real estate ladies and gentlemen 😎

Truly a horrific time we live in where German global supremacy is growing again

Too bad Germany can’t reclaim itself😂

isn't that an Oasis tune? "Lidl buy Lidl, I gave everything you ever dreamed of..." or something like that

ba dum tss...

Going from the National Socialists to the Soviet Socialists wasn't that different lol

@@Gerwulf97 while demolishing historical buildings isn't great, it definitely isn't as bad as trying to exterminate the jewish and roma minorities

Expelling the germans only for one day a german brand of supermarkets to take over.

@@kim2894 expelling them was right decision. Ah yes I will rather buy from Lidl than any other store with shitty products from Poland.

@@Gerwulf97 it was worse.

afaik it was bombed more than most Czech cities, that church he spoke about is tilted to this day from the bombing

@@lukebruce5234 Correct, it was bombed by mistake though, they thought it was Dresden

@@MarekMottl false

Well, under communism every city must be equal. can't have a non destroyed city when there are cities like Stalingrad.

@@GermanTopGameTV When communism tries to make everyone equal, it does so by lowering the top down to the bottom, not by raising the bottom up to the top.

Gotta make room for those 10,000-lane highways and parking lots the size of 5 football fields. It's the way of the future don't you know?

For years, the Detroit solution was to board buildings up and “consider alternatives”- which meant wait a couple decades until trees were growing out of the roof and then declare them unsalvageable.

- Dynamite goes boom

@@generalaccount6531 Highways were needed in many places, just maybe not 10,000 lane ones.

You can't restore all of them. Look at Italy it keeps almost everything (still not everything), but so many buildings are in disrepair, crumbling, even palaces are loosing their unique details.

That's what the US and Canada did with their cities as well, which is really sad. Regular, functional buildings in their downtowns, which were then very walkable, were demolished to make room for parking spots.

@@namenamename390 idk what you are talking about lol, Canadian cities are great, yes stuff gets torn down to increase density. Old North American builds hardly compare to old European ones that are much older

@@therealbuba all major Canadian cities were built before the automobile age. Look at London, Ontario. It had a downtown like any other city, be it Europe, America, Asia or whatever. This meant big buildings with shops, apartments and other jobs in walking distance. After the 2nd world war, the US and Canada decided that everyone should drive everywhere all the time, so they built suburbs around the city that require a car to do anything. The new amount of cars on the road required a lot of parking space, so they tore down the existing buildings in the downtown, either for outright parking lots/garages or to build big box stores with bigger parking spaces than retail space. This happened in London, Ontario, as well as pretty much all other cities in the US and Canada from the end of WW2 to around the 60s to 80s, sometimes even longer, until people realized that having everyone drive everywhere is a bad idea. Some cities have tried to reverse the damage done, which I assume is the "demolition to increase density" you mentioned. That's in modern times, I was referring to the decades gone by. The demolition of downtowns also included the removal of a lot of public transportation options on many occasions. Toronto and Vancouver are rare exceptions in that regard, as in you can actually use it, but many cities in Canada are just as car dependant as the US. I'm not saying that there are no great places to live in North America, but a lot of formerly great places were destroyed to make room for the car.

@@namenamename390 You're right. I have an uncle in Canada, he lives in the suburbs of Edmonton. I find it discouraging how necessary a car there is. Empty streets, all in cars. As if only homeless people are walking. I live in Prague and I really don't need a car here, because a very reliable public transport system works. People are used to walking more on the streets, sitting in cafes and beer gardens, parents go to the parks with their children, to the playground...

This process is called brusselization

They saved the cathedral, though. That's a cool story.

Which city is this?

@@howtoappearincompletely9739 The wonderful part about this anecdote is that it can be ANY American city!

Just one more lane bro, that will fix traffic forever

And those empty fields where there should be blocks of housing is like when you don’t zone in 3 fields because there is no demand for housing.

They looked like ruins or slums. I wouldn't say they look good.

@@ligametis Now. That's from decades of neglect. Back when they were built, it was a shiny new city. You have to maintain your infrastructure.

