Thread 519084222

Fuck the USA and this bullshit today. Let's escape into fantasy.
Thread for visions of the romanticized ideal of Americana.
I'm starting out with some visions of 20th century romanesque revival the "Metropolis" look rather than the neoromanesque look.

Eras you can draw from:
1910 urban
1925-35 mechanical/industrial/motor
1950s cars
1955-65 mid century houses or furniture
1960 "retro" futurism
1975-85 marquee lightbulb, mirror, geometric structural frames

Neoclassical can only be used if in conjunction with Americana.
1830s Erie canal brick vibe is okay if with more modern
Georgian colonial brick is okay if monumental and surrounded by more modern.

>>519084222 (OP)
I'm so mad we didn't keep this aesthetic

>>519084367
Lots of small American cities have little streets with a few buildings in this style, and there are also lots of sad tales of giant downtowns full of this style and they were like torn down.

>>519084367
I mean, that’s just Chicago but whatever

>>519084500
Chicago is cool, and the AI is clearly using Chicago river imagery for training data, but Chicago lakes charm and character for some reason. None of the awesome buildings have any kind of cultural or historical gravitas. They just look cool.

>>519084735
That’s not true. I mean, compared to castles or Angor Kwat, I guess they’re not old enough for that. But even the Chicago Board of Trade building has the faceless statue of Ceres, the Roman god of Agriculture on top holds a bag of corn and a sheaf of wheat, symbolizing the grain and commodities traded in the building below. If there’s any city in America whose architecture has cultural, historical, and anthropological significance it would definitely be Chicago

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>>519085374
Chicago has excellent architecture and is the best model for like a DC universe "Metropolis". It just has garbage atmosphere as a city. It's very hard to wrap your finger around why. It's pretty satanic there, maybe.
The rivers nice but the city doesn't really use it in any way. The L train is just a dumb circle. The urban planning is just bad, they just sort of have the park by Lake Michigan.
There's no like flow or decent character. It's no wonder the city is just a bunch of working stiffs.

You start getting character out toward the Northern Suburbs with the pizza rolls and sausages and whatever. Wrigley field and the two flats, but it's a pretty grim character like Queens.

>>519085812
Outside of San Fran American cities severely lack in hills. A kind of multi elevation Roman style American city where the roofs and back alleys of short brick apartment buildings rise to the eye level of tall skyscrapers, but multiple pockets of elevation into the distance would be cool.

I guess Portland is a bit hilly and kind of has kick ass architecture but unfortunately it's Portland.
Oregon has some kick as highway bridges from the 1930s. Batman level shit.

>>519085701
>the urban planning is bad
Are you retarded?

>>519086033
American fantasia never fails.

>>519086074
The fact you're not getting this kind of proves the point.

>>519084500
Not enough greenery.

>>519084735
Weird. A lot of these just look like actual american cities. That looks like Columbus, Ohio.

America went all in on the car industry and lost its great cities. Maybe one day we’ll get them back. The suburbs are trash and small towns are insanely boring.

>>519086444
Yeah it's hard to make it work with the no pay AI. The OP image was my one free "pro" mode image and obviously looks the best.
The AI is just drawing from IRL training data, but I'm trying to include monumental, fantasy and eclectic stuff.

I'm going to try to get it to do transport systems next, and then double back and try to combine eclectic Americana, like greasy 1920 and Victorian.

>>519084222 (OP)
>Not a single American/Nazi architecture buildings in this thread.
Come on anons we need the hybrid.

>>519087102
Nazi architecture isn't romantic.

Metropolis predicted freeways and computerized stock market tickers. The only upside was the Art Deco and mole people with apartments instead of tent city.

>>519084500
I'm saying every city should have this aesthetic

Chicago Factory Planet :(

>>519088305
Tried mixing advanced mid-century with the brick rowhouse roof party vibe.
I know a lot of universities are mixing the georgian and neo-modern.

>>519085701
i've never been, but it seems the massive highway on the coastline is a massive loss for the city since it blocks the use of that area for development on the water.

boston did the big dig (putting the highway cutting through their city underground) and after that the north end (previously cut off by the highway) saw a massive boost

>>519088521
what is your favorite city for row houses?

