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->This is worse than my old neighborhood, too. This is more like Harry's neighborhood. Harry's neighborhood was this bad - especially at night. They would climb the walls there. Yeah, his dad fired a shotgun at the ceiling, and he only scared ''some'' of them off...
-->--'''[[Videogame/HalfLife2 Gordon Freeman]] again''', ''WebVideo/FreemansMind 2''
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->The post-war fascination with technocracy and the sudden availability of lots of modernist architects who had fled the Nazis meant that everybody wanted to do big urban renewal projects with grand designs and visions. Hence the rise of brutalism... The standard example is [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pruitt%E2%80%93Igoe Pruitt-Igoe]], a shoddily constructed block of housing that quickly degenerated into a crime-ridden nightmare and was demolished less than twenty years after its construction. The two extremes of this form a clear snapshot of this sort of modernism. On the one hand, Pruitt-Igoe was an unmitigated disaster of a construction. On the other, it was built by respected architects and was an acclaimed piece of architecture. The contrast led to the ironically derogatory phrase 'award-winning design' to refer to something beloved by architectural critics and thus, by implication, almost certainly a piece of crap in practice.
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->The post-war fascination with technocracy and the sudden availability of lots of modernist architects who had fled the Nazis meant that everybody wanted to do big urban renewal projects with grand designs and visions. Hence the rise of brutalism... The standard example is [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pruitt%E2%80%93Igoe org/wiki/Pruit_Igoe Pruitt-Igoe]], a shoddily constructed block of housing that quickly degenerated into a crime-ridden nightmare and was demolished less than twenty years after its construction. The two extremes of this form a clear snapshot of this sort of modernism. On the one hand, Pruitt-Igoe was an unmitigated disaster of a construction. On the other, it was built by respected architects and was an acclaimed piece of architecture. The contrast led to the ironically derogatory phrase 'award-winning design' to refer to something beloved by architectural critics and thus, by implication, almost certainly a piece of crap in practice.
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-->--'''[[Videogame/HalfLife2 Gordon Freeman]]''', ''Machinima/FreemansMind 2''
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->The post-war fascination with technocracy and the sudden availability of lots of modernist architects who had fled the Nazis meant that everybody wanted to do big urban renewal projects with grand designs and visions. Hence the rise of brutalism... The standard example is [[https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=William_Igoe_Apartments&redirect=no Pruitt-Igoe]], a shoddily constructed block of housing that quickly degenerated into a crime-ridden nightmare and was demolished less than twenty years after its construction. The two extremes of this form a clear snapshot of this sort of modernism. On the one hand, Pruitt-Igoe was an unmitigated disaster of a construction. On the other, it was built by respected architects and was an acclaimed piece of architecture. The contrast led to the ironically derogatory phrase 'award-winning design' to refer to something beloved by architectural critics and thus, by implication, almost certainly a piece of crap in practice.
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->The post-war fascination with technocracy and the sudden availability of lots of modernist architects who had fled the Nazis meant that everybody wanted to do big urban renewal projects with grand designs and visions. Hence the rise of brutalism... The standard example is [[https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=William_Igoe_Apartments&redirect=no org/wiki/Pruitt%E2%80%93Igoe Pruitt-Igoe]], a shoddily constructed block of housing that quickly degenerated into a crime-ridden nightmare and was demolished less than twenty years after its construction. The two extremes of this form a clear snapshot of this sort of modernism. On the one hand, Pruitt-Igoe was an unmitigated disaster of a construction. On the other, it was built by respected architects and was an acclaimed piece of architecture. The contrast led to the ironically derogatory phrase 'award-winning design' to refer to something beloved by architectural critics and thus, by implication, almost certainly a piece of crap in practice.
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->The post-war fascination with technocracy and the sudden availability of lots of modernist architects who had fled the Nazis meant that everybody wanted to do big urban renewal projects with grand designs and visions. Hence the rise of brutalism... The standard example is [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pruitt–Igoe Pruitt-Igoe]], a shoddily constructed block of housing that quickly degenerated into a crime-ridden nightmare and was demolished less than twenty years after its construction. The two extremes of this form a clear snapshot of this sort of modernism. On the one hand, Pruitt-Igoe was an unmitigated disaster of a construction. On the other, it was built by respected architects and was an acclaimed piece of architecture. The contrast led to the ironically derogatory phrase 'award-winning design' to refer to something beloved by architectural critics and thus, by implication, almost certainly a piece of crap in practice.