Socialists and communists always want to take things. Even the freaking names of streets. They never build anything new, they just leave their mark on the things others built.

@@SuperPhunThyme9 You know Warsaw was rebuilt on the ruins of a pre-war city right? "Why are all the streets the same name?"

@@SuperPhunThyme9 they have built most housing, most hospitals, most roads, most schools. Haven't you seen how many soviet apartments buildings there are. Even in this video he showed whole districts.

don't forget that ALOT of historical buildings were destroyed by the US in the firebombings

@@casperl8408 Yes and while it's true that not an insignificant number of historical buildings might still be in place if it weren't for that, it's already getting harder and harder to find buildings in major cities built as late as the sixties.

Japan is kind of a different beast, I would gladly take a modern white box instead of an intricate old building if the former is way more likely to not kill me during an earthquake

Americans burned every almost single Japanese city to the ground, of course no old building will be left

Well, the Japanese contracted a US based firm, USAAF, to assist in urban rejuvenation during the mid 1940's due to their exceptional demolition skills...

Disgusting.

Wich city?

@@dd3715 Dundee

sad

In Berlin our historic core was replaced with awful socialist style "Neo-historical" concrete gibberish (Nikolaiviertel)

Return of the Germans

I was thinking more along the lines of we don't really have very many historic buildings in the US we usually don't let them stick around for that long.

The Communists did nothing wrong.

well, entire Miensk city ( which was and is capital of Belarus) was Destroyed by Moscow Marxist occupiers after WW2 , the only one European capital , we will never forgive Moscow empire for this

@@hybridarmyofthegdl2193 85% of misnk's infrastructure was destroyed via bombing during world war II

@@pequenoperezoso3743 Ivan´s poodle, whats about Warszawa? check out pictures from 1944

@@hybridarmyofthegdl2193 ok but what is the context of that in regards to a video about communist urban planning?

@@ryhanzfx1641 this Ethnocide Moscow Marxist occupiers called "communist urban planning"

Kaliningrad might be an extrem example, since Königsberg was almost completely destroyed during WW2 and the Soviet Union, with its plan to establish the area as a military base with resettled citizens form the USSR, had no interest in rebuilding anything of the old city.

Interesting. For decades the Soviets boasted how they captured Kraków without any major destruction (unlike other Polish cities) labelling it as a "strategic genius of Marshal Ivan Konev", however modern historians consider it more of a lucky coincidence resulting from a pre-planned Nazi German retreat and lack of major resistance - unlike in Wrocław a.k.a "Festung Breslau" i.e. "the Fortress".

@@KonradofKrakow lol

Given how bad I perceive the politics here to be (in my media bubble at least), it's so reassuring to see people still moving to here. (Although from a country like Belarus it's understandable.) Welcome!

The USSR intentionally destroyed any vestiges of German culture in East Prussia, so that naturally includes the architecture.

Who cares if it's ugly as long as it's effective?

@@thewhitefalcon8539 It’s effectively ugly and does it’s job at giving everyone motion sickness above the 12th floor.

@@ondrejsedlak4935 Oh, that must be why they invented tuned mass dampers!

@@thewhitefalcon8539 Exactly. But seriously that building used to sway like a ship at sea, probably still does. Gotta love government projects.

@@ondrejsedlak4935 Sure, I have to be wary of the phrase "government projects" though, many people throw the baby out with the bathwater when they talk about government so generally.

what a bless to find you here

In my "city" too (the Netherlands)

It's not "they are building it". The put the property "for sale", and Lidl applies.

My village next to Prague had a few empty blocks and a lot of traffic issues, so they decided to build a shit ton of warehouses, to worsen the traffic problem. When that plan didn't go through, they build Lidl instead.

A Lidl what?

Yeah, but not due to urban planning but due to mining. And making a video titled: "How the hunger after coal destroyed several cities" would be about a different topic

But to be honest, its destruction was done during communism era but it had been discussed for a long time. Coal was so valuable and close to surface there that even before the WWI this discussion had been taken place.

