.jpg

http://www.sozialestadt.de/en/veroeffentlichungen/zwischenbilanz/images/2-schwerin_04.jpg

Comments are appreciated.

[fettekatz]

interesting thread... is this about 'commieblocks' only? There're many similar building in non-communists nations.

München-Neuperlach:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/04/Neuperlach_0629.jpg/800px-Neuperlach_0629.jpg

Paris-Aubervilliers:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ac/Aubervilliers_hlm_night.jpg/800px-Aubervilliers_hlm_night.jpg

[♣628.8m]

Hanover- Klingenthal

http://www.sozialestadt.de/en/veroeffentlichungen/zwischenbilanz/images/2-hannover_06.jpg

[ØlandDK]

Looks terrible...

[Somnifor]

Riverside Plaza in Minneapolis was originally intended to be about 30,000 housing units. Fortunately less than 10% of the project was built. It was planned to be mixed housing with apartments for the poor, middle class and rich. It looks like a commieblock but it is actually market rate apartments, albeit some of the cheapest in the city. Minneapolis doesn't have much public housing, instead the poor are given cash vouchers to rent regular apartments at market rates.

http://www.boomspeed.com/atucker7/Fall_Spring_66.jpg

http://www.urban-photos.com/gallery/albums/city_galleries/minneapolis//minneapolis_6247.jpg

[♣628.8m]

Cottbus- Commieblock redevelopment

http://www.sozialestadt.de/en/veroeffentlichungen/zwischenbilanz/images/2-cottbus_04.jpg

[♣628.8m]

Staatsanwaltschaft Schwerin

http://www.mv-justiz.de/images/sta_sn.jpg

******** *** *********

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/db/Schwerin170507_011.jpg

[ØlandDK]

>>>>>> http://www.skyscrapercity.com/forumdisplay.php?f=477

[10ROT]

We have some "commieblocks" here. Except for the last pic (which is a elderly home), these are all public housing projects in surrounding cities, not Hartford. A friend of mine lives in one of them. :yes:

Here in Hartford, most public housing is low-rise, and they are demolishing them.

Pics by Ex-Ithacan:

http://img519.imageshack.us/img519/7582/44450729obamaap203bsf6.jpg

http://img166.imageshack.us/img166/593/111bo4.jpg

http://img519.imageshack.us/img519/1158/112tg7.jpg

http://img166.imageshack.us/img166/4144/113ru6.jpg

http://img152.imageshack.us/img152/3194/114ky4.jpg

[Posener]

Some commieblocks from Poznań (http://www.aerofoto-kaczmarczyk.com/index.php?option=com_zoom&Itemid=31&catid=87)

Winogrady district
http://www.aerofoto-kaczmarczyk.com/images/zoom/TWTVWF/3_(8).jpg

http://www.aerofoto-kaczmarczyk.com/images/zoom/TWTVWF/DSC_1772_copy.jpg

http://www.aerofoto-kaczmarczyk.com/images/zoom/TWTVWF/Cybina_(139)_kopia.jpg

Rataje district
http://www.aerofoto-kaczmarczyk.com/images/zoom/TWTVWF/Miloslaw_(86)_copy_copy.jpg

http://img176.imageshack.us/img176/6599/orabiaegoao7.jpg

http://img232.imageshack.us/img232/2914/ratajech5.jpg

http://img232.imageshack.us/img232/8277/rataje2ib8.jpg

Most of you will probably say it's horrible, inhuman etc. I lived in estate like these and I must say it was really comfortable.

[hellospank25]

I love commieblocks, they are the best thing ever to be invented :yes: i wish they would build entire cities with commieblocks only

[hellospank25]

Commieblocks in Melbourne

http://i25.tinypic.com/a437ec.jpg

http://i31.tinypic.com/2ms2adf.jpg

[null]

there's a country called CHINA

http://img80.imageshack.us/img80/9291/54039196rn6.jpg

[Iluminat]

Warszawa, Ursynów
http://www.ursynow.org.pl/images/2006_05_Samolot1.jpg
http://www.ursynow.org.pl/images/2006_05_Samolot4.jpg
http://www.ursynow.org.pl/images/2006_05_Samolot7.jpg
http://img0.liveinternet.ru/images/foto/b/1/176/666176/f_6380538.jpg

[Kafkas]

Oldest block neighbourhood of Istanbul - Ataköy

http://img260.imageshack.us/img260/8759/basdoganistd060311032qw9.jpg

http://img523.imageshack.us/img523/2053/atriumtl1.jpg

http://img502.imageshack.us/img502/7598/farukatakoy10ff1.jpg

[Turknology]

Eryaman/Ankara;


http://www.fileden.com/files/2006/11/14/379321/e2%20028.jpg

http://www.fileden.com/files/2006/11/14/379321/e2%20039.jpg

http://www.fileden.com/files/2006/11/14/379321/e2%20042.jpg

[krone23]

Madrid commieblocks are :okay:

http://img501.imageshack.us/img501/3336/5179670kw9.jpg

[LMCA1990]

Are the buildings in my complex considered commie blocks :?

http://a986.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/images01/101/l_27e253e01277febe193f52c874a116c1.jpg

[sharaf air]

they are all over toronto...and i hate them!!

[FTL Beach Bum]

Miami's version...


http://img413.imageshack.us/img413/5291/onemiamirc5.jpg

http://img413.imageshack.us/img413/600/imgonemiami1ea5.jpg

http://img413.imageshack.us/img413/5874/335sbiscayneblvdext3nz8.jpg


http://www.onemiamicondo.com

[koolkid]

sure, good one.

[eklips]

Marseilles in the south of France:

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/232/462635642_b0d853d453.jpg?v=0

[Audiomuse]

We don't have commie block neighborhoods.

We have a few commie block buildings here and there.

[Yörch]

Commiblocks in Mexico City...

