Social Criticism (Car Reflection series IV)

Füredi úti lakótelep in Budapest, Hungary—the old prefabricated tenement houses were the synonyms of ugly, grey and dull. The concept originated from Monsieur Le Corbusier's Unite de l'Habitation in Marseilles, but without decorative and community features of the French example... In the communist era these "home factories served populations of small villages: some of them gave home to more than 200 families. These were the not really comfortable, not really bad and absolutely affordable alternatives of old style flats and houses. They were planned for a life span of 50 years and nowadays they are supervised and got reinforcement and maintenance to stand more 50 years or so because people got accustomed and even started to like in "panels" (the common name for prefabricated houses here). But they are not the rich people's choice

This is usually visible by the look at the cars parking in front and around of them. The old Trabants and other communist era vehicles already substituted by Suzukis (made in Hungary) and Opels (partly made in Hungary) and others. Exotic cars turning up here and there mostly as visitors. The cars reflect the life of the people—and it is not only a figure of speach. 

Another BMW, an X6 (afair—or a 5 series?) reflecting one of the old houses with some criticism on the licence plate... (This is the actual plate, no editing were done.)

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