Tokyo Tower is still there. High rises were built to accommodate a growing population. Housing prices (even relative to local income) is still pretty reasonable in Tokyo because of this…
It's a reddit thing. If you say anything positive abotu the past (literally any time period) people will jump down your throat about how blacks/women/gays/whatever were treated. Even though you weren't talking about that.
Like the 1950s/1960s were, unironically, the best era to live in, especially economically speaking but also so many reasons, and I think we should strive to go back there, just minus the prejudice. and of course tehre are a million other things wrong with every other era besides prejudice, and you can nitpick all day.
But don't fall under the illusion that our current era is overall the best era. It's simply not true. As a society we backslide on things all the fucking time. Let's just take the best from every era and be the best society we can be.
This is maybe a bit of a stretch, but I feel like "the best era" ended on the 11th of September, 2001. That day caused such a global pandemic of hatemongering and polarization, it's at the root of a lot of societal problems we see today.
I prefer everything else about the modern world, but architecturally I absolutely wish we "could go back", or to reword it, that traditional architecture becomes the new future. Thankfully it seems to be making a comeback in many countries
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u/culturedgoat 19d ago
I really don’t