But let’s talk about today’s housing talk? Every time I show you how to build modern housing in the decadent West, you tell me, why can’t we build as well. Don’t just tell and confidently aggressive and fall asleep on me like an avalanche of all kinds of arguments. Most people with a religious devotion to protect his concrete chicken coops that multiply across the country, proving that it is the only right way. Despite the fact that in the 70-ies of the last century throughout the world, this design approach was found incorrect. Despite a lot of examples of how such areas have evolved into dysfunctional ghettos.
I say:
— See how you can live!
— Shut up! At us such it is impossible, — you answer.
— It is impossible? Why? — I ask.
— We have winter 12 months a year!
— So what? This does not mean that the city, streets, residential areas should be uncomfortable.
— Look, how many people live here and how many of them! We is not possible!
I look at how many people live here and how many of them.
I look at new areas in the Swedish city of Gothenburg, which has a population of 500,000 people. 
I see the quarter building medium-rise, I see the green courtyards without cars, I see safe streets. 
And then I look at Orenburg with the same population. 
I see new neighborhoods, which mold the concrete 20-storey incubators for legacy projects 80-ies. They can be demolished now, not even settling. It is dangerous for people housing. 
But the Orenburg prove to me that they have no other way out: they have so many people lives that they can only settle here in such nests.
And it is Copenhagen, it is also almost as Orenburg. There live 600,000 people. 
In Copenhagen, why not do a 20-storey tenements, although the area of Denmark where less than the area of Russia. And earth they have little. Could save! 
They do make a normal profile of the street with safe crossings, with proper sidewalks and Parking lots. The Danes love each other and want everyone to live in normal conditions. Why such transitions and the roads not to do in Omsk? 
In Vladimir, where the lives of 300,000 people, build that. 
The ancient Russian city… And here is… How can this be? 
But Amsterdam! The capital of debauchery. Gay pride parades, marijuana, prostitutes… the horror! Lives in Amsterdam 1 million people. In Holland there is not enough space, they even the sea and occupy the land, constantly pouring something. They sure as hell need to build great neighborhoods! 
But no… 
There has not build. 
And in Chelyabinsk where lives a little more than a million people, build! Yes, a building! 
Just terrible neighborhoods. 
Without proper infrastructure, no real improvement. Just poultry. 
Living in Munich is 1.4 million people. I just got back from there, so soon there will be detailed posts. Traveled all the outskirts and looked at the new residential areas that they build. 
Munich – it’s almost like Krasnoyarsk! But in Munich somehow is also building housing the normal mid-rise with normal houses, with normal streets. 
Anybody in a head will not come here to build that building today in Krasnoyarsk. 
And in Krasnoyarsk easily. 
This whole horror. 
But new housing is built in Berlin, which has a population of 3.5 million people. 
Peter here are the entrances. 
In East Berlin, where he built such houses as in St. Petersburg, the entrances look like today: 
And Berlin’s budget much like Peter.
So they have now looks normal our five-story building. 
Why don’t you want to have built a normal house? So we designed the regular streets, with convenient yards, good public space? The majority does not even consider this possibility! These issues are not discussed in the kitchen, do not speak about it in the news, do not remove the transmission. As if all is well. Look out the window! Outside the window is a disaster! What we are building today, have to endure while in these homes and neighborhoods were settled people. But the problems we don’t even notice!
If today to ask ordinary Russian people what kind of car he would like to have, then the person is likely to immediately will give you five models good machines. He wants to have a Mercedes or a Ferrari, or a brand new “Land cruiser”. That is, most of us understands what a good car. It’s most likely never in such machines did not even sit. People will never able this machine to buy, but no one bothers about these dream machines. Dream since childhood! Remember how in school we studied global auto industry for the ear to chewing gum “Turbo”? Any teenager knew how much horsepower a car, what models, etc.
Any men have an understanding of how to look like a beautiful woman. And women sit on diets, go to the sports halls to fit the ideals of men.
But today, if you ask where people wanted to live, he at first confused, and then show concrete bag in another ghetto. He wants to under the window he was a giant Park, all the lawns were behind fences to the front door was metal and all ruined by ads. The main thing is to not have benches and it is better that in the yard there was nothing. And the homeless and drug addicts to gather. He wants a wide road – it is advisable to have expanded, eliminating the tram. He wants a new interchange in the city centre. For the sake of decoupling is to demolish several historic buildings.
That is, even in my dreams the average person has no idea of what kind of housing can be in the twenty-first century. What the yards, streets and public spaces can be. Most people do not know how to live! As it is, no cars in the yard? As it is, a good Playground? Maybe because photos are nice areas do not print on the ear to chewing gum? Maybe because magazines don’t make posters with photos of correct and yards of good architecture?
You now say that we have no money for all this. It’s not true. Homes and districts in European cities, shown above, are not always expensive. Looks like social housing. If you compare the construction cost, also will not be miracles. What happened when we was 10 years old the money? When we didn’t know what to do with the windfall from the sale of resources, we have built more housing? Maybe we did a good areas? Or designed correctly? All of these poor neighborhoods was built when we had a lot of money! More than Germany, France and Denmark. You think to design a proper street more than wrong?
You know we got killed on the roads in 5-10 times more people than in Europe? Many people could be saved if the street is properly engineered. Just right to design. It would have saved thousands of lives.
Until public demand for more quality of life, nothing will change. Until people start to dream about good houses, yards, streets, parks, waterfronts, nothing will change. However much money it was.
Reading most reviews, especially in various regional forums, I face a wall of misunderstanding. City officials, mayors and ordinary citizens deny themselves and others the right to live a normal life. “WE WILL LIVE IN SHIT! THIS IS OUR SHIT AND WE WILL LIVE! HANDS OFF! DON’T DESTROY OUR CAMP!” And then you fall asleep with a barrage of arguments, explaining why nothing ever happens. Weather, money, mentality, a special way, a lot of people, few people etc.
Why do you hate Russian? Why don’t you want to live right? Maybe not today, maybe in 50 years. Today let me at least dream.
