31 Before-And-After Pics Showing How Famous Cities Changed Over Time

mary 3 years ago

looks cooooooooooooooooool

0points

Kristina Trick 9 years ago

If you're quoting the film you might be suffering from Mandela effect. he will come.

0points

Quant 9 years ago

mmm, tell that to the chinese: http://www.businessinsider.com/these-chinese-cities-are-ghost-towns-2016-2?IR=T

0points

Mary cLO 9 years ago

built by slave wage and housing of Asian imported workers...

6points

Zhang Jing 9 years ago

Just like French fries

4points

Michel Guntern 9 years ago

That's some mega-constructing.

1point

José Valente 9 years ago

Looks a bit like the old Blade Runner sets if climate change had gone the other way (i.e., if it had gone the way it is going). Far too ugly and densely packed and parched. It's just a huge show off, I know. The population is actually quite small, fine. But with all the money something a little less hard on the eye could..should have been possible, surely? I admit the location is against you but work with it not against it. It looks a bit like Hong Kong without the scenery or Las Vegas without the sin. Or the family-friendly Fun places. It looks mostly just very boring and HOT. Not in a sexy way either...

1point

Liz Nickelson 9 years ago

city of the damned

1point

Jeremy Moss 9 years ago

If you build it fast and cheap, it will burn

1point

The Goose 2 years ago

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0points

The Goose 2 years ago

u

0points

Cameron Partovi [STUDENT] 2 years ago

im bout to eat monkey

0points

#2

Seoul, South Korea - 1900 And Now

Final score:

151points

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Yvonne Bernal 9 years ago

I'd look vastly different too if you took my pic 116 years later.

51points

Vicki Lingle Bickford 9 years ago

Yes. But would you have lots of colors and bright sparkly lights?

3points

Arjan 9 years ago

They even moved mountains :)

3points

Daria B 9 years ago

1900 was quite a long time ago, so this example is not that surprising. Better show the world how the famous Gangnam district looked in the 1960's. The second half of the 20th century was a drastic speed-up of Korean modernisation and economy.

3points

Mackenzie Radzak 5 years ago

i think there using a filter on the old version but am not sure

1point

Garridy Hamilton 8 years ago

Jesus loves you!

1point

Michel Guntern 9 years ago

No neon lights back then.

1point

Marina 5 years ago

Truth is, the 1900 pic seemed like a big "city" for its time as well

0points

kifli sidi 8 years ago

C'est un travail hallucinant

0points

kifli sidi 8 years ago

C'est travail hallucinant

0points

Jp Guenard 9 years ago

Why you can't think an other thing than :" it was better fefore !"

0points

#3

Vilnius, Lithuania - 1900 And Now

Final score:

147points

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Erkan Coban 9 years ago

This one is the best

29points

Tash Stuart 9 years ago

Nice to see they retained the old buildings on one side of river and developed the other side

8points

Michel Guntern 9 years ago

I think they developed where there was space.

3points

JoriLynn Draven 9 years ago

I'm glad to see so much green, and not fall sky scrapers

6points

Rasa Kirvaitytė 9 years ago

Actually Vilnius is the "greenest" town in the world according to the percentage of green in certain area

0points

Michel Guntern 9 years ago

Vilnius looks nice. Must visit the Baltics soon.

2points

Iteoluwa Adewara 5 years ago (edited)

hi boi it is bootiful like

1point

José Valente 9 years ago

It doesn't look bad but if the 1900 pic had been in colour I can't help but finding it the better. The green spaces are spot but the whole "Manhattan-on-the-Vilnia"(if it's the Neris I do beg your pardon but the point is still valid I think) vibe is slightly off-putting

1point

Inga Kersis 9 years ago

My city is the best

1point

Anne Leutsch 9 years ago

Isn't that building in the middle left the same one in the previous picture? If so, good for them! 100 years later and it still looks awesome. :)

1point

Natalija Cukriuk 9 years ago

It is the same building. You cannot see on the picture, but the old town buildings are carefully preserved

3points

Sara Jane 9 years ago

Beautiful

1point

Jenny Wiegand 9 years ago

Cool to see how the trees matured.

