01-04-2024, 04:02 PM
NAC is awful in so many regards. I wrote a long essay in an Austrian architecture publication about this detailing the issues,from the slavery involved to just being shit planning to the classism it promotes. I'd share it but it's written in German, but you can find lots of criticism of this project to read.
The issue with cities like these is that they often fail to work. Not always - there are great examples of planned cities like Kyoto or Brasília - but there are so many examples of failed ones. Or they seem okay on the surface...you see people, buildings, infrastructure etc...but once you get into the nitty gritty of these places, they're awful.
We don't need an authoritarian government to achieve similar things here. We just need to have good leadership, a population of people who want to feel prideful of their nation (which is hard to achieve...we love to work against our own best interest here) and some degree of willpower. I suspect those days are long gone, sadly. In the past we had nation building projects and things that brought us together - major projects like railway building, nuclear power, space exploration, ship building - but this is 2024 and everyone is selfish and sadly, our country is broken beyond repair thanks to useless left wing and right wing governments taking turns smashing everything.
The issue with cities like these is that they often fail to work. Not always - there are great examples of planned cities like Kyoto or Brasília - but there are so many examples of failed ones. Or they seem okay on the surface...you see people, buildings, infrastructure etc...but once you get into the nitty gritty of these places, they're awful.
We don't need an authoritarian government to achieve similar things here. We just need to have good leadership, a population of people who want to feel prideful of their nation (which is hard to achieve...we love to work against our own best interest here) and some degree of willpower. I suspect those days are long gone, sadly. In the past we had nation building projects and things that brought us together - major projects like railway building, nuclear power, space exploration, ship building - but this is 2024 and everyone is selfish and sadly, our country is broken beyond repair thanks to useless left wing and right wing governments taking turns smashing everything.