>>519084500
Only been once, it really is impressive. But it's also FLOOODED with joggers, and because of how built up the downtown is, there's tons of desolate areas at night, which makes the place 10x as sketchy.
Philly has similar demographics, but isn't nearly as sketchy because only small sections of it really get desolate at night. Everywhere you'd want to be has lots of people out and about.

>>519088597
I think New York is obviously the best. San fran is overrated. Mid-atlantic small cities including DC and Baltimore are exactly the same.

I prefer the rowhouses to be part of a well zone block. DC has this a bit with lots of boutique restaurants in them. Outside of busy downtown blocks, a US city should immediately transition to standalone duplexes or Victorian houses. Then modernize the houses the further from downtown and after about 10 blocks you can build a busier road and alternate parks and commercial zoning on it.

One of the coolest cities I've lived is Eugene Oregon. Quiet semi-urban tree lined old house blocks where a Victorian mansion with a porch is converted into a cafe, and then two blocks later a ton of useful urban commercial like FedEx-Kinko's, my gold dealer, the glass cutter. Then you mix in restaurants, weird shit like the barcade. Then it's 2-3 blocks of pure urban with taller apartment buildings, pedestrian streets, actual concert halls and comedy clubs.

Eugene's people range from somewhat kickass to dogshit trooned out insane pothead liberals. The city also tapers off like the downtown to "suburban stroad" takes about 15 blocks and then it's a useful stroad with actual stores and shit you need like goodwill, Uhaul rental, strip club.
Every kind of thing you need a store for exists, like a used piano guy or scuba gear store. But just one.
Pretty walkable especially with the scale of downtown.

Kick ass coast, lake, temperate rainforest fern place, kickass mountains, forest fire burn zones, volcanoes, then crest the mountain and it's suddenly dry Western pine country then almost immediately dry plains/desert at Bend Oregon, might as well be mid to Southern Colorado. Fucking wild place. Too bad the people suck.

why dont you use real images instead of illustrations? this thread is ass you clown

>>519084222 (OP)
An American Roamnce Story:
>Once upon a time there was a poor man.
>He was so poor he only had $1.
>He used that $1 to buy some widgets and a cake.
>A cake, you ask? Well, it was the cheapest food that came in a box, which he needed to make his sign.
>"Widgets .25c each!" it said. He set the sign up next to his hovel
>Soon people began coming to buy his widgets.
>His hovel turned into a house.
>His sign turned into a billboard.
>He was no longer poor, but he wanted to be rich!
>Soon the man started to manufacture his own widgets.
>He began to sell widgets not only to his customers, but to other people like he used to be when he sold widgets.
>This catapulted the man to wealth unimaginable prior to purchasing that single widget and the cake in the box.
>It was an angelfood cake, BTW.
>The End.

>>519085701
This was written by some dumbfuck tourist who dwaddled around the loop for a day lol. You saw a bare fraction of the city, and not even the parts people live in.

>>519089698
Everyone who lives in Chicago is an overpaid workaholic asshole that does cocaine or is gay. The architecture is cool but there's no actual soul holding the city together.
New York creates the shitty normie culture, L.A. sells it to the masses, and Chicago just kind of receives it cheeks spread and a little late.

>>519089464
Because it's fantasia dumbass.
I'm going to do iconography next.

>>519089277
dc has some pretty nice dense areas. mixed feelings abt the federal buildings

new york is of course the best and im from brooklyn so i'll say brooklyn

I've never thought of eugene before. I really like Boston like charlestown, back bay, beacon hill. federal hill in baltimore is very nice. center city in philly is nice too. philly has a lot of potential. just a lot of grime too unfortunately.

>>519090514
I forgot about Savannah, GA

>>519090650
charleston, sc too

>>519090650
i went to savannah and it's very nice especially in the victorian district of course. hopefully it does a charleston transformtion. the white population is already increasing while the black population has begun to decrease. savannah could definitely be rough around the edges due to this demographic (50% black) and the ghetto seeps in to the main city, but this can be fixed hopefully.

You will never be able to create art, draw, or creatively express an idea outside of eating your own shit. As an expression of your own intelligence.

