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veen  ·  3479 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Ugly Belgian Houses

It's a sort of inside joke among Dutch planners. Belgium has never had strong urban planning laws. Because of this, there are houses literally everywhere and as this site shows, they're often ugly because there are little to no building codes / regulations.