Try Žďár nad Sázavou, it"s another one of those socialist model cities and it wasn't thanks to mining. Also it's not unique to communist planners, see cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pra%C5%BEsk%C3%A1_asanace for large scale demolition and rebuilding of Prague's Jewish quarter in the very city center at the end of 19th century.

just blow up all CCP building, move to a western country you need! forget this trash! If the economy is good again, 3021? rebuild the old building again!

Also used to be a German-inhabited city. Seems to be a pattern...

It has been like this all throughout the history. Even nowadays some brutalist building will survive and will be preserved due to lack of money to build a new glass box. Most of what we have was preserved by pure luck and not some strict policies. Especially if we are talking about pre 1900s period. Back then if people didn't have money they simply reused most of old building, at least its walls, and then improved a bit, expanded by building some extra floors on top.

@@ligametis If this is the way we are going architects may at smome point do away with walls altogether and just build steel skeletons.

Someone might argue that Europe was saved from communism by communism's lack of money (or better, poor economy) :)

@@m.m.511 at least that played a very large role in shattering Soviet Union. But if economy succeed maybe communism wouldn't be so bad after all and other countries would have also joined. But now we know this is a failed system.

@@ligametis yeah that's true but only partially. Chinese "communism" (more like state capitalism) is indeed bringing wealth and that's great but I wouldn't want their way of governing in Europe. Of course if communism could have bringed wealth, equality and freedom than yeah it would be great.

Los angeles has a historic city center?

@@kristijanpavlovic I didn't notice. *blows entire city to kingdom come*

@@kristijanpavlovic It doesn't if you're European. It was built between 1907 and 1931, so it's... kinda new, really.

@@cooperised exactly, im European so historic to me would mean something at least pre 20th century.

@@kristijanpavlovic Yup, my house was built around 1750 and it's not considered an interesting building.

atleast that guy got what he deserved. lead

They also rotated the church wrong lmao

The film The Bridge at Remagen was shot there for precisely that reason. UA was like, "You mean they're gonna level that whole town? Lets shoot our WWII film there. PRODUCTION VALUE!!$$"

1000 years old famous city with big medieval churches and houses completely demolished. Coal excavated after few decades. And now there is a lake named...Most

@@PareliusC same thing for the War for the Moscow

That would have made a crazy Massive Moves episode, wouldn't it? haha. All that for a coal mine...

You also have Aldis or only Lidls?

@@Tobi-ln9xr I guess both , cz we have both in Spain and Iv seen lidls in Portugal and France too

Lidl is awsome honestly

@@Tobi-ln9xr No Aldi in Czechia, we have Lidl, Albert, Tesco, Penny Market, Kaufland, Norma, Billa and some others

WTF did I do to you?

Don't give them ideas

Lmao rly? what happened in Belgium? y'all got amazing arhitecture, especially the Palace of Justice in Brussells and many others.

@@royale7620 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brusselization

I think someone in the west europe really doesn't get a scale of the problem.

@@retro2103 thanks, thats so sad though 😪

I didn't know the Americans had historical buildings.

Check England out, every town and city has had massive demolition to make way for garbage looking buildings.

Recently in my town two 1930 stone homes were torn down to make way for a fast food bldg made out of shipping containers. This was after they tore down a 1800s School house to make room for a drive way to a new business. This was done late at night.

Why with this inferiority complex the european have with the US.. Just admit it US is much more advanced and modern than europe..

@@alnash1433 lol if it makes you feel good then by all means. Countries are just countries, with good sides and bad.

@@alnash1433 oh right, more modern with shittier healthcare, transport and wealth distribution.

A difference for sure, but not a huge one, they are pretty similiar peoples

@@evzenvarga9707 if they could even understand each others language 🙃

Really ? There settlements are more known, east and south of the Tatra, not as far west as Usti.

@@gamermapper About as similar as Germans and Americans but ok

@@gamermapper there are actually a lot of Germans in the USA tho. Granted they are only ethnically so.