>>519090514
There's this bridge and park vibe that you get with elevation in older American cities. New York has it a lot. DC has it over Rock Creek Park. I wish it could be implemented better so each end of the bridge was as epic as say as in Prague.
There's a heavy Gotham vibe in the winter, but it's beautiful in the summer.

>>519090798
Yeah it's nuts very expensive houses but like if the wind blows the wrong direction crime will just waft anywhere in the city. Projects just blocks from the core downtown.

>>519084222 (OP)
You can live in your tiny little fantasy, white boi.
But reality will hit you so hard that you will get shocked.

>>519090865
Sorry I wasn't raped as a kid so I don't know how you feel.

>>519084367
It needs more blacks, browns, and drugs

>>519090968
What race are you?

>>519089930
lmao. Dumbass, you thought lakeview was a suburb instead of being in the middle of the north side. The city is made for the people who live in it, not retard tourists who can't even find their way out of the business district.

>>519086275
If I had to live in a building with a gigantic waterfall going GWWWAAARRRSSHH 24/7 I'd the kill the Zanarkand fucker that built it and then myself.

>>519090968
You're terrified of the trains, we get it.

>>519091096
Chicago suburbs are endless traffic past shitty starbucks and the occasional sandwich shop. Polish church, Irish church, Italian church. Sprawl sprawl sprawl. A shitty part. Traffic traffic traffic.
Good god live anywhere else and you'll never be able to go back.
>t. lived in Evanston

>>519090937
yamacraw village needs to be tore done and redone. we'll build new nicer projects for the blacks in the middle of nowhere

>>519090892
don't forget boston with boston commons and public garden. i really like thosearches btw. reminds me of the bridge crossing the susquehanna

>>519091244
favorite airport?

>>519091224
fuck fecaloid jeets and fuck you

>>519091362
>>519091362
This is from IT pennywise

>>519091032
master one. and you germanoid scums will fuck off to your muddy huts soon. redistribution of power is here. act tough and get the cold steel. this ain't 1910.

>>519091244
Nice you gave me an idea.
This sort of mid-century vibe but with the 1940s train station when they weren't all full of homeless junkies.
Well, I got a 1950s modern air terminal, but it's pretty nice anyway.

>>519091525
i love the airport aesthetique

>>519091367
Boston has lots of nice stuff but the city hall is a disaster.
The Taft bridge is cool to ride over too. The lamps are very stylized, but the simplicity of the arches is pretty epic. It's that exaggerated neoromanesque (which someone tried to ruin in the 90s with the big gemetric shapes on fire stations)

>>519091500
So I'm sorry are your French?

>>519091728
>city hall is a disaster
Very much indeed

also they still don't have direct rail link to airport. Should've been the silver line but nope... a bit embarassing...

>>519091525
Gothic-Cajun Miami

>>519091998
i dont see any cajun in there. but a cajun miami is something i never thought of before lol

>>519092058
Oakland is another tragic tale.

>>519092222
cincinatti at least is doing better with it's over the rhine german brick neighborhood. i hope to see cincinatti really get to the point where it needs to be at since it's really a very beautiful city

>>519092429
It has a weird underwhelming full city downtown, but the intimate and walkable brick downtown or whatever it is is pretty cool.

For me New York rooftop game is max kino but surprisingly it's hard to find good spots. I want to feel extremely high up but still surrounded by massive brick and stone cathedrals.

>>519092604
personally my favorite part of new york is the financial district although there are some shabby streets not too far from wall street

It’s disgusting that whites have pulled the plug on civilization. We could all be so much greater and instead we babysit. Instead we have feminists, decay, crime, trash, corruption, etc etc and decaying birth rates to top it off. All of this wasn’t fantasy just over 100 years ago. It was a reality in nearly every western city. We can all do better as humans.

>>519094440
whites pulled the pull first on themselves
the average white american is like 50+ now

>>519094440
whites pulled the plug first on themselves
the average white american is like 50+ now

>>519094440
It's that thing of "oh what harm is it to live a little, drink, fool around, experiment."
So, well, you see...

>>519090798
Most ghetto areas of America will be fixed with time. The black population is only decreasing and also seems to be getting gentrified and priced out of bigger cities more and more these days.

Come to think of it, didn't Trump say he wanted to beautify america again or something? That nigger hasn't done a thing to bring back our iconic beauty.