[rb808]

Its still amazing to me how bad modern construction is. Paris was build with no electricity, no cars/trucks, no computers, no massive cranes and they can build a city that is more beautiful than any modern city. Even in the US pre-war apartment buildings are more solid, higher ceilings and more ornate than anything built in the last 50 years.

[kmlx]

“a city that is more beautiful than any modern city” to each his own. i would rather live in a modern flat in La Defanse than in the centre of Paris. i feel those long and wide boulevards are not really meant for humans, and those old buildings have horrible flats. give me some narrow and winding London roads any time of day. preferably full of modern skyscrapers.