Didn’t even keep like the few buildings people really wanted to keep lol okay then.
stonerghostboner on
Oh, sure, when *they* do it…
TupperwareConspiracy on
Honestly I’m always a sucker for urban planning schemes over the course of history. Many have been tried and very few, even those generally well respected today, perform the actual function their designers originally intended.
A lot of conceptual ‘Utopia’ ism generally confined by a very impractical view of how the future would actually go down. Unfortunately quite a bit of quality spaces – factories and warehouses built between 1880 and 1920 – that would later prove perfect for redevelopment as loft housing & commercial spaces were demolished to make way for tomorrow-land type fantasy that never materialized.
Frank Lloyd Wright’s Broadacre City is particularity interesting – a very midwestern take on the approach [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broadacre_City](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broadacre_City) . In the end there’s something of a perverse charm in the American landscape and over time communities will adapt and evolve spaces in ways no architect can predict and a lot of the ‘charm’ of a certain spot, i.e. Austin or Denver, can only be achieved by letting the process take it’s natural course.
Even-Analysis8223 on
all the art deco buildings 🙁
NotObviouslyARobot on
And that’s why we call it Oklahoma Shitty.
Nothing but subdivisions as far as the eye can see
next-station-nana on
Urban renewal projects really proved to be a bigger blight on our cities than the issues they claimed to be solving.
fdwyersd on
ok this explains a lot for me… when I was in OKC, it was noticeable that the downtown just kind of “stops” at the edges…. there’s the devon tower which is cool, and some surrounding smaller buildings, but then it’s just flat land
JohnCocktoaston on
America is a stupid place.
superchiva78 on
To make space for cars.
Present-Spring-1340 on
On purpose it’s ok*
the_amazing_skronus on
Destruction of Wall street 2 Racist Boogaloo
Global_Criticism3178 on
History will not be kind to I.M. Pei. He is to Architecture what Chris Bangle is to automotive design.
viktor72 on
Did they also demolish that building on the left?
mediapunk on
Oklahoma seems to have a thing for annihilating all the interesting parts of itself in order to adhere to whatever white people fantasy seems to be on brand at whatever given point in time
Djdoubleu on
Wasn’t there another guy who tried it again later?
GeekBoyWonder on
Meanwhile… Tulsa
mikki1time on
Still hasn’t recovered
Basic-Collection5416 on
Oh, I wondered why the downtown was so sad and ugly when I drove through there. Today I learned.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pei_Plan
Why?
Didn’t even keep like the few buildings people really wanted to keep lol okay then.
Oh, sure, when *they* do it…
Honestly I’m always a sucker for urban planning schemes over the course of history. Many have been tried and very few, even those generally well respected today, perform the actual function their designers originally intended.
A lot of conceptual ‘Utopia’ ism generally confined by a very impractical view of how the future would actually go down. Unfortunately quite a bit of quality spaces – factories and warehouses built between 1880 and 1920 – that would later prove perfect for redevelopment as loft housing & commercial spaces were demolished to make way for tomorrow-land type fantasy that never materialized.
Frank Lloyd Wright’s Broadacre City is particularity interesting – a very midwestern take on the approach [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broadacre_City](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broadacre_City) . In the end there’s something of a perverse charm in the American landscape and over time communities will adapt and evolve spaces in ways no architect can predict and a lot of the ‘charm’ of a certain spot, i.e. Austin or Denver, can only be achieved by letting the process take it’s natural course.
all the art deco buildings 🙁
And that’s why we call it Oklahoma Shitty.
Nothing but subdivisions as far as the eye can see
Urban renewal projects really proved to be a bigger blight on our cities than the issues they claimed to be solving.
ok this explains a lot for me… when I was in OKC, it was noticeable that the downtown just kind of “stops” at the edges…. there’s the devon tower which is cool, and some surrounding smaller buildings, but then it’s just flat land
America is a stupid place.
To make space for cars.
On purpose it’s ok*
Destruction of Wall street 2 Racist Boogaloo
History will not be kind to I.M. Pei. He is to Architecture what Chris Bangle is to automotive design.
Did they also demolish that building on the left?
Oklahoma seems to have a thing for annihilating all the interesting parts of itself in order to adhere to whatever white people fantasy seems to be on brand at whatever given point in time
Wasn’t there another guy who tried it again later?
Meanwhile… Tulsa
Still hasn’t recovered
Oh, I wondered why the downtown was so sad and ugly when I drove through there. Today I learned.
Great job way to preserve your history
Very clever.