What happens if you totally transform a town? This suburb was dominated by modernist urbanism and was transformed by introducing traditional, mixed use urba...

A great example of a walkable city in France near Paris.

The town is really beautiful.

  • indomara@lemmy.worldEnglish
    91·
    1 year ago

    What a beautiful video, I hope more cities around the world will begin these sorts of changes. There is a reason these are the sorts of places many fall in love with on a holiday.

  • McLarny@feddit.deEnglish
    5·
    1 year ago

    The concept of a walkable city is something every urban planning should involve these days. I really appreciate that they did in this case. And also the affordability for tenants is a good measure for a healthy neighborhood. But the whole video doesn’t go into detail about anything. It seems quiet superficial and I wouldn’t agree with the whole architectural style that is promoted in the video. The video makes it seem like this is the only way to make buildings look beautiful. I find it rather fake-looking, like some facade in a theater. I wouldn’t wish for every city project to imitate this old style in every building so that they all look the same. The problem with post-war architecture is not particularly the brutalistic or minimalistic style but the monotony that it created. Monotony, as an environment to live in, is very inhumane and creates psychological distress. We should encourage a more modern approach that allows more variety in buildings, but always keep the human in mind for the design.

        • inasaba@lemmy.mlEnglish
          81·
          1 year ago

          Also explains that the social housing residents were offered to purchase their units at below-market rates and 80% of them took the offer, and that social housing was built as part of the project despite some buildings having been taken down. This is not your average “gentrification,” which is when poor people are pushed out of a place either through literal eviction so that their homes can be redeveloped into luxury units, or via price increases they can’t bear due to property value increases.

          Making a place nicer for people to live can be gentrifying, and often is, but in this case it looks like measures were taken to ensure that it didn’t happen.

  • elouboub@kbin.social
    11·
    1 year ago

    It looks nice, but like old France. It’s missing clearly indicated bike lanes and still looks like summers there will be unbearably hot. The author is correct though: making poor people live in ugly places in unethical and inhumane.