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2325/2329797720_fcf7f20065.jpg?v=0

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/18/23106463_790394277e.jpg?v=0

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2324/2432824795_5ac834474a.jpg?v=0

[Daryae_Abi]

My whole city is like that :lol:

http://www.tehran24.com/tehran/wallpapers/teharan-milad01.jpg

http://i59.photobucket.com/albums/g320/alitezar/Hi/afgfdg.jpg

http://i59.photobucket.com/albums/g320/alitezar/AB/PIC_0039.jpg

http://i59.photobucket.com/albums/g320/alitezar/STA/jghjfhfh.jpg

http://i59.photobucket.com/albums/g320/alitezar/Hi/klaystard.jpg

http://www.panoramio.com/photos/original/353064.jpg

[SaiGoNeseKiD]

Hanoi, Vietnam:

http://i208.photobucket.com/albums/bb213/ndtuyen89/HN03_05_08/tn_P1010629.jpg

http://i208.photobucket.com/albums/bb213/ndtuyen89/HN03_05_08/tn_P1010619.jpg

http://i208.photobucket.com/albums/bb213/ndtuyen89/HN03_05_08/tn_P1010558.jpg

http://i208.photobucket.com/albums/bb213/ndtuyen89/HN03_05_08/tn_P1010573.jpg

http://i208.photobucket.com/albums/bb213/ndtuyen89/HN03_05_08/tn_P1010584.jpg

[Vrysxy]

Are the buildings in my complex considered commie blocks :?

http://a986.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/images01/101/l_27e253e01277febe193f52c874a116c1.jpg
Yes, HORRIBLE

[Svartmetall]

I don't know why people dislike commieblocks. As long as they're well maintained, functional, surrounded by green spaces and have good transit links I think they're pretty good!

[10ROT]

They are OK. The thing that I dislike about commieblocks is that they are monotonous for the most part...they all look the same. AND the people who are the fans of these commieblocks are also big haters of suburbs, which are as cookie cutter. That's why I am glad that they are non-existent here where I live.

I prefer diversity when it comes to urban planning. A few here or there isn't a problem.

[dhuwman]

well, commieblocks aren't that attractive, but they provide cheap, efficient housings.

[Xelebes]

I'll have to dig up a good photo of Edmonton's Oliver, Grandin and Rossdale neighbourhoods. However, there is too much of a mix of housing there, but still dominated by commieblocks, I guess.

[Vrysxy]

well, commieblocks aren't that attractive, but they provide cheap, efficient housings.Yeah, but if you have the money and the houses are "cheaper" in the US (for example), why live in a commiebock like those buildings?? By the way, who live there? Poor people?

[Daryae_Abi]

Yeah, but if you have the money and the houses are "cheaper" in the US (for example), why live in a commiebock like those buildings?? By the way, who live there? Poor people?

Depends on which one
But there is one here called Atisaz (the last picture I posted) which is mostly rich and middle class people.

[Kafkas]

I don't know why people dislike commieblocks. As long as they're well maintained, functional, surrounded by green spaces and have good transit links I think they're pretty good!
That's true but unlike normal apartment flats or detached houses they are smaller... Mainly they have 3 rooms, a kitchen, a bathroom and a small balcony which is very depressing. Btw you exposed to listen gossips or screams of your neighbours all the time in a commieblock. Mostly they have depressing architecture style too.

[nuevo-chicago]

Yeah, but if you have the money and the houses are "cheaper" in the US (for example), why live in a commiebock like those buildings?? By the way, who live there? Poor people?

Mostly criminals live in commieblocks at least here in the states.

[siamu maharaj]

I love Commieblocks. Am I weird?

[Iluminat]

I love Commieblocks. Am I weird?

No I feel the same.

[Iluminat]

Depends on which one
But there is one here called Atisaz (the last picture I posted) which is mostly rich and middle class people.

Same with most c'block neiberhoods in Poland poor people ussualy live in old houses with little sun light.

[Jonesy55]

Yeah, but if you have the money and the houses are "cheaper" in the US (for example), why live in a commiebock like those buildings?? By the way, who live there? Poor people?

Many people like to live closer to the centre, to facilities etc and often that means living in an apartment (not a commieblock though neccesarily). If everybody lived in a house on a big plot, very few people could live close to the centre and the city would take up a huge area which would then mean that public transport wouldn't work properly and the city woould have to become car dependant. It would also probably mean that the centre would 'die' in favour of retail malls on the outskirts. Understandably, many people don't like this idea.

Commieblocks are often unattractive but they don't have to be, some are quite nice neighbourhoods with lots of greenery and good public transport.

As for who lives there, in Western Europe it is mostly lower income households but in Eastern Europe it seems to be more mixed.

[eklips]

Still in Marseilles, the La Rouvière district, photo (and caps) by Chrispic. These buildings are very impressive when you see them for real, unfortunately it's a bit hard to find pics on the net.

http://bakalex92.free.fr/mars.jpg

[Turknology]

I love Commieblocks. Am I weird?

Commie blocks always gave me a good feeling.

[PhilippeMtl]

Still in Marseilles, the La Rouvière district, photo (and caps) by Chrispic. These buildings are very impressive when you see them for real, unfortunately it's a bit hard to find pics on the net.

http://bakalex92.free.fr/mars.jpg

Is this commieblock in IAM old school videoclip Petit frere ?
http://youtube.com/watch?v=l2rEdM5x4DU

[Daryae_Abi]

Still in Marseilles, the La Rouvière district, photo (and caps) by Chrispic. These buildings are very impressive when you see them for real, unfortunately it's a bit hard to find pics on the net.

http://bakalex92.free.fr/mars.jpg

I love them :)
I didn't think France had many of this

[GM]

I didn't think France had many of this

France has ton of commieblocks.

Here are some views from my window in Nanterre :

http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y135/Guillaume44/2008_0304Image0007.jpg

http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y135/Guillaume44/2008_0304Image0009-1.jpg

http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y135/Guillaume44/2008_0304Image0011.jpg

[Daryae_Abi]

You live in a nice place. :)
I live in the south of Tehran and most of those kind of buildings in Tehran is in the central city. :(

[LMCA1990]

Another pic of my complex:

http://i104.photobucket.com/albums/m180/lmcm1990/7481752.jpg

My school (graduated though :tongue2: ):

http://i104.photobucket.com/albums/m180/lmcm1990/8049993.jpg

[Vrysxy]

Many people like to live closer to the centre, to facilities etc and often that means living in an apartment (not a commieblock though neccesarily). If everybody lived in a house on a big plot, very few people could live close to the centre and the city would take up a huge area which would then mean that public transport wouldn't work properly and the city woould have to become car dependant. It would also probably mean that the centre would 'die' in favour of retail malls on the outskirts. Understandably, many people don't like this idea.

Commieblocks are often unattractive but they don't have to be, some are quite nice neighbourhoods with lots of greenery and good public transport.

