Alternate History Architecture

[decola 0]

Hello, i was looking through various websies and i found a few about Rome. Well, to cut the story short there is a part of Rome called the EUR district, that survived from the fascist era and looks very urbanised. It shows how urban Italy would have become if the Fascist regime survived. So i set up this thread to see if anyone new of any other new city districts that were constructed in a style that could have changed how a city or country looks like now.

Heres a pic;

[louisville327 0]

I think any kind of Utopian-minded project would qualify in this case, since most of them seem to be on the way out. I'm thinking along the lines of construction based on Garden City, City Beautiful and Radiant City ideologies...

See also: Soviet construction in Eastern Europe and American low-income housing projects.

[Joesocwork 4]

Date: 9/20/2005 9:01:05 AM Author:decola It shows how urban Italy would have become if the Fascist regime survived... 

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Pretty neat. Do you have a picture of how it actually is for comparison?

[leonel1982 7]

I suggest the Great Hall that Albert Speer built in the book Fatherland, which is an alternate history of what if Germany had survived the war and conquored all of Europe and Russia. The Great Hall makes the Brandenburg gate look like a footstool.

[Yellowlab 11]

Spain is a lot like that too.  Seeing as how they were under a fascist government until 1975, much of the newer parts of Madrid, Barcelona, Sevilla, and the large cities reflect a modernist, urbanist design that I abhor.  It is interesting though because it's living history.

[Motina 77]

Decola

I thought the Italian peninsula was urbanized for over two thousands years? So how were the fascists being any different when they took the standard classicism with a striped down modernist twist.

 

[louisville327 0]

Instead of alternate history architecture and urban design, why not alternate future?

Some of our past visions of the future are fascinating, considering very little of it ever came true. I'm still bitter about not getting a flying car in the year 2000.

[brancra 1,180]

Is it just me, or does most of the architecture of the future seem to be absolutely hideous in design? I never cared for those cities of the future designs, they, the designers always go overboard and assume we want to live in giant space capsules. I'd rather have my right arm cut off than live in one of those outrageous structures.