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->The post-war fascination with technocracy and the sudden availability of lots of modernist architects who had fled the Nazis meant that everybody wanted to do big urban renewal projects with grand designs and visions. Hence the rise of brutalism... The standard example is [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pruitt–Igoe org/w/index.php?title=William_Igoe_Apartments&redirect=no Pruitt-Igoe]], a shoddily constructed block of housing that quickly degenerated into a crime-ridden nightmare and was demolished less than twenty years after its construction. The two extremes of this form a clear snapshot of this sort of modernism. On the one hand, Pruitt-Igoe was an unmitigated disaster of a construction. On the other, it was built by respected architects and was an acclaimed piece of architecture. The contrast led to the ironically derogatory phrase 'award-winning design' to refer to something beloved by architectural critics and thus, by implication, almost certainly a piece of crap in practice.
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->The post-war fascination with technocracy and the sudden availability of lots of modernist architects who had fled the Nazis meant that everybody wanted to do big urban renewal projects with grand designs and visions. Hence the rise of brutalism... The standard example is [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pruitt%E2%80%93Igoe Pruitt-Igoe]], a shoddily constructed block of housing that quickly degenerated into a crime-ridden nightmare and was demolished less than twenty years after its construction. The two extremes of this form a clear snapshot of this sort of modernism. On the one hand, Pruitt-Igoe was an unmitigated disaster of a construction. On the other, it was built by respected architects and was an acclaimed piece of architecture. The contrast led to the ironically derogatory phrase 'award-winning design' to refer to something beloved by architectural critics and thus, by implication, almost certainly a piece of crap in practice.
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->The post-war fascination with technocracy and the sudden availability of lots of modernist architects who had fled the Nazis meant that everybody wanted to do big urban renewal projects with grand designs and visions. Hence the rise of brutalism... The standard example is [[http://en.[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pruitt%E2%80%93Igoe org/wiki/Pruitt–Igoe Pruitt-Igoe]], a shoddily constructed block of housing that quickly degenerated into a crime-ridden nightmare and was demolished less than twenty years after its construction. The two extremes of this form a clear snapshot of this sort of modernism. On the one hand, Pruitt-Igoe was an unmitigated disaster of a construction. On the other, it was built by respected architects and was an acclaimed piece of architecture. The contrast led to the ironically derogatory phrase 'award-winning design' to refer to something beloved by architectural critics and thus, by implication, almost certainly a piece of crap in practice.
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->They left the busy scene, and went into an obscure part of the town, where Scrooge had never penetrated before, although he recognised its situation, and its bad repute. The ways were foul and narrow; the shops and houses wretched; the people half-naked, drunken, slipshod, ugly. Alleys and archways, like so many cesspools, disgorged their offences of smell, and dirt, and life, upon the straggling streets; and the whole quarter reeked with crime, with filth, and misery.
-->--''Literature/AChristmasCarol''
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->The empty integuments of grand buildings began to fill. Rural poor from Grain Spiral and the Mendican Foothills began to creep into the deserted borough. The word spread that this was a ghost sector, beyond Parliament's ken, where taxes and law were as rare as sewage systems. Rough frameworks of stolen wood filled the empty floors. In the outlines of stillborn streets, shacks of concrete and corrugated iron blistered overnight. Inhabitation spread like mould. There were no gaslamps to take the edge off the night, no doctors, no jobs, yet within ten years the area was dense with [[HorribleHousing ersatz housing]]. It had acquired a name, [[MeaningfulName Splatters]], that reflected the desultory randomness of its outlines: the whole stinking shanty-town seemed to have dribbled like shit from the sky.
-->--''Literature/PerdidoStreetStation''
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->Every city has at least one area where all the rules have broken down, where humanity comes and goes, and civilisation is a sometime thing. Blaiston Street is the kind of area where no-one has ever paid any rent, where even the little comforts of life go only to the strongest, and plague rats go around in pairs because they're frightened. It's mob rule, on the few occasions when the brutal inhabitants can get their act together long enough to form a mob. [[DarkIsEvil They live in the dark because they like it that way]]. Because that way they can't see how far they've fallen.
-->--''[[Literature/{{Nightside}} Something From The Nightside]]''
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->Where the Universität is the pride of the Neuestadt, the Shantytown is its shame. A collection of shabby houses, filthy streets, and profane odours, the Shantytown is the haven of thief and murderer, men and women of low morals ([[InsaneTrollLogic if they had them, they’d own property]]), and the diseased and malformed. Most decent Nulners avoid this part of town, seeing the people there as nothing more than rabble. And though it was the Shantytowners who came to the city’s defence when the Skaven boiled up from beneath the city, [[UngratefulBastard Nulners have a short memory when it suits them.]]
-->--''TabletopGame/WarhammerFantasyRoleplay: Paths Of The Damned - Forges Of Nuln''