As for who lives there, in Western Europe it is mostly lower income households but in Eastern Europe it seems to be more mixed.I know what u mean, but why do they built those ugly apartment-towers? I mean, if people here in San Diego want to live closer to downtown, they just rent/buy an apartment in a nice tower, we have apartment towers for median-income families and they do not look like those commieblocks from Europe or Asia. Our apartments tower (or condo-towers) look like this.
http://losangeles.condo.com/PropertyUploads/1699208/62993367-7665-4f4a-94c6-20e30a0b43ff_dt.jpg

http://markchoey.files.wordpress.com/2005/12/parkplace_pix.jpg

[nuevo-chicago]

^And how much do they cost to rent? 1100 or 1500 just for a one bedroom room? It wouldn't be worth it and those middle-class families that live there are probably more in debt then you could even begin to imagine.

[eklips]

Is this commieblock in IAM old school videoclip Petit frere ?
http://youtube.com/watch?v=l2rEdM5x4DU

Don't know (I'd have to check) but I don't think so. These huge buildings on the cliff are actually a quite wealthy private residence.

Here are some buildings located in the north-east of central Paris called "les orgues de flandre" (don't know if they would be considered commieblocks by the thread starter but they definitely are residential modernist architecture)

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3132/2412391705_e5b3308b8e_b.jpg

[Daryae_Abi]

I know what u mean, but why do they built those ugly apartment-towers? I mean, if people here in San Diego want to live closer to downtown, they just rent/buy an apartment in a nice tower, we have apartment towers for median-income families and they do not look like those commieblocks from Europe or Asia. Our apartments tower (or condo-towers) look like this.
http://losangeles.condo.com/PropertyUploads/1699208/62993367-7665-4f4a-94c6-20e30a0b43ff_dt.jpg

http://markchoey.files.wordpress.com/2005/12/parkplace_pix.jpg

It's too few. And cost a lot to design completely different buildings.
Anyway, buildings are the most beautiful when they are the same :)

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/fa/thumb/2/25/Ekbatan.JPG/800px-Ekbatan.JPG

http://www.futurama.ir/photoblog/images/eqbatan.jpg

[eklips]

Here's a pano showing the towers of Paris' Chinatown.

http://bloc-notes.thbz.org/images/121/panorama-soir-4700px-annote.jpg

That's how it looks from inside the district
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/33/Paris-olympiades-wikimedia.jpg/300px-Paris-olympiades-wikimedia.jpg

An urban failure in my opinion, those the view at the top of these towers must be breathtaking.

[Kafkas]

whhoooaaaawww:eek2:

[Daryae_Abi]

I like the right side of the picture!
Post more! :)

[Iluminat]

http://markchoey.files.wordpress.com/2005/12/parkplace_pix.jpg
thats fugly...

[eklips]

"La grande Motte" resort on the Mediterranean

http://www.guidesdumidi.com/diaporama/albums/guide_ete05/GRANDE_MOTTE1.jpg

[Jaye101]

St. Jamestown, Toronto, Canada

http://bp0.blogger.com/_NpINLHeo8rM/R6HZiPMJmYI/AAAAAAAAN8w/waRnfTvCcSE/s400/2.jpg

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/102/283211216_c93ed2f2a3.jpg

That picture of Paris is interesting. In Toronto, some of the buildings in St. Jamestown are named after Canadian cities.

[señor cara de papa]

i made a commie block in sketchup a while ago, what do you think of it :

http://i165.photobucket.com/albums/u45/ftorresqueretaro/commie.jpg

[Iluminat]

add some balconies

[10ROT]

Commieblocks in SimCity 4! :D :banana:

http://i110.photobucket.com/albums/n101/rotten777/SimCity/Grafton-Feb23281202016989.png

[Robo_Boss]

"La grande Motte" resort on the Mediterranean

http://www.guidesdumidi.com/diaporama/albums/guide_ete05/GRANDE_MOTTE1.jpg

Do you know what commieblocks are? 'Cause thats not it :)

[Robo_Boss]

Somewhere in Moscow.
http://img169.imageshack.us/img169/5300/ramenskoyehousesrzhdpandm3.jpg

[goschio]

A commieblock from Stuttgart/ Germany:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/61/Asemwald.JPG

[Vrysxy]

^And how much do they cost to rent? 1100 or 1500 just for a one bedroom room? It wouldn't be worth it and those middle-class families that live there are probably more in debt then you could even begin to imagine.No, it's like US$1600 or US$2600, by the way, San Diego is a rich city not poor.

[Jonesy55]

No, it's like US$1600 or US$2600, by the way, San Diego is a rich city not poor.

Yeah, so at say $2,000 per month these are not homes for regular working families. That's $24,000 out of net income per year which is a lot even in a fairly rich city like San Diego. You'd have to be earning more than the local median household income ($65,000?) to afford to live in those places unless you want to spend 50% of your income on housing.

Commieblocks and similar apartments enable people on average or below average incomes to live near to the city centre so they are not really aimed at the same demographic.

[eklips]

Do you know what commieblocks are? 'Cause thats not it :)

Actually the resort has two sides, one that we see on the picture and one that you only see at the end.

In the one at the end the buildings actually do have a block shape, unfortunately I didn't find any pictures after 10 minutes of google search and still wanted to post it :D

You know, commieblock is an expression that was invented on ssc and it does not have a clear definition. ;)

[de flatneuroot]

Here a thread about a typical Dutch version of a commieblock district (http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?t=621487) (Flatwijk in dutch).

[eklips]

A commieblock district in Villeneuve la Garenne, a parisian suburb

http://www.iaurif.org/fr/ressources_doc/mediatheque/phototheque/aerien92_91/g_aerien92_91/ia32144.jpg

[Turknology]

"La grande Motte" resort on the Mediterranean

http://www.guidesdumidi.com/diaporama/albums/guide_ete05/GRANDE_MOTTE1.jpg

I think they're too sophisticated to be commie blocks

[Jonesy55]

I used to live not far from this - I thought it was very cool looking when I first saw it.

http://www.viennaslide.com/p/0530-paris/Viennaslide-05321117.jpg

http://www.viennaslide.com/p/0530-paris/Viennaslide-05321106.jpg

[Kafkas]

Looks Beautiful but what is that?

[Hanshin-Tigress]

what exactly distinguises commieblock from apartment/cheap condo complexes?

[Jonesy55]

Looks Beautiful but what is that?

social housing/commieblock in Paris suburbs.

[Turknology]

what exactly distinguises commieblock from apartment/cheap condo complexes?

I think commie blocks are just 8-12 story buildings that all look more or less the same, two windows at the front, a balcony. Also it changes according to country, some places commie blocks are cheap residentials while in some places they are much more expensive and are for the upper middle class. For example, a friend of mine lived in a flat in what could be called a commie block due to architectural style but the flat was worth 1 Mio USD.

