• t0fr@lemmy.ca
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    1 year ago

    Are you suggesting this is not progress? Because this is honestly amazing.

    What’s the point of water if you can’t chill by the water

  • adhd michelle@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    1 year ago

    Why scare quotes? I lived in Düsseldorf back in '90 (go alts - that was the name of my school team, and yes it was sponsored by Alt bier 🍺… different times), it’s always been one of Germany’s more clean cut, upmarket cities, but this picture makes me want to go back and check it out again.

    Then again, I’m a queer transfem and I’m in BERLIN, THE QUEER CAPITAL OF THE WORLD. Düsseldorf is in the last instance just meh.

    • Phoebe@feddit.de
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      1 year ago

      I grew up next to Düsseldorf. I freaking love this city. Wouldn’t it be so expensiv i would live there.

      Because it is a magnet for anime fans, i early came in contact with queerness and different worldviews. Düsseldorf still has a big connection to art and due to figures like Joseph Beuys the art community is still pretty progressive. I went to university there and the campus had a progressiv Atmosphere there as well.

      But on the other side the city is full of rich and conservativ people. A weird contrast. I would say Düsseldorf is educated while cologne is more open and welcoming.

  • Yondu_the_Ravager@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Ah yeah they should’ve just done the American thing instead and bulldozed the whole strip of town to put in a 20 lane wide interstate with a Bucees and Walmart/s

    • SamsonSeinfelder@feddit.de
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      1 year ago

      Here is another picture. you can see the church in the background. The right side is the road to the houses, and on the left is the speed-way with 2x2 lanes. It was (still) crazy back then.

      EDIT: I was corrected. Its not. It is the substitute road.

      Here is a recent picture looking from the other direction. Again the church now on the left. It was a crazy project but it was well received by the Altstadt/Oldtown.

      In the German Wikipedia you can find another nice picture of the Rhine-Bank (Rhein-Ufer). It shows the Steps to the Rhine in 1900 - before the asphalt rolled over all that land. Notice the church and Tower in the back. And today.

      the substitute road

      • Cozy@feddit.de
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        1 year ago

        He said it looks like it’s photoshop and not real, but it is real, it’s just the weird lighting that makes it look like it. (Hope you wanted a real answer and your comment wasn’t just joking, couldn’t tell)

  • CeruleanRuin@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    As an American I’m just assuming that road was moved to be widened and a bunch of low income housing and many blocks worth of historic buildings were demolished in the process.

  • Hazdaz@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Are we going to magically assume the traffic just vanished?

    People and goods still need to be moved from one part of the city to another, as well as from other parts of the country and even internationally. Way too many of these “fuck cars” people naively think you can just wave a magic wand and make the transport of goods and people just disappear. Something would need to be done to solve that. Was an underground highway built? Alien teleportation? A fleet of magic carpets were made available that run on unicorn farts that allow people to get around?