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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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#1
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
denzoren 4 years ago
I like how the lanes are reflecting...making it look like a circuit board.
riley_is_not_your_friend 4 years ago
I live in sf. I assure you it's not like this most of the time. Foggy mostly. An no one except tourists ride cable cars. But still. Fantastic picture.
Spikey Bunny 4 years ago
I only wish the top of the bridge wasn't cut off... gorgeous picture!!!
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.
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#2
Mexican Town Pachuca Is One Big Mural
Ara Noguera 4 years ago
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.)
Laugh or not 4 years ago
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.
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Raymond Pobiak 4 years ago
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.
Neil Bidle 4 years ago
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
#3
My City: Groningen In The North Of The Netherlands. This Is Actually My View
Kristy Martinez 4 years ago
super cute archtecture ! i will try to replicate one of these houses with freshpaint software ..
Kimberly Greenock 4 years ago
Those little driveways on the end. Looks like they are used to back in and turn around give me shivers omg
Candia Lee 4 years ago
Center right it looks like there is a wide gravel road running in front of the houses. Tiny backyards with boat docks.
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A Literal Urban Jungle, Taipei, Taiwan
Nikki Sevven 4 years ago
These kinds of open, green spaces should be required at regular intervals in every city.
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.
#5
London, UK 🇬🇧
Katinka Min 4 years ago
Ti looks less magical in real life, without a photos, but, yes, certain corners of London are really pretty.
Jo Falkinder 4 years ago
Lot of filtering going on here, although London is very beautiful, it is also permanently raining, grey and slightly dark
#6
Rio De Janeiro, Brazil (From A Different Angle)
Hannah Edwards 4 years ago
Gorgeous! It looks like a river of gold has splashed down the valley
Nikki Sevven 4 years ago
If Rio can connect a bunch of valleys together into one cohesive city, there's no reason for the isolation and lack of services in the hollows of West Virginia...except for the uncaring politicians they keep voting to represent them, who then do absolutely nothing for their constituents.
SydneyP 4 years ago
Or we could just admire this beautiful scenery and appreciate it? I mean go ahead with your unnecessary political rant if you choose but I prefer to enjoy the beauty in life. It's okay to just enjoy things and much less invasive. I wish you well:)
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#7
Reykjavík
Scott Rackley 4 years ago
Iceland people are awesome, they'll invite you into their homes. "Have you ate, here, have some." Truly salt of the earth when I was there. They were in awe of my accent (lousiana born and bred)
Kristy Martinez 4 years ago
it kind of motivates me to learn islanska even though i am learning french now
Randolph Croft 4 years ago
I hate to say it, but that seems like a very complicated LEGO church.
#8
Lhasa, Tibet
ThePracticalSarcastic 4 years ago
Was there in 2019. I really liked it. Such amazing history there.
Sabse 4 years ago
What history? That of the murder and oppression of the Tibetan people?
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Treessimontrees 4 years ago
Strange. I always pictured Lhasa's Potala Palace as out in a total wilderness. Nothing like what's in the foreground.
Casey Bazewick 4 years ago
What the Chinese have done to Lhasa and to the Tibetan people is an atrocity.
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.
#9
Happy New Year! Moscow, Russia
Chloe *Leah* Pheonix 4 years ago
Moscow if probably one of my favorite cities because of that building
#10
Dresden, Germany
Wendy 4 years ago
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.
Kimberly Greenock 4 years ago
My mom lived in Heidelberg in the 60s for about 6 years. She LOVED Dresden. I think she bought the entire country's stockpile of Dresden figurines they had hoped to sell to the masses. Nope I think she and my dad just went on a bender. SMH
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Airis Malfoy 4 years ago
I am literally want to go there... That huge building is giving me Gringotts vibes...
Stephen Lyford 4 years ago
It's amazing for it to look like this, considering most of the city was bombed into the Stone Age during WWII.
#11
Bern, Switzerland
Sanne H. 4 years ago
In summer, you’re allowed to swim in this river too (and you can swim pretty close to the Bern bear pit)
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Kristy Martinez 4 years ago
I normally do not like natural stuff , but this photograph displays a harmony between the medieval and modern infrastructure along with an incredible nature....-) It reminds a little of Senji Croatia where I was born that medieval style architecture .
Ruth Bolders-Parsons 4 years ago
Lived in Bern for a while, just loved it. Such a lovely city.
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!