[Jonesy55]

what exactly distinguises commieblock from apartment/cheap condo complexes?

not a lot, commieblock is SSC-speak only I think. Maybe a commieblock has to be publicly owned not privately :dunno:

[Kafkas]

social housing/commieblock in Paris suburbs.

They look like arrchitectural masterpieces. At least the first one.

[Hanshin-Tigress]

hmm cuz i know alot of apartment complexs that would be passed as "commieblocks" but they arent imo

[eklips]

I used to live not far from this - I thought it was very cool looking when I first saw it.


Yeah the Paris agglomeration is full of these modernist or post-modernist hidden architectural curiosities.

Similar to these buildings are those, not far from my university, albeit on a smaller scale (they are hardly what forumers here call commieblocks):

http://www.dkolb.org/sprawlingplaces/images/fullsize/sql.bof.ct.jpg
http://www.dkolb.org/sprawlingplaces/images/fullsize/bofil.quentin.squares.jpg
http://archiguide.free.fr/PH/FRA/IDF/VoiBreLogTemplLacBo.jpg

[10ROT]

New York is the only city in the US that has commieblocks on a grand scale.

However, they call them "projects" or "PJs" for short. :D

http://blogs.business2.com/photos/uncategorized/peter_cooper_village_1.jpg

(not public housing)
http://www.gothamgazette.com/graphics/iotw.2003.10.13.inside.jpg

[TalB]

Stuyvesant Town and Peter Cooper Village, which is the first pic, aren't housing projects, they to are privately owned.

[10ROT]

^^ I always thought they were, honestly. Got confused with Queensbridge.

http://www.wirednewyork.com/queens/images/queensbridge_houses_8feb04.jpg

[I-275westcoastfl]

I know what u mean, but why do they built those ugly apartment-towers? I mean, if people here in San Diego want to live closer to downtown, they just rent/buy an apartment in a nice tower, we have apartment towers for median-income families and they do not look like those commieblocks from Europe or Asia. Our apartments tower (or condo-towers) look like this.
http://losangeles.condo.com/PropertyUploads/1699208/62993367-7665-4f4a-94c6-20e30a0b43ff_dt.jpg

http://markchoey.files.wordpress.com/2005/12/parkplace_pix.jpg
Those are luxury Condos, pretty sure they aren't affordable for the middle class.

[Robo_Boss]

Ancient commieblocks??

http://img127.imageshack.us/img127/2945/1464605934af57aa56b7oir3.jpg

http://img127.imageshack.us/img127/4035/shibamny8.jpg

[Jonesy55]

^^ Where's that? Yemen? Looks great!

[10ROT]

Shibam, Yemen...world's first SkyscraperCity. :)

[goschio]

^
Must have been very impressive back then. Like New York in the 1940s.

[Stifler]

My town has many (awful) commieblocks. That's what happen when a small town becomes five times bigger in a matter of years. The companies built and gave these dwellings to their employees, and now mostly low-income families live there.

http://i40.photobucket.com/albums/e228/Steven_85/aviles/virtual%20earth/aviles15.jpg

[Vrysxy]

Yeah, so at say $2,000 per month these are not homes for regular working families. That's $24,000 out of net income per year which is a lot even in a fairly rich city like San Diego. You'd have to be earning more than the local median household income ($65,000?) to afford to live in those places unless you want to spend 50% of your income on housing.

Commieblocks and similar apartments enable people on average or below average incomes to live near to the city centre so they are not really aimed at the same demographic.Yeah i know, but the thing is that yout dont have to be rich to live there, just upper middle class.

[TalB]

The Penn South Complex, which is located near MSG, isn't a housing project either, but it can pass for one seeing its design.

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/85/275565223_f59dc1936c_o.jpg

[Peshu]

My home town has too many commie blocks ( Toronto ) .In My town of residence commie blocks are virtually non-existant ( Melbourne ) ypu might get a couple of individual buildings known as housing commision flats which are actually pretty good quality . There is absolutely nothing like the concentration of commie blocks you get to see in many European , Asian or American cities .

Thank christ . As those commie blocks make me wanna :puke:

[RawLee]

Some commie-neighbourhoods in Budapest,including mine:
http://img205.imageshack.us/img205/2736/resizeofimg2521un6.jpg

http://img488.imageshack.us/img488/7443/resizeofimg2520yc2.jpg

http://img524.imageshack.us/img524/3531/resizeofimg2571zf1.jpg

http://img166.imageshack.us/img166/6581/resizeofimg2575vd7.jpg

And my neighbourhood:
http://img129.imageshack.us/img129/3246/resizeofimg2646oi0.jpg

http://img129.imageshack.us/img129/9799/resizeofimg2649yv1.jpg

http://img368.imageshack.us/img368/8972/resizeofimg2650zs9.jpg

[FIDEL CASTRO]

My G-d

People are son ignorants. We don't have commie blocks here in America. :bash:
America was never a communist country.

[Hanshin-Tigress]

silly lee

[10ROT]

My G-d

People are son ignorants. We don't have commie blocks here in America. :bash:
America was never a communist country.

It's just a name for an ugly low-income housing project. It's common in plenty of formerly communist nations, but it's in a lot of nations that were not communist (including the US).

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Well, here is Co-Op City in New York. It's not public housing, nor is it filled with poor people, but it's huge. It's a co-op, the largest housing development in the US and the largest co-op development in the world. It has 38,000 people and 35 high rise towers. I actually posted a pic of it before.

When I see this when going down I-95 or the Hutch, I know that I've reached NY. ;)

http://excitingny.com/nyphotos/co-opcityview.jpg

[TalB]

The same can be with Starrett City over in Brooklyn.

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/142/320238112_a480a7073c_o.jpg
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/61/200016485_4e59108fa6_o.jpg
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/38/217778219_c768b8b843_b.jpg

[10ROT]

Wow, cool pics TalB! :okay:

[DFM..Dani]

luckily i haven't seen a commie block where i live :)

[siamu maharaj]

what exactly distinguises commieblock from apartment/cheap condo complexes?
If you ever see an appt complex that you think was designed using just a pencil and a ruler and minimal windows, then it's a Commieblock.

