Inhabited Beauty

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For photos of beautiful, still-inhabited locales! It can be a quick snapshot of your local town, a breathtaking pro photo of a city, or a pic of some fascinating piece of modern life.

The only real rule is that it must be an actively inhabited/used location (ie not ruins or natural locales). Otherwise, go wild. Anything that you find beautiful or interesting!

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Begich Towers in Whittier, Alaska, USA, holding most of the town's population (lemmy.world)

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 months ago

I'm sure there were buildings with nice artwork on them. Ironically, communist countries had a well defined ruling class who could get nice things. It's the average that counts. Also, slapping a small artwork on an otherwise ugly building is not really a solution.

My experience is mostly Romania, Hungary and ex-Yugoslavia. Those in Romania and Hungary are awful undecorated gray boxes, with substandard installations, paper-thin walls, and very depressing places to be in.
Yugoslavia is a different story, visibly not a part of the Soviet bloc. While there are some bad buildings, on average both quality and aesthetics, are much much better. Fairly nice places to live in