True Left

Image gallery of ~80 colonial postcards from China:
https://imgur.com/a/U2wniV8

This forum post has links to some other old colonial architecture from other nations:
https://old.reddit.com/r/CulturalLayer/comments/8s43vv/antique_world_alternative_title_grand_unified/


(Strangely enough, the forum above is some weird scatter-brained Turanian-worshipping pseudo-archaeology thing):

The pseudohistorical conspiracy theory about Great Tartaria first appeared in Russia, popularized by Nikolai Levashov, and in Anatoly Fomenko’s New chronology. In Russian pseudoscience, known for its nationalism, Tartaria is presented as the "real" name for Russia, which was maliciously "ignored" in the West (for example, the 2011 film "Great Tartary - Empire of the Rus", posted on YouTube).[9][10] Since about 2016, conspiracy theories about the supposed lost empire of "Tartaria" have gained some steam on the English-speaking part of the Internet.

The conspiracy is based mostly in a misunderstanding of architectural history. Adherents suppose that demolished buildings such as the Singer Building, or the temporary grounds of the 1915's World's Fair were actually the buildings of a vast empire based in Tartary that has been suppressed from history. Sumptuously styled Gilded Age buildings are often held out as really having been built by the supposed Tartarian.
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However, such designs exist globally due to colonialism by empires such as Britain, Spain, and Portugal, not some lost empire such as Tartaria. The theory reflects a cultural discontent with modernism, and a supposition that traditional styles are inherently good and modern styles are bad.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tartary#Tartaria_conspiracy_theory

"With these preserved buildings around us, we would have viewed the whole world differently. And we would not have thought about Greece, and Rome, and Turkey as these separate places from us (here in North America). No, the whole world would have a unified feel once people realized that there was a one world people, building the same style - everywhere." JonLevi

https://old.reddit.com/r/tartarianarchitecture/

If that's the general name they want to give to global Turanian architecture, go ahead I guess.

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This forum has lots of old colonial postcards as well:
https://old.reddit.com/r/HistoricalStreetView

Nairobi:
https://imgur.com/a/t8nykUt

Algeria:
https://imgur.com/a/S2iv03b