#12
Suspension Railway In Wuppertal, Germany
Spinning Leila 4 years ago
Vintage and current filming side by side https://youtu.be/7TqqdOcX4dc
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QueerTheory 4 years ago (edited)
Been there, its even more amazing because a huge part of this bahn goes over a river! you can see fishes floating if you look down.
Jo Falkinder 4 years ago
A wee bit of wholesome for the serial commentors - my Grandma was born in Wuppertal but after moving to the UK during WW2, she spoke very little about her homeland and all of her important documents were largely destroyed during raids on Berlin. Miraculously, after a long time searching - we were able to locate Wuppertal as her birthplace because of a story a second cousin of my uncle heard her telling of how she used to love riding the 'flying trains' We are now very close to finding her mother, and an apparently comprehensive Polish contingent of the family ❤️
#13
Beautiful Night View Of Lombard Street, San Francisco
Casey Bazewick 4 years ago (edited)
When I lived in San Francisco, I had unsuspecting fiends, who had never been to San Francisco before, drive down "the crooked street in the world." They squealed with surprise and delight. And drove it again and again!
Purbasha Banai 4 years ago
Does anybody know the price of the apartments in Lombard Street? Price or rent, anything?
Katrina 4 years ago
You're only allowed to go down it at like 5 miles an hour, super slow.
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Tokyo Looking Like Another World
#15
Alesund, Norway
Bobert Robertson 4 years ago
I can't wait to visit....always my dream to go to Norway, then my sister moved there and we missed her wedding due to the pandemic... but will get there for a celebration with them soon!
#16
Skating To Toronto
Hannah Edwards 4 years ago
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.
Bobert Robertson 4 years ago
This is a fluke... Generally with the exception of the bay of quinte and some smaller harbours, the lake does not fully freeze over, it's simply too big. And even if it does, I would not want to skate on it. I live in the area, and am also an ice fisherman, and would never feel safe on that ice.
s. vitkovitsky 4 years ago
My friends who live on the island do that thing where you skate holding onto a sail apparatus. There are areas that freeze up better than others.
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Barbara Skolly 4 years ago
Its a view from one of the Toronto Islands, skater is likely close to shore. The rest of the"ice" is blurred because it's likely not actually frozen.
Kristy Martinez 4 years ago
OmG how cool is that ! That is a dream come true ! Is that a synthetic ice ?
Candia Lee 4 years ago
I call fake. Zoomed in it doesn't look like ice, there's a 'hole' in front of him, and a weird crack.
#17
New York City. What An Amazing Image
Zara VP 4 years ago (edited)
Looks like a post-apocalyptical world with New York covered in ash.
Kimberly Young 4 years ago
Damn, I knew Central Park was massive, but this really puts it into perspective.
Nathan Pogorzala 4 years ago
It really shows the quality and depth of the bedrock in this shot.
#18
I Thought It Was Cool My First Time Flying Into Chicago Looked Like I Was Flying Into A Computer!
Susan Bosse 4 years ago
Tre 98th floor of the John Hancock bldg has a restaurant. The back wall of the ladies' room is a full glass window. Some of the most amazing pictures I took on our trip were from that bathroom and look like this photo. Sent my hubby to the men's room so he could see. Their bathroom is just a wall. Hahahaha
#19
A Foggy Day In Dubai
The Cute Cat 4 years ago
Been there.. Actually it is kinda boring.. Only skyscrapers with pricey stuff..
Stephen Lyford 4 years ago
They know they're going to run out of oil eventually, so are probably hoping to turn themselves into a tourist attraction while they still have the money to do so.
Candia Lee 4 years ago
Amazing how the clouds are flowing over and between the buildings on the right like some great tidal wave.
Aamna Shah 4 years ago (edited)
I wonder why you only said that here. Apparently some European arms exporting countries to Middle Eastern dictators didn't have a single negative comment here but Dubai brings out the bigotry from the so called progressive world. Islamophobic much? Well I already know the answer to that one.
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The Gateway Arch In St. Louis, Missouri During The Recent Snowstorm
Hilary Mol 4 years ago
Man, I miss living there. But not the summers, where it just feels like you've crawled into the world's biggest armpit. This photo is gorgeous.
Toast Of Saint Louis 4 years ago
I am born and raised here and right now it's hot and sticky. There's been some rain lately but still hot and sticky. I live a 10 min walk from the Arch. I really do enjoy living downtown.