[hellospank25]

There are some awesome commieblock in New York
Very tall and with great views
i wished i lived in one of them :drool:

[Tubeman]

The magnificent Red Road flats in Glasgow:

http://www.geograph.org.uk/photos/11/99/119968_c5d08eaa.jpg

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/83/Red_Road_flats_1.jpg/800px-Red_Road_flats_1.jpg

http://www.loveofscotland.com/pics/redroad1.jpg

[eklips]

^^ impressive blocks Tubeman

La noue district in Montreuil, an eastern parisian suburb:

http://pagesperso-orange.fr/revuesocialisme/la%20noue%204%20vg.JPG

http://www.paris-skyscrapers.fr/photos/1180806329Ds.JPG

[GM]

Le Sillon de Bretagne in Nantes. At the time of its construction (1971-1972), it was the biggest social housing block in Europe, with about 900 flats.

Pics by me :

http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y135/Guillaume44/2007_0212Image016.jpg

http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y135/Guillaume44/2007_0212Image024.jpg

http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y135/Guillaume44/2007_0212Image023.jpg

http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y135/Guillaume44/2007_0212Image019.jpg

http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y135/Guillaume44/2007_0212Image006.jpg

[aaronsummers]

Commie blocks always gave me a good feeling.

I prefer Marxist - Leninist Blocs :cheers:

[monkeyronin]

St. Jamestown, Toronto. 14,000 people in 0.2sqkm.
http://img411.imageshack.us/img411/4177/jamestown2me6.jpg

Thorncliffe, pop. 30,000 (not all visible)
http://img72.imageshack.us/img72/6972/thorncliffe2py3.jpg


Some other "commieblocks" from around Toronto
http://img186.imageshack.us/img186/6185/crescenttownlv7.jpg

http://img214.imageshack.us/img214/726/flemingdon1qe4.jpg

http://img241.imageshack.us/img241/5291/mississaugaws1.jpg

http://img227.imageshack.us/img227/1025/eastyorkru7.jpg

http://img403.imageshack.us/img403/6793/etobicoke3ok7.jpg

http://img403.imageshack.us/img403/5012/etobicoke4cg3.jpg

http://img337.imageshack.us/img337/4830/highpark3gy9.jpg

[Bartolo]

Toronto is big with the Tower in the Park style of apartments

[Astralis]

Some of these commieblocks in Toronto don't look that bad...

[Jonesy55]

The Park Hill estate, Sheffield, UK. Built between 1957 and 1961, these blocks are now protected buildings and can't be demolished. Property development company Urban Splash are giving them a make-over though.

http://www.sheffield-fm.co.uk/park_hill_8206.jpg

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/180/464986123_a9429bb378.jpg

http://www.samscam.co.uk/images/sc.php?400/parkhill.jpg

[Iluminat]

Property development company Urban Splash are giving them a make-over though.

I hope it's just cleaning...

[Jonesy55]

I hope it's just cleaning...

It's a bit more than a clean but the developer has a good record of converting/renovating historic buildings across the North of England.

http://www.urbansplash.co.uk/

http://www.urbansplash.co.uk/documents/FS_ParkHill.pdf

[Sideshow_Bob]

i made a commie block in sketchup a while ago, what do you think of it :

http://i165.photobucket.com/albums/u45/ftorresqueretaro/commie.jpg

It reminds me of a commieblock I know in Stockholm. :)

http://www.abmb.se/ObjMultimedia/Marsta7000ext%20(4).JPG

[Obscene]

Some swedish suburbs.

Hagalund, Solna (Stockholm)
Known as Bluehill:
http://www.elbarrio.se/img/hagalund-1.jpg
http://static.flickr.com/112/276637571_363bffc1e6_o.jpg

Malmvägen, Sollentuna (Stockholm)
http://static.flickr.com/93/252141832_c96cc143f3_b.jpg

Fittja, Botkyrka (Stockholm)
http://www.fittja.nu/bilder/bgbilder/23.jpg
http://www.fittja.nu/bilder/bgbilder/24.jpg

Rågsved, Stockholm
http://i8.photobucket.com/albums/a7/anssi78/Tukholma%2020062303/IMGA7180e.jpg

Täby, Täby (Stockholm) unlike the others considered a desirable place to live (according to the general population atleast..)
http://i8.photobucket.com/albums/a7/anssi78/Tukholma%2020061208/IMGB2494e.jpg
http://i8.photobucket.com/albums/a7/anssi78/Tukholma%2020061208/tabyp3e.jpg

Akalla, Stockholm
http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y16/neopokekun/photos/commieblocks_akalla1.jpg

Farsta
http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y16/neopokekun/photos/commieblocks_farstastrand1.jpg

Bergsjön, Gothenburg (göteborg)
http://teleskopet.se/galleri/medium/0007.jpg

Hammarkullen, Gothenburg
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/df/Hammarkulletorget_trappan.jpg/450px-Hammarkulletorget_trappan.jpg

Rosengård, Malmö
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/44/Apartment_complex_in_Roseng%C3%A5rd,_Malm%C3%B6.jpg/794px-Apartment_complex_in_Roseng%C3%A5rd,_Malm%C3%B6.jpg

[drunkenmunkey888]

New York is the only city in the US that has commieblocks on a grand scale.

However, they call them "projects" or "PJs" for short. :D

http://blogs.business2.com/photos/uncategorized/peter_cooper_village_1.jpg

(not public housing)
http://www.gothamgazette.com/graphics/iotw.2003.10.13.inside.jpg

The amount of commieblocks in NYC rivals that of any eastern european city.

[WANCH]

HK is one city with high-concentrations of public housing and tower blocks.

Here are some neighbourhoods with high concentration.

Photo credit: hkskyline at http://globalphotos.org

HK Island

Wah Fu
http://www.globalphotos.org/hongkong/20051003/OCT03-S02-241.jpg

http://www.globalphotos.org/hongkong/20051003/OCT03-S02-166.jpg

http://www.globalphotos.org/hongkong/20051003/OCT03-S02-181.jpg

The New Territories

Tsing Yi
http://www.globalphotos.org/hongkong/20051003/OCT03-S01-191.jpg

Shatin
http://www.globalphotos.org/hongkong/20050925/SEPT25-050.jpg

[Nikom]

Some in Lisbon,Portugal :)

Rinchoa

http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y67/Barragon/Aereas/Rinchoa.jpg

Odivelas

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b7/OdivelasPortugal.jpg

Mt. Abrão, Queluz

http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y67/Barragon/Aereas/MonteAbraao.jpg

Alfragide

http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y67/Barragon/Alfragide.jpg

http://i34.photobucket.com/albums/d130/fred_mendonca/Alfragide%20e%20Afins/PICT0114.jpg

http://i34.photobucket.com/albums/d130/fred_mendonca/Alfragide%20e%20Afins/PICT0103.jpg

Alfornelos

http://img227.imageshack.us/img227/388/pict4459hb3.jpg

http://img227.imageshack.us/img227/7097/pict4461jv6.jpg

http://img227.imageshack.us/img227/344/pict4464ei3.jpg

Amadora

http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y67/Barragon/CasaldeSoBrs.jpg

Portela, Sacavem

http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y67/Barragon/Portela.jpg

Vila Franca de Xira

http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c64/andrebarragon/Margem%20Norte/IMG_1231.jpg

[princeofseoul]

Japanese commie blocks (=danchi).