Really? Everywhere? I live in Czechia, too and don´t have that feeling:)

Czechia… you must be czechian

just because they supported Hitler doesnt mean they cant live there

Somewhat situation with large scale expulsion happened in Poland. Though it went with 2 waves with Polish people being kicked out of land given to Ukraine and Germans kicked out of now Polish Silesia. My home village/town was about 5k tiny German community with its own sub-culture that even had a specific costume, after the war German farms were given to people who signed up to farm it, like my grandfather who moved from the East (not all the way from Lviv, but halfway from Lublin). My other grandfather moved to the nearby city from Zamosc. So those 2 families were parts of the big migration west even though they were not expelled themselves and did not cross nation borders. Until about 2000 there was a yearly trip of the Shunwald oldies visiting the village they were kicked out of, when I was a kid they used 2 buses, than 1 bus, I don't live there but I think they stopped organizing it before I moved out. Similarly for Polish oldies from Lviv there was a lot of nostalgia including a radio station dedicated to Kresy, but with so many years now passed for their children and grand children that's a line on the map. Here economic impact is mixed. There were areas that were hard hit after expulsion of Germans but by now region is doing pretty good. Fortunately a lot of the architecture survived. The biggest destroyer of townhouses was having unknown or absent foreign owners. Sometimes very well placed and highly valued building would just rot until demolition because a few people living there were squatting and it was impossible to pin down ownership. Sometimes with similar townhouse on its left and right being renovated and fully rented as there was demand for that space. Disputes over post-war ownership were still going on in this decade, but it seems they're almost all closed by now. I live now in Katowice and vast majority of German-built buildings are in good shape, with the few that were still recently neglected being renovated now, so it seems they sorted it barely in time to save that architecture.

Lidls sprouted up all over the UK i the span of a few short years too, they must have some very persuasive people.

@@Tuberuser187 glory to the lidl empire

Lidl is recolonizing Georgia-US too.. not long before their war with Ikea starts

Usti nad Lidl

They legit few months ago demolished an big building here in lithuania city i live in to build lidl

Interesting that this happened in Taiwan as well. I think in (mainland) China, it's still happening on a large scale, though, with the city authorities throwing people out to demolish and rebuild for a better (more money) purpose.

@@DesertsOfHighfleet yes it's VERY good efficiency, but everything else is uhh.....

First thought I have is that the decades plus of sheer japanese brutality and wars of conquest of China probably didn't make them want to appreciate the Japanese empires culture and heritage.

I have heard Tokyo was never thought out well. Because all the houses are SO FAR from where people work.

@@Gerwulf97 That’s true. They think tearing down Japanese-built stuffs means “decolonization ”. On the other hand, the KMT dictatorship was also incompetent, lack of resources and political will to do proper urban planning. Because they were preoccupied with their struggle for keeping their power. Basically they just had some American trained architects working with American experts to built a car-centric cities, regardless of local context and well-being of the residents. It turned out… not too well, I guess you know what I mean😅

I think that apart from Most, Usti got it worst, no? Most is a true horror story where the commies even praise themselves for moving the church. One church in a city that had the most gothic buildings after Prague...

The Germans need to rebuild it, they need to rebuild every damage, finish that war now!

The saxonian switzerland on the German side of the mountains is also really beautiful!

Bucharest is a balkan city, and it was very small in the early 20th cenury, in 1910 it had only 300 000 inhabitants. The cheap communist ferro-concrete block-of-flat building project made it bigger city.

The soviet one was great though, but people just didn't maintain it and that's why it looks ugly today.

@@DacLMK No, it wasn't. People didn't maintain it because they didn't care about these places. Why? Because these places (aesthetically) do not care about them and have no relation to them. Furthermore, it destroyed the main components of what makes a city a city. You should really read "The Death and Life of Great American Cities" by Jane Jacobs - one of the most influential urban planning books that explains why this type of planning is bad visually, socially, and economically.

@@Daniel-jv1ku instead of naming the book, cant you just quote the argument?

@@Daniel-jv1ku People didn't maintain it because the economy collapsed in the 1990s, not because of aesthetics lmao.

@@andro7862 Of course the economy has to do with it, too. But why do you think historic buildings are usually maintained well? Because people love them. Build something that most people like, and they will be more likely to take care of it.

