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Human-Made Things Are Incredible Too And These 30 Striking Photos Of Cities Shared In This Online Group Prove It
Some may think that humans ruined the natural landscape by building tall skyscrapers and houses, but there is some charm to them too. It is especially interesting to see the differences between cities, how they developed and how new and old cities are so different.
The most famous city skylines are considered the ones in Chicago, New York, and Dubai, but there are so many other beautiful cities. That’s why a subreddit like r/CityP*** exists where people share high-quality images of cities and those photos are real eye candy.
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Planned This Shot For Months Before Coming To The Us, But I Didn't Expect The Sun To Make The Rails Golden. Sometimes Photography Is Just About Being A Lucky Bastard
The subreddit was created 10 years ago in 2011 and currently has 724k members. Users share stunning photos that you can't take your eyes off of.
These photos are not only skylines with stunning sunsets behind them but also images from the flight of a bird, interesting and unexpected places in the middle of a city or how nature intertwines with a cityscape.
Mexican Town Pachuca Is One Big Mural
Pachuca is not a town. It is a city, also known as La Bella Airosa (Beautiful Windy) . Painting this moural was part of a program to reclaim open spaces in the city and to reduce violence and delinquency. This neighbourhood is called "Palmitas". Those who live there were involved in the making and during the development of the project, violence and delinquency dropped. The design are waves of wind visible as one runs along one of the main avenues in the city, but it has lots of small details that can be appreciated only by walking though the alleyways. (I was born and raised in this city, but a few years ago I moved. Writing this comment made me miss it so much.)
Getting people involved in bettering their environment is an effective way to reduce deliquency. In my city, they asked the schoolkids to participate in gardening. It stopped the adults from littering or damaging the parks.
Load More Replies...Does one developer own the whole community? Otherwise that is a remarkably cooperative group of people. I’ve seen duplexes where one half is painted harshly out of sync with the other side.
Unfortunately, a lot of nice looking things like this in South American countries, are just the rich people painting the houses of the destitute so their view is better
They did that for the World Cup. Why get rid of a slum when you can paint it?
My City: Groningen In The North Of The Netherlands. This Is Actually My View
A Literal Urban Jungle, Taipei, Taiwan
In these photos you can clearly see how modern cities developed quite differently from the older ones, especially in the photos taken from above. For example, old European cities often developed organically, spreading from some sort of a center and the more modern cities were developed according to a plan so that is why they look so neat and have straight streets as opposed to curvy roads in many European cities’ historical centers.
London, UK 🇬🇧
Rio De Janeiro, Brazil (From A Different Angle)
Gorgeous! It looks like a river of gold has splashed down the valley
Reykjavík
Lhasa, Tibet
Was there in 2019. I really liked it. Such amazing history there.
Probably the most iconic skyline is considered the one of the Windy City, Chicago. The ten-story Home Insurance Building in Chicago, built in 1884–1885 is considered by many to be the first skyscrapers in the world. It’s not that tall by today’s standards as it’s 42.1 meters (138 feet) tall, but then it was record-setting.
Chicago’s most famous skyscraper is the 110-story Willis Tower, still commonly referred to as the Sears Tower. It’s 442 meters (1,450 feet) and adds to the beautiful skyline with Lake Michigan lying behind it.
Happy New Year! Moscow, Russia
Dresden, Germany
Dresden was never on out bucket list, but so glad we went. It is beautiful and different, especially if you know the history( look it up, it's worth the read). The people are very nice too, and their opera is amazing. We went to see West Side Story there, and that was how we ended up visiting the city.
Bern, Switzerland
Skyscrapers are a big part of the city skyline. The most well-known skylines often are in cities with tall buildings and that have some sort of body of water nearby. In this list there are cityscapes with both taller and shorter buildings. It seems that people really like night images, probably because of the light effects.
These are the best submissions to the subreddit for you to enjoy. Tell us which cityscapes marveled you the most and don’t forget to upvote the images that you liked the better!
Suspension Railway In Wuppertal, Germany
Beautiful Night View Of Lombard Street, San Francisco
Tokyo Looking Like Another World
Alesund, Norway
Skating To Toronto
Wow! Can you really do that? Even if it is possible I couldn’t do it, I skate like a robot that’s desperate for a wee.