Danchi (団地) is a sino-japanese compound word. "Dan" means group and "chi" means earth or land. It means grouplands or commieblocks.

http://worldneighborhoods.com/pictures/download.php?id=792&t=1
A danchi (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danchi). Pictures of Toyosu (http://worldneighborhoods.com/pictures/tokyo-f4/toyosu-t112.html), Tokyo Neighborhoods (http://worldneighborhoods.com/pictures/tokyo-f4/), March 2006.
View picture in 1024x768 pixels. (http://worldneighborhoods.com/pictures/download.php?id=792&mode=view) View Toyosu on map. (http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&geocode=&ll=35.6531989768179760000000000,139.7973775863647500000000000&t=h&z=17&om=0)


http://worldneighborhoods.com/pictures/download.php?id=4342&t=1
Pictures of Toyosu (http://worldneighborhoods.com/pictures/tokyo-f4/toyosu-t112.html), Tokyo Neighborhoods (http://worldneighborhoods.com/pictures/tokyo-f4/), March 2006.
View picture in 1024x768 pixels. (http://worldneighborhoods.com/pictures/download.php?id=4342&mode=view) View Toyosu on map. (http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&geocode=&ll=35.6531989768179760000000000,139.7973775863647500000000000&t=h&z=17&om=0)


http://worldneighborhoods.com/pictures/download.php?id=857&t=1
Super danchi (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danchi) complex. Pictures of Tama Plaza (http://worldneighborhoods.com/pictures/yokohama-f5/tama-plaza-t51.html), Yokohama Neighborhoods (http://worldneighborhoods.com/pictures/yokohama-f5/), 2007.
View picture in 1024x768 pixels. (http://worldneighborhoods.com/pictures/download.php?id=857&mode=view) View Tama Plaza on map. (http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&geocode=&ll=35.5766896440705050000000000,139.5566654205322300000000000&t=h&z=17&om=0)


http://worldneighborhoods.com/pictures/download.php?id=858&t=1
Within the danchi (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danchi). The rent here is not high (perhaps 30,000 per month for 30 square meters) but great luck or "special connections" are needed to get in. Pictures of Tama Plaza (http://worldneighborhoods.com/pictures/yokohama-f5/tama-plaza-t51.html), Yokohama Neighborhoods (http://worldneighborhoods.com/pictures/yokohama-f5/), 2007.
View picture in 1024x768 pixels. (http://worldneighborhoods.com/pictures/download.php?id=858&mode=view) View Tama Plaza on map. (http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&geocode=&ll=35.5766896440705050000000000,139.5566654205322300000000000&t=h&z=17&om=0)


http://worldneighborhoods.com/pictures/download.php?id=833&t=1
Some Danchi (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danchi). Pictures of Futako Tamagawa (http://worldneighborhoods.com/pictures/tokyo-f4/futako-tamagawa-t9.html), Tokyo Neighborhoods (http://worldneighborhoods.com/pictures/tokyo-f4/), 2007.
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[princeofseoul]

Some pics of Korean commieblocks, also called danchi. In sino-korean danchi means the same as danchi in sino-japanese, i.e. groupland.

http://worldneighborhoods.com/pictures/download.php?id=1411&t=1
Pictures of Guseo-dong (http://worldneighborhoods.com/pictures/busan-f36/guseo-dong-t195.html), Busan Neighborhoods (http://worldneighborhoods.com/pictures/busan-f36/), February 2008.
View picture in 1024x768 pixels. (http://worldneighborhoods.com/pictures/download.php?id=1411&mode=view) View Guseo-dong on map. (http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&geocode=&ll=35.2472838736072160000000000,129.0910935401916500000000000&t=h&z=17&om=0)

http://worldneighborhoods.com/pictures/download.php?id=1563&t=1
Pictures of Guseo-dong (http://worldneighborhoods.com/pictures/busan-f36/guseo-dong-t195.html), Busan Neighborhoods (http://worldneighborhoods.com/pictures/busan-f36/), February 2008.
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http://worldneighborhoods.com/pictures/download.php?id=1597&t=1
The stream and the commie blocks (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tower_block). Pictures of Beomosa (http://worldneighborhoods.com/pictures/busan-f36/beomosa-t197.html), Busan Neighborhoods (http://worldneighborhoods.com/pictures/busan-f36/), February 2008.
View picture in 768x1024 pixels. (http://worldneighborhoods.com/pictures/download.php?id=1597&mode=view) View Beomosa on map. (http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&geocode=&ll=35.2720062042400200000000000,129.0908145904541000000000000&t=h&z=17&om=0)


http://worldneighborhoods.com/pictures/download.php?id=1428&t=1
Entrance to commieblock complex. A bit ugly but they provide a good standard of living for the middle class. Pictures of Jangjeon-dong (http://worldneighborhoods.com/pictures/busan-f36/jangjeon-dong-t187.html), Busan Neighborhoods (http://worldneighborhoods.com/pictures/busan-f36/), February 2008.
View picture in 1024x768 pixels. (http://worldneighborhoods.com/pictures/download.php?id=1428&mode=view) View Jangjeon-dong on map. (http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&geocode=&ll=35.2376977808717400000000000,129.0879178047180200000000000&t=h&z=17&om=0)


http://worldneighborhoods.com/pictures/download.php?id=1369&t=1
Pictures of Busandae (http://worldneighborhoods.com/pictures/busan-f36/busandae-t188.html), Busan Neighborhoods (http://worldneighborhoods.com/pictures/busan-f36/), February 2008.
View picture in 1024x768 pixels. (http://worldneighborhoods.com/pictures/download.php?id=1369&mode=view) View Busandae on map. (http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&geocode=&ll=35.2292761557885900000000000,129.0889048576355000000000000&t=h&z=17&om=0)


http://worldneighborhoods.com/pictures/download.php?id=2835&t=1
Gireum Centreville -- a complex of 20 towers of 23 stories each. Pictures of Gireum (http://worldneighborhoods.com/pictures/seoul-f44/gireum-t258.html), Seoul Neighborhoods (http://worldneighborhoods.com/pictures/seoul-f44/), April 2007.
View picture in 990x730 pixels. (http://worldneighborhoods.com/pictures/download.php?id=2835&mode=view) View Gireum on map. (http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&geocode=&ll=37.6047377398514700000000000,127.0255351066589400000000000&t=h&z=17&om=0)