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Cork, Ireland, Covered By A Fresh Blanket Of Snow
Kirsti-Tina Thompson 4 years ago
Had a massive snow storm a few years back. Everything was shut down for nearly a week. Is a beautiful angle of St Finbarrs
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#22
French Quarter, New Orleans
Airis Malfoy 4 years ago
Marcel Gerard... The King Of French Quarters, New Orleans. {The Originals}
Whawhawhatsis 4 years ago
That one building is in about 90% of the photos of the Quarter, I believe. Clearly, this photo is taken in the morning right after the cleaning crews have removed the "gravy" from the gutters and before a new accumulation has had a chance to be deposited. (Yes, that's what it's called! Just don't ask what's in it {::shudder::}!
Jennifer Gould 4 years ago
Ever since AHS I immediately think of Miss Delphine Lalaurie stuck under the pavement!
IlovemydogShilo 4 years ago
As soon as I saw this photo the song When the Saints Go Marching In Mardi Gras Jazz Band style played in my head. You can hear the music as soon as you see the scenes of this amazing place.
#23
Photo Of The NYC Blackout From My Friend
denzoren 4 years ago
Imagine being in the building right before the building with the lights...seeing them basking in power while you sulk in the dark.
Vicky Z 4 years ago
😅😅😅we said the exact same thing! When i wrote it thought it was the first comment so i guess we wrote it the same time!
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Lucy Snatchko 4 years ago
look at the fireworks, look at the fireworks, light up the night sky.... en washington heights
Kimberley Gayle Thomas 4 years ago
I remember decades ago when where I lived experienced a blackout. I had just gone grocery shopping a day or two before, so my refrigerator was full and happy. 24hrs after the blackout, I began to Pro & Con what I would stuff my face with and what I would get rid of. To homeless if possible. Fortunately, that's when electricity came back on. "Dodged a bullet there."
#24
Casablanca, Morocco
Natalia A 4 years ago
Meticulously planned but I wouldn't say well planned. Very few shared/open spaces for example.
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#25
Venice
KatHat 4 years ago
Well, sometimes it's overcrowding and other times it's just good use of space. We should be building more densely more of the time; we use far more resources per person when we're all spread out.
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Maggie Dinzler Shaw 4 years ago
Loved Venice. Clean, yes clean and best gelato on Earth. Melon.
Ara Noguera 4 years ago
Venice was built on a very small territory because it is not one mass of land but many small islands. It has public and private gardens, but nothing occupying lots of square metres.
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The View From My Desk In Chicago, Il, USA Isn't One You See Often And I'm Really Going To Miss It
Spikey Bunny 4 years ago
I went on an architectural tour by boat and it was my favorite part of my trip. Gorgeous buildings everywhere and all along the waterfront too.
M O'Connell 4 years ago
Well they work at 225N Michigan Avenue, the big American flag is hanging on the Wrigley building.
#27
The Best Photo I've Taken In Chicago. From The Roof Of The Hard Rock Hotel
Kristy Martinez 4 years ago
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 ?
Susan Bosse 4 years ago
The 98th floor of the John Hancock bldg has a restaurant. The back wall of the ladies' room is a full glass window. Some of the most amazing pictures I took on our trip were from that bathroom and look like this photo. Sent my hubby to the men's room so he could see. Their bathroom is just a wall. Hahahaha
Spikey Bunny 4 years ago
My favorite building of them all is the building the Hard Rock is in in Chicago! It black marble with copper accents. Gorgeous!!!
#28
Central Park In Fall, New York
Kristin Ingersoll 4 years ago (edited)
But... Ferris was in Chicago? Oh. The lyrics. Duh.
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The Flatiron, New York. Photo By: Stephen Wilkes
Whawhawhatsis 4 years ago
That's an interesting effect, day and night on different sides of the building
An Co 4 years ago
Composite of 2 photos. There is a photographer that loves to do these composites.
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I understand everyone seems to like this one, but it looks oddly fake to me. Sorry
Candia Lee 4 years ago
All of Stephen Wilkes most famous photos use a similar technique to merge images of a scene taken at different seasons or times of day. Perhaps it's an acquired taste.
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The high line is 5 avenues away from this, about half a mile.
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The Boundary Between Scottsdale, Arizona, USA And The Salt River Indian Reservation
Neil Bidle 4 years ago
So nice of the Americans to give the natives some of their own land back
s. vitkovitsky 4 years ago
All land used to be someone else's land in the past.
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Candia Lee 4 years ago
Saw this on another list without explanation. Thanks, title writer. White people making a mockery of living in the desert.