New York City. What An Amazing Image
I Thought It Was Cool My First Time Flying Into Chicago Looked Like I Was Flying Into A Computer!
A Foggy Day In Dubai
The Gateway Arch In St. Louis, Missouri During The Recent Snowstorm
Cork, Ireland, Covered By A Fresh Blanket Of Snow
French Quarter, New Orleans
Marcel Gerard... The King Of French Quarters, New Orleans. {The Originals}
Photo Of The NYC Blackout From My Friend
Casablanca, Morocco
Venice
The View From My Desk In Chicago, Il, USA Isn't One You See Often And I'm Really Going To Miss It
The Best Photo I've Taken In Chicago. From The Roof Of The Hard Rock Hotel
This photograph reminds me of the picture from the video "Bring me To life" by "Evananscence " , When the girl sleepwalks along the windowseals ....It's almost like from the same scene, or is it just me ?
Central Park In Fall, New York
The Flatiron, New York. Photo By: Stephen Wilkes
That's an interesting effect, day and night on different sides of the building
The Boundary Between Scottsdale, Arizona, USA And The Salt River Indian Reservation
So nice of the Americans to give the natives some of their own land back
Sydney, Australia
Smooth Angle, Streets Of Toronto
Toronto From My Airbnb
I remember when I was little, driving in from the West end of the city you could tell if the Skydome (I refuse to say Rogers Center) was opened or closed from like Mississauga. Now you can't tell until you're right beside it with all the condos
Montmartre, Paris, France
Aerial Shot Of Vancouver In 1988
My favourite city in the world, if I could just afford to live there
Chicago... 1969
Chicago, Illinois
The Canyons Of New York City
I love crossing the avenues in Manhattan. At the middle, look in either direction and you can see all the way to the water.
Tel Aviv, Israel
An amazing city, but just 70 kilometers south the beach is not as idyllic in Gaza.
San Francisco, California
A Photo Of NYC Like No Other
Tokyo
Chinatown, New York
Ginza, Tokyo's Top Shopping District
Convenience Store Next To A Lush Street Tree Near Downtown Seoul, South Korea
HK
Density Of Tokyo
NYC
I have been to NYC several times but never realized how big Central Park is until seeing some of these photos.
Dundas Square Toronto
It Hurts How Beautiful This City Is. NYC
I'd amend the caption to say there are tons of beautiful spots in NYC, but by contrast much of the city is crowded and dirty.
Sure, cities look neat at times - but growing up in small towns has spoiled me. Real beauty (for myself) has a lot of nature.
I love this kind of photo series! I live in in a city in western Germany with not much nature around. These photos show how many beautiful spots on earth exist, thank you for everyone sharing these pictures.
Enough pics of Toronto, NYC, and Chicago? As an Ontarian I enjoy Toronto, but there should be pictures of Quebec City. Amazing place.
I missed seeing pictures of Southern California... No Los Angeles skyline???
Load More Replies...Everything looks fabulous. But now let,s talk about smell: not in the perfumy, bathroom freshener sense but in the sense of revitalizing your entire being by taking in a huge breath of something vital. That is how the first Europeans to set foot in the Americas described the smell of the land. They had simply forgotten what clean air feels like.
I really like small European cities like Durham, Ripon, Lincoln or Périgueux.
Different countries in Africa are modernizing and developing beautiful cityscapes. It will just take a while.
Load More Replies...Sure, cities look neat at times - but growing up in small towns has spoiled me. Real beauty (for myself) has a lot of nature.
I love this kind of photo series! I live in in a city in western Germany with not much nature around. These photos show how many beautiful spots on earth exist, thank you for everyone sharing these pictures.
Enough pics of Toronto, NYC, and Chicago? As an Ontarian I enjoy Toronto, but there should be pictures of Quebec City. Amazing place.
I missed seeing pictures of Southern California... No Los Angeles skyline???
Load More Replies...Everything looks fabulous. But now let,s talk about smell: not in the perfumy, bathroom freshener sense but in the sense of revitalizing your entire being by taking in a huge breath of something vital. That is how the first Europeans to set foot in the Americas described the smell of the land. They had simply forgotten what clean air feels like.
I really like small European cities like Durham, Ripon, Lincoln or Périgueux.
Different countries in Africa are modernizing and developing beautiful cityscapes. It will just take a while.
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