http://worldneighborhoods.com/pictures/download.php?id=1879&t=1
Typical danchi complex. The cost is around 250 million wons (250,000$US) for 90 square meters. Pictures of Daewha (http://worldneighborhoods.com/pictures/goyang-f42/daewha-t219.html), Goyang Neighborhoods (http://worldneighborhoods.com/pictures/goyang-f42/), February 2007.
View picture in 1002x736 pixels. (http://worldneighborhoods.com/pictures/download.php?id=1879&mode=view) View Daewha on map. (http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&geocode=&ll=37.6892542140253000000000000,126.7557048797607400000000000&t=h&z=17&om=0)


http://worldneighborhoods.com/pictures/download.php?id=3337&t=1
Pictures of Daewha (http://worldneighborhoods.com/pictures/goyang-f42/daewha-t219.html), Goyang Neighborhoods (http://worldneighborhoods.com/pictures/goyang-f42/), February 2007.
View picture in 1024x768 pixels. (http://worldneighborhoods.com/pictures/download.php?id=3337&mode=view) View Daewha on map. (http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&geocode=&ll=37.6892542140253000000000000,126.7557048797607400000000000&t=h&z=17&om=0)

http://worldneighborhoods.com/pictures/download.php?id=3339&t=1
Typical garage of commie apartment blocks. Pictures of Daewha (http://worldneighborhoods.com/pictures/goyang-f42/daewha-t219.html), Goyang Neighborhoods (http://worldneighborhoods.com/pictures/goyang-f42/), February 2007.
View picture in 1024x768 pixels. (http://worldneighborhoods.com/pictures/download.php?id=3339&mode=view) View Daewha on map. (http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&geocode=&ll=37.6892542140253000000000000,126.7557048797607400000000000&t=h&z=17&om=0)

http://worldneighborhoods.com/pictures/download.php?id=3340&t=1
Inside the commieblock. Pictures of Daewha (http://worldneighborhoods.com/pictures/goyang-f42/daewha-t219.html), Goyang Neighborhoods (http://worldneighborhoods.com/pictures/goyang-f42/), February 2007.
View picture in 1024x768 pixels. (http://worldneighborhoods.com/pictures/download.php?id=3340&mode=view) View Daewha on map. (http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&geocode=&ll=37.6892542140253000000000000,126.7557048797607400000000000&t=h&z=17&om=0)

http://worldneighborhoods.com/pictures/download.php?id=3343&t=1
Inside the commie block. Typical of korean apartments: no balcony but a veranda. Pictures of Daewha (http://worldneighborhoods.com/pictures/goyang-f42/daewha-t219.html), Goyang Neighborhoods (http://worldneighborhoods.com/pictures/goyang-f42/), February 2007.
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[krudmonk]

From an aesthetic viewpoint, these are a thousand times worse than McMansions. They are hideous and depressing. They look like 1960s skyscraper stumps, but with parking lots.

[Sideshow_Bob]

/\ Why compare them with Mc Mansions? :nuts:

[krudmonk]

/\ Why compare them with Mc Mansions? :nuts:
Because they're both unimaginative, utilitarian and hideous.

[particlez]

Because they're both unimaginative, utilitarian and hideous

yes they're both aesthetically lacking. but commieblocks actually make sense in many other aspects, whereas mcmansions are rightly criticized as the embodiment of the worst of post industrial, overconsuming, environmentally degradating, faux historicist architecture.

apart from their often bad aesthetics (blame low budgets and pre-fab architecture, not density height), commieblock buildings unfortunately have been conflated with both the modernist ghettoes of the postwar western world, and with the proletarian dwellings of the discredited marxist regimes.

people should not equate high density prefab architecture with the robert taylor homes. the ghettoes of america were built at a time of de-industrialization, white flight, increased automobile usage, a hollowing out of the welfare state, etc. the commieblocks weren't the cause of this decline, they were merely built at the time of it.

before people cite jane jacobs to refute this argument, remember that jane jacobs was opposed to the wholesale demolition of certain politically and socially disempowered neighborhoods (the ones with colored folks), and the wholesale paving of freeways over the previously poor yet functioning neighborhoods.

[Nielsiej13]

Bijlmer - Amsterdam

http://bp2.blogger.com/_NpINLHeo8rM/R6HYpvMJmII/AAAAAAAAN6w/ntR_2wjkkx8/s1600/14.JPG

Rennes !!

http://bp1.blogger.com/_NpINLHeo8rM/R6HXdfMJl0I/AAAAAAAAN4Q/I20SJ0vVn0g/s1600/34.jpg

http://bp2.blogger.com/_NpINLHeo8rM/R6HXxvMJl9I/AAAAAAAAN5Y/LIeOZrLcOaE/s1600/33.jpg

http://bp2.blogger.com/_NpINLHeo8rM/R6HXdvMJl1I/AAAAAAAAN4Y/Bn_6kfuSLsw/s1600/35.jpg

[♣628.8m]

http://worldneighborhoods.com/pictures/download.php?id=857&t=1

http://worldneighborhoods.com/pictures/download.php?id=833&t=1


Japanese commie-neighbourhoods are beautiful! :cheers:

[zachus22]

Is it safe to say that New York and Toronto are the commieblock capitals of North America?

[Iluminat]

http://lh3.ggpht.com/paulina.szmit/R1GTszcSMFI/AAAAAAAAJ8k/BVb7rd22uJM/PA010038.JPG?imgmax=512
commieblocks and water a perfect combination :drool:

[mgk920]

Is it safe to say that New York and Toronto are the commieblock capitals of North America?
Isn't a central requirement of a 'commieblock' that it must have been built by a government-run housing agency?

If so, then NYC would certainly be tops in that department.

I don't consider high-density residential buildings built on a 'market rate' basis by private developers to be true 'commieblocks', even though some of them might look like them. Ie, some people might think of the Lakeshore East complex, as well as some of the other high-rises in the area, in Chicago to have many (at least on the surface) attributes of 'commieblocks', but I would never think of them in such a manner. OTOH, most of the Chicago Housing Authority's 'projects', many now gone, certainly are/were.

Mike

[WANCH]

Is it safe to say that New York and Toronto are the commieblock capitals of North America?

There was also Chicago but they demolished most of them including the infamous Cabrini Green.