@@petergecse3550 By "Czech", I referred to the nation in which they are presently situated, not the ethnicity of their founders or current majority populations. Besides, during the monarchy, even places _without_ notable German populations were given German names (alongside the native ones) because of the multilingual nature of the empire.

@@fds7476 You are right, but you exclusivly brought up places with formerly notable german populatins

@@Getahin True.

And most of those cities were ethnically predominantly German up until WW2.

It's vice versa, most of cities in eastern Germany have slavic origin names.

For me as an European is such a strange way or doing things , in my country there are buildings really old and if u can’t repair them u can remake them in almost the same way , sometimes they are historical buildings ,or made in an arquitectonic style no longer used

Want to know something more depressing than communist architecture? Homelessness

​@@JDG-hq8gy How to help the depressed homeless? Build them depressing buildings. Brilliant.

@@tommyhatcher3399 Would you rather live in a depressing home or have no home at all?

@@JDG-hq8gy Would you rather eat rat meat or not eat at all?

We must have had a totalitarian regime then in the city where I lived in Maryland. They replaced the old town center with a big concrete shopping mall that no businesses wanted to move into and it’s sat empty for the next 40 years. Bad planning and architecture is everywhere, no need to mix it up with politics.

China surely is expert on that. Notably what we've seen in Xinjiang. But it isn't the only example in the region. Shanghai, Chongqing, and even Beijing would qualify as well.

I think you should ask someone who actually lives there to do that, it is a pain doing research remotely :)

Som Malmöbo kan jag bara instämma. Kanske det värsta exemplet i Sverige.

Well fortunately Czechia is not in Eastern Europe, so all safe here!

Wow and I thought that only communist were such idiots. Good to hear

Malmö and Stockholm was raped before recognition

same

Don`t you know what song is that ?

@@volkem7985 ?

@@volkem7985 Karel Gott srdce nehasnou

@@patrikuschungus4713 thank you a lot man

They are going to fix it in the next few years. The main road is going around the city now, so the main road in the middle will be remodeled into something more human scale.

How about bombardments by nazis in june 41? Estonians don't study that in school any more, do they?

@@pochtet they are very anti Soviet. I don't blame them tho, but every Estonian I have talked too hates everything about the Soviet Union, it's not any hatred, it's a deep scathing hatred. But yet again the Soviets did so terrible shit to them.

@@pochtet The bomarding wasn't THAT severe, though. It also focused more on strategic targets, where as the soviets fired grenades in blind rage.

@@pochtet not to forget that Estonians and Germans fought side by side to drive out the Soviets. :) Yeah, it wasn't all happy dancing afterwards, but we Germans were way nicer to them then the soviets, and that"s a fact.

Wanna see leveled city? Warsaw and Dresden is for you (and of course Tokyo and Hiroshima,...)

or cars could be engineered to stop killing more people than firearms. That's like saying a rape victim should just submit to it because the rapist is stronger

also, it's actually more dangerous to drive still. more likely than not, if you die while operating a motor vehicle it will be in a one person accident, like hitting a pole or driving off a cliff according to stats anyways.

I find myself a car guy, and my idea to make roads safer is to take cars AWAY from people. Car's where design to be a luxury items, and they should stay that way, why? Because people are to dumb to drive, 80% are selfish behind the wheel and drive not according to the situation but by they will to get from point A to B as fast as possible. And you might say, okey so how I am supposed to move around. Simple you can still use a car but it should be the least realible option (that way it will be used extensively like it should be in the first place) while buses, trams and bike lanes should be the fastest and the cheapest option. And Yt Chanels like: Not just Bikes or City beautiful, can tell you why. And the funny part about that is that the Soviets actually build cities in the way we all should now 50/60 years ago. Great job all of us :)

@@cutieb00tie as a car guy myself I agree, cars need to be deemphasized. There should be a resurgence in passenger rail in the US in my eyes. Too many tracks were pulled up in the 60s and 70s, and too many highways paved. As well as that, a shrinking of the majority of peoples' daily commutes should occur, so you don't have 20 minute or longer drives you have to make every day.

@@cutieb00tie Fuck you, I'm not getting up for work an hour earlier and arriving home another hour later.

