What does make a city look "European"?

What does make a city look "European"?

Is this kind of "town buildings" a European hallmark?

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Building style like your pic.
sidewalks and roads are mostly brick and not asphalt.
Not crowded.
Shop style looks euro.

Well I was undecided between "town buildings" like this and a castle/market/church centric type of city with the center being a castle and old market and everything around getting build later.

The further from the castle/market/church the younger the buildings are.

rows of 3-5 storey buildings like pic realted with lots of ornaments and shit

>sidewalks and roads are mostly brick and not asphalt.
wat, it's not the 19th century anymore

I mean like pic related

I dislike Euro towns. American towns or Soviet commie towns are better for my taste.

there is no european look. It's different in different countries and cultures.

>rosbif

On the sidenote:

Is having no asphalt a must? I mean "strict" centers tend to have nearly no roads, just walkways, but centers still have those buildings and are open for cars because without them the place would be paralized.

This.

Not really, but having none in residential areas and all gives it the European look.

>What does make a city look "European"?
hmm, the heavy history stealth behind the architecture?

You're probably talking about the "style" of those buildings.

Ugly generic western style without soul. Thanks christianity.

Our buildings don't look anything like that. The closest city where you may find those buildings is Brussels. Buildings in the Low Countries are built im this style (pic related).

white people

what makes it "European" is the absence of niggers on the photo

That pic was from France. Cool buildings though.

>European
>Nordic
>West norse
>Faroese

would you rather have ugly soviet commieblocks or nice old buildings?

That's a small town not a city though.

this
I am a Greek

the biggest city and capital.

Brussel looks a bit like this

however, it really depends on the neighbourhood. the Pentagon is still filled with typical ´Dutch-Flemmish´ architecture.

Well that's the, basically, main square of Brussels.

I'm more curious about the average streets with "city buildings" in the center rather than the main market, because the market covers a smaller part compared to the city center buildings.

a funny thing about Brussels is that there isn´t any average street. The main square has all those beautiful buildings covered with gold, the streets around it have mainly red brick or white houses, which doesn´t require a lot of space and the streets which aren´t in the Pentagon, (the area within the city walls) have a Parisian look. (pic related) may be a normal street in Brussels

Mainly just the visual style of the buildings. Europe happens to have the most of them so we associate that with Europe. Houses are also relatively low I guess apart from some outliers and church spires

Terrorist attacks, very european

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A large part of it is that the streetscape is designed at a human scale rather than an automotive scale. European cities feel more welcoming to pedestrians and cars are served after the needs of pedestrians.
In the US, cities are designed with moving vehicular trafic as a primary goal and pedestrians are secondary.

Well, it's hard to find streets like that outside Europe.

That's because Turkish towns look Russian more than anything desu

I have a fetish for cities that look European but aren't in Europe, literally gets me off

I've been to Istambul and it's very chaotic and dirty.

I do too. Especially when they're in third world / second world
Pic is Algiers.

Ye. Some places in argentina look nice and pretty european.

hnnngggggg

I want to visit here one day

It's far away though. I want to visit it too along with Montevideo.

Brazil

I'm not sure if pavements like that are a European thing desu I bet the yanks have that

yeah but it is associated with European towns, especially the ones with cool patterns.

Only in parks or "old city" areas where driving has been prohibited because the roads are too narrow and it's been gentrified or something, like in Philadelphia. Not very common

We have all kinds of cities from all kinds of culture here. German, italian, portuguese, ukrainian, japanese. There is even a american confederate city, a finnish city, a greek city. People from everywhere came live here in the past.

that looks extremely colonial.

Not really, looks like it could be a quaint Italian/Spanish town to the untrained eye.

>a american confederate city,
wat

We have people from everywhere, but the spanish are very rare here. We have portuguese architecture and everything else. If you see something that looks spanish, it isnt, its actually portuguese. Spanish culture or buildings are very rare to find here.

When the american confederates lost the civil war many of them came to Brazil. The founded he city of Americana, in the state of Sāo Paulo. They all speak portuguese and have mixed cultures now.

No, yanks just have concrete slabs and asfalt everywhere.

I bet they're regretting that

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- turn of the century apartment blocks
- brick buildings with plaster facade
Meanwhile in the US it's glass office highrises in the center and then immediately wooden one family houses. In the best case the "historical neighborhood" has some exposed brick blocks.

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nice try

Nah, São Paulo is times better than any Southern US shithole. Also, they're allowed to practice their traditions and wave the confederate banner without being labeled layciss by the media. And no they still speak English with an iconic southern accent, along with Portuguese, but that's it.

interesting. what's this confederate city called?

Americana.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Americana,_São_Paulo

Meh
Somehow ok, but dosn't have the feel.

Nah m8 it has a distinct new world feel to it.