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High rises like those can be found in pretty much any city in North America now. I live in one that is 60 years old. We don't call it a commie tower though, it's just called a high rise. I've never heard the term commie applied to high rise apartment buildings before this. Where did you get the name "commie" from? What is it supposed to be short for?
A lot of the UK post War concrete towers (commie blocks) have been demolished, however there are newer apartment blocks in major cities, just as they are in other cities across Europe and across the world.
I looked at some of the images from the opening post - none of which could remotely be called Commie based on architecture so I don't really understand what the OP is referring to I doubt any of them apartment buildings listed are state owned or controlled.
A lot of the UK post War concrete towers (commie blocks) have been demolished, however there are newer apartment blocks in major cities, just as they are in other cities across Europe and across the world.
I lived in Colindale NW9 in the early 80s - the local estate was called the Graeme Park Estate, it was as ugly and as poorly planned as anything you might see in Soviet Russia, i hope it has been rebuilt.
I lived in Colindale NW9 in the early 80s - the local estate was called the Graeme Park Estate, it was as ugly and as poorly planned as anything you might see in Soviet Russia, i hope it has been rebuilt.
The Hendon/Colindale area has seen significant change, and most of the Old Met Police HQ is now apartments, whilst bast estates across London in areas stretching from the Elephant and Castle through to Woolwich and Greenwich and up to the East End have now met their end and the same is true in relation to other British cities.
Since 1997, more than 161 council estates in London have been demolished, with a further 122 now listed for demolition and redevelopment, and many of these estates include the old problematic ugly tower type block estates, with the emphasis now being on more attractive low rise housing and apartments, ad this has been replicated in terms of other UK cities.
A lot of the UK post War concrete towers (commie blocks) have been demolished, however there are newer apartment blocks in major cities, just as they are in other cities across Europe and across the world.
The Eastern Europe has lot more of this because the USSR history had massive and I mean massive poverty and poor and it was cheaper for elites to build this than houses and the USSR at time had the most high rise in world well now south east Asia is now catching up.
Where the US had a strong middle class before ww2 and jobs paid really well in post WW2 boom unlike the USSR, the USSR has massive housing shortage and massive poverty and poor and it was cheaper for the elites to build this than houses.
But commie towers in Western Europe or Canada was always sign of young people that don’t have money to buy house. So in way it was like USSR commie towers for poor and low income or new young folks just starting. I believe city planners and government copied a lot of this from USSR and build that in their country.
A lot of the UK post War concrete towers (commie blocks) have been demolished, however there are newer apartment blocks in major cities, just as they are in other cities across Europe and across the world.
One thing I notice is Israel, Gaza and the Middle East have lot of mid rise apartments and this never caught on in Canada and Europe for some reason. In some way city planners hate mid rise apartments and condos and push high rise.
I hear Canada mostly Toronto and Vancouver have more commie towers than the UK is that true? Does the UK have lot of commie towers?
Yeah they have commie blocks over there. I think that's where the replacements are housed. One of caught fire and a bunch of them died not too long ago, Grenfell fire.
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