Its the same S*** hole like it was before. I dont live there anymore but I sometimes go there to see my relatives and its still ugly, gross and poor city. I was born in Děčín though, Its not any better, maybe even worse.

You can relearn it..I came back from abroad..

@@filipkohout4704 That part of the country is incredibly ugly. I consider Ústí to be the ugliest city in Czechia, rivaled only by Most, Děčín and maybe Kralupy.

But they invented a special building relocation technique in order to save a church.

@@andro7862 yes, several churches and some block of flats, but still, the destruction was massive...

The city of Ploiesti had the same fate.Its beautiful old city center was razed to the ground to make room for the model socialist city.

This is already covered in Adam’s Dubai video to some extent

And it was completely justified. The old and decrepit needs to go to make way for the modern and efficient. Communist Romania was best Romania.

From the point of view of architecture, this is wrong. By doing this, you are deceiving a person, trying to present a new building in the form of a historical building. It is better to build up an empty place with a new and modern architecture of the same number of floors

@@danielgeller7629 That's an opinion, and nothing more. Why does it necessarily need to be "new" architecture and not that of an older style? Why the consistent bias among architects against anything but what's trendy (and often doesn't age well) in the now? I don't think people are being deceived into believing a new building built in an older style is "historic" in the same way, though plenty view it as recovering a semblance of something that was lost.

@@Littlegoatpaws cause u r stupid. this is not an opinion, but an architectural fact. After World War 2, it was forbidden to build in classical styles. All architects who are suspected of creating projects in classical styles will never be hired to work in large companies. Have you noticed that after the war, empty places were built up with concrete shit in the cities? So this is precisely because of the convention. Don't write if you don't know. And so, your comment is a fart

@@danielgeller7629 Your communication skills are sorely lacking.

@@Littlegoatpaws I absolutely have to agree with you, what he voiced is nothing more than his own taste, and a quite revolting one at that.

chechia is great, when i went to prague for vacation i felt a strong connection to the country and its people. you guys even seem to have a government that does not hate you, in contrast to the one here in germany. there needs to be more transnational friendship between our peoples, and old grievances need to be burried.

@@fritzkuhne2055 you wouldnt live in czechia over germany

@@anon2916 why

Since there doesn't even seem to be an English wikipedia article on this topic: Entstuckung (literally de-stucco-ing) was a bizarre phenomenon in German architecture that really took off after WW2, where depressed architects would ruin buildings by destroying the stucco of the historical fassades and instead plastering them flat. They mostly did this because they were morons, and to overcompensate their shame over WW2 and their resulting hate of everything romantic and old. Many thousands(!) of buildings were mutilated like this, across the whole country. They end up looking similar to soviet-style dwellings, even though they're actually mostly Gründerzeit. For example, the district of Kreuzberg in Berlin suffered greatly from this. There alone, over 1400 buildings were entstuckt until the 80s. And that is West Berlin, i.e. no communists involved.

Brutalism The i want to be different for the rest

@@LOLERXP Nonsense, the entstuckung began a long time before WW2 or even Nazis existed. It was advocated by people who thought the stucco was dishonest in making cheap shitty buildings look like they were made of expensive materials.

@@kyle8952 Right. Before architects that were depressed by WW2 came along and did entstuckung on an enormous scale, the concept was invented and began being practiced by other architecs who were depressed by poverty and overpopulation. These geniuses thought that beautiful buildings are dishonest if there are questionable living conditions inside. So they began making the buildings of poor people ugly. Very smart. But: My comment says _it took off_ after WW2, which is a fact... Today, the people who live in those apartments aren't poor anymore, either. Neither are they inhabited as densely. They do, however, remain ugly. I'd say Entstuckung was an early and particularly ridiculous example of intellectual virtue signaling that totally misses the point.

@@LOLERXP It started a couple decades before ww2. Those old facades felt tasteless and overcrowded for some people. They were tired of same old thing and wanted something new and modern (it is no longer 19th century, it is now 20th century). Nowadays we are similar, we want glass towers, and concrete ones feel so 20th century.