Risa Jacobson 4 years ago
My mom's house is literally in this picture. Sometimes you can see wild horses on the reservation.
Vika Nordin 4 years ago
This one I literally love the most! Imagine living at the exact border and having that great view over the land and no houses, just nature.
Ole Peder Amrud Hagen 4 years ago
Nothing great about this. Horrible land management, colonialism and unsustainable urbanism in one picture.
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#31
Sydney, Australia
#33
Toronto From My Airbnb
Bobert Robertson 4 years ago
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
Nathan Pogorzala 4 years ago
That is a pretty city. You can clearly see the skyline (CN, Skydome, the million Canadian banks) from clear across Lake Ontario and it is pretty fantastic.
#34
Montmartre, Paris, France
cassiushumanmother 4 years ago
That's why the café is called "la halte", so you can have a break here before "hiking" the steps.
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Aerial Shot Of Vancouver In 1988
Bobert Robertson 4 years ago
My favourite city in the world, if I could just afford to live there
DarkAngelNic 4 years ago
I wouldn't live there right now. 134 people have died from the heat wave in Vancouver.
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ApexScavenger 4 years ago
I love how Stanley Park is so big and gets the best real estate! First park in the world to be made available "to the use and enjoyment of peoples of all colours, creeds, and customs, for all time".
#36
Chicago... 1969
M O'Connell 4 years ago
The John Hancock Center tower (black, in the background) had just opened that year.
#37
Chicago, Illinois
Whawhawhatsis 4 years ago
Where's all the traffic? I've never seen downtown Chicago with no traffic -- how odd!
Dennis Mahoney 4 years ago
LaSalle Street dead ends in front of the Board of Trade building, which is where the photographer is taking this picture. It looks like this on Sat-Sun, and anytime past 8pm. It's far south in the Loop and not much goes on there after hours. A few blocks to the east, the west and north it's busy...but in this spot, it's not. That's the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago on the left.
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#39
The Canyons Of New York City
Tracy Costa 4 years ago
I love crossing the avenues in Manhattan. At the middle, look in either direction and you can see all the way to the water.
#40
Tel Aviv, Israel
Ole Peder Amrud Hagen 4 years ago
An amazing city, but just 70 kilometers south the beach is not as idyllic in Gaza.
#42
A Photo Of NYC Like No Other
#43
Tokyo
#45
Ginza, Tokyo's Top Shopping District
#46
Convenience Store Next To A Lush Street Tree Near Downtown Seoul, South Korea
#48
Density Of Tokyo
#49
NYC
Heather Higgins 4 years ago
I have been to NYC several times but never realized how big Central Park is until seeing some of these photos.
zizou entertainment 4 years ago
i bet they will remove central park in the future
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Dundas Square Toronto
#51
It Hurts How Beautiful This City Is. NYC
Whawhawhatsis 4 years ago
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.
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Misty Grage 4 years ago
Sure, cities look neat at times - but growing up in small towns has spoiled me. Real beauty (for myself) has a lot of nature.
Vika Nordin 4 years ago
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.
Bobert Robertson 4 years ago
Enough pics of Toronto, NYC, and Chicago? As an Ontarian I enjoy Toronto, but there should be pictures of Quebec City. Amazing place.
Spikey Bunny 4 years ago
I missed seeing pictures of Southern California... No Los Angeles skyline???
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Beatrice Multhaupt 4 years ago
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.
Tim Pillinger 4 years ago
I really like small European cities like Durham, Ripon, Lincoln or Périgueux.
Dave Jones 4 years ago
Different countries in Africa are modernizing and developing beautiful cityscapes. It will just take a while.
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Misty Grage 4 years ago
Sure, cities look neat at times - but growing up in small towns has spoiled me. Real beauty (for myself) has a lot of nature.
Vika Nordin 4 years ago
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.
Bobert Robertson 4 years ago
Enough pics of Toronto, NYC, and Chicago? As an Ontarian I enjoy Toronto, but there should be pictures of Quebec City. Amazing place.
Spikey Bunny 4 years ago
I missed seeing pictures of Southern California... No Los Angeles skyline???
Load More Replies... Beatrice Multhaupt 4 years ago
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.
Tim Pillinger 4 years ago
I really like small European cities like Durham, Ripon, Lincoln or Périgueux.
Dave Jones 4 years ago
Different countries in Africa are modernizing and developing beautiful cityscapes. It will just take a while.
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