You should spend about 40 minutes on this task. In the past, buildings often reflected the culture of a society but today all modern buildings look alike and cities throughout the world are becoming more and more similar. What do you think is the reason for this, and is it a good thing or a bad thing? Write at least 250 words.

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In
past
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the past
every
country
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had its own design of
building
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the building
which reflected their culture and to make house adopt to the location’s
climate
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changes. People in
past
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the past
were wiser and they knew which material is best for to build the house in some particular place. In modern society the building architectural design
is same almost
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is almost same
everywhere.
For example
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, city building plan: in
city center
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the city centre
city centre
there are skyscrapers or tall buildings close to
center
an area that is approximately central within some larger region
centre
enter
there are similar apartments and in suburban areas and
country
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sides there are houses with two
floor
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floors
.
This
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system is same everywhere regardless of their culture,
climate
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changes and so on. Modern building didn’t have anything similar to past time buildings and unlike past time
buildings modern
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buildings, modern
building
don’t have
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doesn’t have
any cultural reflection of the
country
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. The reason for
this
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is that world population
increasing rapidly and to
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increasing rapidly and
provide
house
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housing
for everyone people start building tall apartments which could fit more people. It is hard to call
this
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good or bad thing because it destroys cultural values of
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country but
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the country, but
the country but
if they stick to old time building there will not be enough places for people to live. But I think it is close to bad thing because some countries when they build modern building they don’t adapt it for their own
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climate
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climate, for
for
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example building
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example, building
tall building
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tall buildings
a tall building
in a place where earthquakes are common which is dangerous. In
conclusion there
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conclusion, there
are a lot places where old building is restored. But I don’t think
that is
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enough I
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enough, I
think they should adapt the modern building to their
climate
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and culture.
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