• kryptonianCodeMonkey@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    They had dozens of towers up until the invention of photography. And now they’re almost all gone. That’s even more impressive in a sadder way.

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      11 months ago

      The 1800s saw a LOT of buildings torn down and/or repurposed due to industrialization. Whether it was the factories themselves or the housing for the workers.

      And… the first half of the 1900s saw a LOT of Europe need to rebuild for multiple reasons.

      Its easy to fixate on something pretty. But understanding the overall scheme, and how it is related to the current (increasingly global) housing crisis is the point of learning from history.

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      i guess it’s sad, but by the time photography came around, they had been silly and useless already for hundreds of years… nobody needed them for anything, and they were always at risk of just toppling over… the rich families spent years and years building useless vanity projects that would eventually just crumble on top of the heads of people living down on the street…