Yeah, a bunch of YT channels in the urbanist space are anti-communist and pro-market to a really bad degree. Canadian channel I watched a couple weeks ago was both-sidesing the housing crisis by saying "the left" needs to be more open to market solutions (even though public-private partnerships are literally part of the reason nothing gets built here and one of the guests in the video basically said as much). Stupid to think there's even been a "left" substantially in power enough here to affect housing like that.

The channel was Oh, The Urbanity or whatever. Already wiping them from my memory.

[–] AstroStelar@hexbear.net 7 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

Yeah, "Oh, the Urbanity!" Ugh...

To those patterns I'll add sentiments along "we don't make buildings like we used to" and a "small is beautiful" mentality that often leads to an outright hatred towards modernist architecture that feels completely disconnected from material circumstances.

[–] Enjoyer_of_Games@hexbear.net 3 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I can't watch oh the urbanity just because for some reason their voices sound like 2010's era voice generators to me.

[–] AstroStelar@hexbear.net 1 points 4 days ago

lol