Thread: Which country/geographic area/ culture are you from

Originally Posted by Wallaroo

Seems to me that all big cities in Germany are butt ugly. They should have been built up the way they were originally, just like they did with Vienna after it was bombed. Berlin is with out doubt the ugliest capital in Europe, its amazing there are so many tourists visiting it.

I've travelled extensively in Germany, and I cannot say that I agree with you on that. Berlin is a lovely city. Which part of Denmark are you from? I often go to Copenhagen since I live near Malmö.

Originally Posted by Iliak

I've travelled extensively in Germany, and I cannot say that I agree with you on that. Berlin is a lovely city. Which part of Denmark are you from? I often go to Copenhagen since I live near Malmö.

Berlin might be a clean and efficient city but there is almost no fine old buildings in it, thats why I find the place so boring and uninspiring.

Im from Århus and I sure as hell hate Copenhagen and the people living there, thats why I never goes to that God forsaken place, unless I have to.

Originally Posted by Wallaroo

Seems to me that all big cities in Germany are butt ugly. They should have been built up the way they were originally, just like they did with Vienna after it was bombed. Berlin is with out doubt the ugliest capital in Europe, its amazing there are so many tourists visiting it.

Cities like Berlin Dresden Stuttgart etc, were far more devestated after WWII than Vienna, although also in Vienna 1/5 of all structures were destroyed.

But of course, those radical "reconstruction"-plans that included to pull down the other half that was not destroyed in order to make the most modern new city that obeys totally the rule of the car were not realized in Vienna thankfully, but in many German cities. Somehow they just reflected about the problem of transportation, but compeletely forgot that people do not only want to get from A to B in a city, but also to live there.

As I said in Vienna that error was not made, the 50's buildings are ugly like in German cities, but they at least obey to a large grade the rule of the old traditional frame (size, street-path)

Originally Posted by Slartibartfas

Cities like Berlin Dresden Stuttgart etc, were far more devestated after WWII than Vienna, although also in Vienna 1/5 of all structures were destroyed.

But of course, those radical "reconstruction"-plans that included to pull down the other half that was not destroyed in order to make the most modern new city that obeys totally the rule of the car were not realized in Vienna thankfully, but in many German cities. Somehow they just reflected about the problem of transportation, but compeletely forgot that people do not only want to get from A to B in a city, but also to live there.

As I said in Vienna that error was not made, the 50's buildings are ugly like in German cities, but they at least obey to a large grade the rule of the old traditional frame (size, street-path)

When I visited Vienna I heard that it was 1/3 af the city that was bombed, bud you probably know that better. I assume they had most of the original architecture drawings on the old city buildings.

Nice Metro system by the way, the best I've seen so far. How much did it cost to build?

Originally Posted by Wallaroo

When I visited Vienna I heard that it was 1/3 af the city that was bombed, bud you probably know that better. I assume they had most of the original architecture drawings on old city buildings.

1/3 you say? Well, I would not want to bet on my 1/5. Its hard to estimate personally. There are large parts of the inner city that remained to large parts intact. But for example not a single of those pitoresque and marvellous railwaystations has survived the war. Also the industry was nearly completely erased.

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As far as I know were only the great symbols of Viennese architecture restored. eg The states opera that was very severely damaged or the Stephansdom. The regular houses were rebuilt mostly if not always in the well known 50s style. I mean you cant accuse them for that. A compeletely destroyed country which has even problems to organzie enough for its citizens is in the situation to rebuild a city in baroque (!) style.

Nice Metro system by the way, the best I've seen so far. How much did it cost to build?

I have honestly no idea how much it costed. And I dont know if anyone knows that. It rellies to a large part on the former Stadtbahnen (U4, U6) that have been adopted. But there are also completely new built lines like U3 and U1. Than we have a rather useless U2 that was a former premetro some sort of underground tram. The whole system is supported by a surrounding S-Bahn network.

But I like the U-Bahn too, its quite clean and nice to look at. Thats really something special when it comes to underground railways And also the many historical stations in Jugendstil (art nouveau) are a sight.

I live in Toronto, Canada. I was born and raised in a small town outside of Niagara Falls, Canada to parents who are french(my dad) and American(my mom). It's an interesting cultural mix that includes one part Irish, one part French, one part German, and then mix in the American/Canadian thing. I work as an actor, but mostly I save to travel since I've only been out of school a few years.