81 — Otto Wagner — 3/5 — On the Stadtbahn
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The Impact of the Second War on the City
It must have been very exciting and a great time for an architect like there's a lot of stuff being built it's very unlike the society that we live in. He definitely did make them more artistic which he would have been proud of and also terrifically pro city in pro growth. The incentive to knock things down and build bigger buildings on them hasn't really been there in the same way so much of this stuff i don't know it's a bit grown up in the war but compared to anywhere else i can think of it's a remarkably well-preserved city at that scale.
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