gwern comments on Things you are supposed to like - Less Wrong

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Comment author: taelor 15 September 2012 09:11:38AM 4 points [-]

If someone insists that the solution to the residents of the new brutalist tower block wanting to kill themselves is to educate them on the finer points of architectural theory, then you have a civic problem.

Is this hyperbole, or is people committing suicide because of ugly architecture actually a thing? Citation Needed.

Comment author: gwern 16 September 2012 12:36:21AM 4 points [-]

Brutalist architecture & housing projects have been blamed, at least since Jacob's Life and Death, for the disintegration of neighborhoods into ghettos and blighted areas. So I think the claim seems plausible.