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    How do people in Kosovo feel about the Yugoslav-era buildings and architecture?

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    2. dropclipboard on

      Ugly asf, qimi nans ta shet qymezin 30m katror 120K
      Mbi te gjitha ndertesa qe jane ndertu prej okupatorit

    3. Willing_Corner2661 on

      I see a lot of online “Eastern Europe” aesthetic stuff, things like Molchat Doma edits, squatting Slav memes, POV: Eastern Europe urban decay TikToks etc. It’s kind of been meme-ified internationally

      I’m curious how locals feel about it. Sometimes it feels like outsiders romanticize that grey socialist look while locals see it as just everyday life or even want it gone

      Is there nostalgia for the architecture/socialist-modernist era?

      Is it seen as part of Kosovo’s identity or mainly a relic of Yugoslavia?

      How does it compare to the newer developments?

    5. JumpApprehensive9949 on

      Ish – jugosllave kanë pas kualitet ma të mirë dhe izolim ma të mirë. Ama edhe kto te rruga B veç të kishin qenë pak ma të planifikume mirë se për ndryshe atje biznesi ec flakë

    6. CompleteConfidence71 on

      Pa tingllu jugo-nostalgjike, nuk ka banesa t’planifikume ma mire se banesat qe jane ndertu n’kohe t’jugosllavise

    7. AltinBs on

      Qysh pe shoh une osht vija e lakmise kapitaliste. As nje mini park nuk e ki ne Muharrem Fejze tu u munu me maksimizu kuoten e ndertimit. Nejse, pa faj nuk osht as komuna hiq.

    8. AllMightAb on

      All communists architecture is devoided of artistic expression and passion, it clearly reflects the hearts and minds of communist, brutalist, and effective to the bear minimum. Depressing to even look at.

    9. arisaurusrex on

      We have no clue about city planning. That‘s why in 20 years we will have no „old city“ left, since everyone and their grandmamas are destroying the old buildings and putting 20 story buildings instead with no plan to increase the infrastructure for those buildings.

    10. gresdian on

      I mean, you also can see the difference between Albania and Kosovo for what concerns infrastructure. Yugoslav infrastructure was planned by some of the best engineers in the world and they built lots of stuff in Africa, still working to this day. Kosovo had reasonable urban planning (even though flawed and definitely worse than in the richest republics), while Albania was a complete mess (this is especially reflected by Tirana whose planning doesn’t make any sense. Roads were and still are disastrous in Albania. It took 20 years to build a vital road like Rruga e Arberit (50 km), shortening what was a 10 hour trip in communist times to one hour. Meanwhile, Kosovo under Yugoslavia had a decent road connecting Skopje to Prishtina, in a land as mountainous

    11. Tomorr3 on

      Pre-independence Kosova urban planning wins only because of the green spaces between buildings, otherwise it gives me a soulless communist vibe

    13. bleta_punetore on

      Ja kanë qr fare. Në vend të merrnin shembull nga Tirana që u shkërdhye nga të katra anët në “demokraci”, edhe Prishtina po njësoj, vk sa e urrejmë veten!

    14. HeadIntroduction3256 on

      Menjehere pas lufte per Prishtinen ka pas plan per kete pune, prandaj mafia e ndertimit e pat vra njeriun kyç ne kete pune.
      Ndertesat e kohes jugosllave ndoshta nuk jane aq te bukura nga stili, por vetem shikojeni sa bukur me plan, gjelbrimi, rruga.

    16. Dardan_Gashi on

      A din qka o forja, sa here qe osht permend urbanizmi i periudhes komuniste & socialiate, gjithmone osht konsideru si “Urban Hell”, plan e arkitekture shume depresive!

      Ne Prishtine bash qeto levdohen, llogarit sa llom duhet me kon ne periudhen post-komuniste per me u vleresu arkitektura e komunizmit!

    17. Krasniqi857 on

      ugly. They show a weird ideological architecture which is just disconnected from the place and the residents living there. Commue buildings usually fall in thst category and are just as ugly as their capitalistic counterparts

    18. NoScreen54 on

      i live in yugo blocks, and imo they are amazing. space for the inhabitants to park their cars, space for greenery, sufficient space for kids to play in various parks.

      now, there is a problem, with parking (I live in Prizren) due to the gentrification and lots of cafes, bars opening up, which considering how car dependent the people here are, it is a nightmare for us who live in those apartments.

    19. Weak_Magician1992 on

      Le ta kthejmin këtë vend në komunizëm sepse e kemi keq kuptu lirin “demokaraci”
      më falni nëse po shprehna me këtë gjuh…