[eklips]

Is it safe to say that New York and Toronto are the commieblock capitals of North America?

There are many blocks in DC as well.

[monkeyronin]

There are many blocks in DC as well.

Now that I look, there certainly do seem to be alot, but not nearly as many as NY and TO. Even Chicago probably has more, Montreal too. DC's are mostly low-rise as well, so a much smaller share of the population actually lives in one.


Anyway, I found this and thought it was interesting - a map of Toronto showing apartment towers constructed between 1945 and 1980s-ish. Mostly in the 60s and 70s however.

http://img210.imageshack.us/img210/5335/city1annotatedsmuo3.jpg

[OMH]

Is it safe to say that New York and Toronto are the commieblock capitals of North America?

Toronto really has a lot of commieblocks (70's apartment towers), probably more than i've seen in any other city, even in Europe(probably some EE cities have more and possibly Paris or Berlin have more,though none of the cities that i know have more.) NYC also seems to have a lot, though my guess would be that
Toronto has more (they seem to be everywhere in Toronto, in almost every district, especially in North York there are tons of them), though most of them seem to be rental apartments rather than public housing, i wonder that there're so many commies in Toronto ,anybody knows why ? was there such a huge demand for them in the 60's and 70's?

[WANCH]

Yes DC's blocks are mostly low-rise. Outside NY and Chicago, commieblocks are mostly low to mid-rise. Other US cities with high concentrations of commieblocks that still exist today would be Buffalo and Detroit.

There were major projects in other US cities but were demolished. One infamous project would be the pruitt iggoe housing in Saint Louis, MO.

http://www.pbase.com/jivecity/image/48137716.jpg

This housing were actually designed by Minoru Yamasaki who designed the WTC in NY.

[Astralis]

This one in St. Louis looks massive :yes:.

[particlez]

eh, that was demolished in 1972. pruitt igoe was hailed as an architectural breakthrough, then criticized as a hellhole a few years later.

[Astralis]

Yeah... too bad for that though :dunno:. It didn't look bad at all.

[Momo1435]

A nice pruitt iggoe movie:

DHKhk4oZMro

[ovem]

athens... not really commie blocks but looks like especially the 1st one... most of them are offices...
office: http://i189.photobucket.com/albums/z188/ovem/athens.jpg
hotel: http://i189.photobucket.com/albums/z188/ovem/athens2.jpg
office:http://i189.photobucket.com/albums/z188/ovem/athens3.jpg
office:http://i189.photobucket.com/albums/z188/ovem/athens4.jpg
luxury houses:http://i189.photobucket.com/albums/z188/ovem/athens5.jpg

[Ian]

Commieblocks in Buenos Aires...

Villa Lugano neighborhood, really scary... :shifty:


http://img130.imageshack.us/img130/732/dsc036287dg.jpg

http://img151.imageshack.us/img151/3374/dsc036329qa.jpg

La Calle Soldado de la Frontera que va por la mitad del barrio

http://img130.imageshack.us/img130/3171/dsc036335sh.jpg

Premetro

http://img151.imageshack.us/img151/9105/dsc036358em.jpg

http://img329.imageshack.us/img329/6012/dsc036408em.jpg

^^ all the pics by gusdreams

[Iluminat]

impressive

[WANCH]

eh, that was demolished in 1972. pruitt igoe was hailed as an architectural breakthrough, then criticized as a hellhole a few years later.

One reason is the segregation plan for its residents. One area of Pruitt Igoe were for caucasians while the other were for african americans.

Another is the lack of government support plus the "skip stop" lifts

[adrimm]

Another pic of my complex:

http://i104.photobucket.com/albums/m180/lmcm1990/7481752.jpg

My school (graduated though :tongue2: ):




I would not consider your complex to be "commie block", 1) its not as massive, and 2) it has some colour. Actually I wouldn't consider about 40% of the pictures posted on this thread to be true commie blocks - they have more interest to them, or are smaller than the bland massive expanses. The BAs buildings are pretty spot on tho.

For me the quintessential commieblocks are still those that are found surrounding the cities of the former soviet union. Prague . I think that they are ugly, but the one I stayed in (Hurka, great Prague) had great selection of shops, restuarants & services along the ground floor of each building, the metro station was right there. Aside from the lack of cheer, balcony and ensuite laundry, it was very livable.

I couldn't find a picture of Hurka, but this is the next stop on the metro: Luziny, also Prague (the part tourists don't usually go to).

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/26/49733586_a22164f1b0.jpg

[Jonesy55]

One reason is the segregation plan for its residents. One area of Pruitt Igoe were for caucasians while the other were for african americans.

:wtf: Was that legal??

[WANCH]

:wtf: Was that legal??

Definitely no!

Here's from Wikipedia

Designed in 1951 by architect Minoru Yamasaki (who would later design New York's World Trade Center), the complex was named for St. Louisans Wendell O. Pruitt, an African-American fighter pilot in World War II, and William L. Igoe, a former U.S. Congressional representative. Originally, the city planned two partitions: Pruitt for black residents, and Igoe for whites. But as segregation was ruled unconstitutional in the 1954 Supreme Court case Brown v. Board of Education, the project was opened as racially integrated that same year. But within two years, most white residents had found the means to relocate.

[DJZG]

Zagreb commieblocks...

http://www.merlin-world.com/gallery2/d/9473-1/Knezija.jpg

http://www.merlin-world.com/gallery2/d/9439-1/Dugave.jpg

http://www.merlin-world.com/gallery2/d/9441-1/Novi-Zagreb.jpg

http://www.hrphotocontest.com/data/gallery1/2985/76690.jpg

[born_ejty_siks]

Katowice - Os.Tysiaclecia [Poland]
my favorite :D

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ea/Tysiaclecie2005.jpg/800px-

http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y120/olekbest/SLSK261120065.jpg

http://images24.fotosik.pl/88/ed6e5a0161f6aa86.jpg

http://bi.gazeta.pl/im/5/4084/z4084125X.jpg

http://bi.gazeta.pl/im/8/4084/z4084138X.jpg

[BRANDNAME]

Nice, but not like Berlin-Marzahn, can you see the Television Tower of Berlin?

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4b/Berlin_marzahn_panorama.jpg

[WANCH]

Since I'm in Manila right now, how about some commies from this city :)

http://i8.photobucket.com/albums/a41/hkwanch/mph2.jpg

http://www.abc.net.au/rn/features/worldwaste/images/philippines/20.jpg

http://www.abc.net.au/rn/features/worldwaste/images/philippines/19.jpg