1point

#4

Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates - 1970 And Now

Final score:

140points

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Yvonne Bernal 9 years ago

It goes to show what a little oil can do for a fellow . . .

40points

Michel Guntern 9 years ago

And a lot of sand.

2points

Oscar Hanzély 9 years ago

And when the oil is gone, the same dramatic change will happen backwards.

1point

Gina Ellinger 9 years ago

Yeah... DESTROY nature!

1point

Brian Hermann 9 years ago

Even the beach is organized..

7points

ピエロふうでれえ 5 years ago

10 years after my school was released

0points

Iteoluwa Adewara 5 years ago

come on so beautiful

0points

kifli sidi 8 years ago

Wow ils ont fait un travail hallucinant

0points

Maddox Cox 8 years ago

open markets vs buildings

0points

Araz Zv 9 years ago

Well,clearly, they should be so thankful to the revolution in Iran(1979), Iran /Iraq war(1980-88), Golf war(1990),Iraq war (2003) and Secondary sanctions against Iran which had started from 2006..... There is true say: War Is a business!!

0points

José Valente 9 years ago

I'm glad you've left sand here and there (though tamed) and there's some trees and not all the skyscrapers are hedious. Could you please tell Dubai they've been overdoing it for quite a few decades now?

0points

Michael Brunson 9 years ago

A Muslim Miami Beach.

0points

Michael Brunson 9 years ago

A Muslim Miami Beach.

0points

#5

Singapore, Republic Of Singapore – 2000 And Now

Final score:

138points

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Frimpong Poku-Dankwa 9 years ago

Colour makes a lot of difference

21points

Julian Ertelt 9 years ago

I know right! Amazing how far photography has come since the year 2000...

2points

Michel Guntern 9 years ago

Singapore looks different since when I visited.

1point

Anu Philip 9 years ago

Shaddap Alfido Alfido

1point

mary 3 years ago

gurrllllll so gorg

0points

Nick G 9 years ago

Much of the downtown core was there before. It's just the waterfront development that's really changed dramatically in the downtown area. The rest of Singapore has also become much more dense.

0points

Evangeline Valhalla 9 years ago

It looks alien

0points

Puddin Tane 9 years ago

Is that even the same location?

0points

Eugene Smith 2 years ago

Yes it is

0points

Jade Sinaga 9 years ago

Or Indonesian sold the sand cheaply

0points

Evil Smiley 9 years ago

They were still using black & white photography in 2000?

-2points

Kasparas Visockas 9 years ago

They still use it today...

0points

Alfido Alfido 9 years ago

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#6

Tokyo, Japan - 1945 And Now

Final score:

121points

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Robert Bailey 9 years ago

That's impressive. Especially since they've had to rebuild after a dozen Godzilla attacks.

174points

Peter Iorns 9 years ago

You mean the USA attacks?

2points

Den Tweed 5 years ago

Rather the bombs... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bombing_of_Tokyo

1point

Maddox Cox 8 years ago

hilarious and original

1point

Kaeden Anantakrishnan 1 year ago

that didnt happen in real life, it was a movie. rookie mistake

0points

Brenda Mann 9 years ago

Hilarious!!

0points

Koetjoe Berjoeang 9 years ago

Godzilla and doraemon take a part

0points

Julie Klee 9 years ago

The second picture makes me claustrophobic just looking at it.

3points

Puddin Tane 9 years ago

Over crowded much?!

2points

Peter Iorns 9 years ago

The first photo is post 1945 firestorm from the massive incendary attack which had greater loss of life than Hiroshima or Nagasaki atomic attacks. Considered the largest and single most devastating bobing attack in history. Check out this Youtube for a bit o schooling. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZdAvWfVD5Fk

2points

Awkward dog 9 years ago

Wow. Just, wow.

2points

mary 3 years ago

OMG I HAVE BEEN THERE!!! SO GORG GUYS

1point

Mackenzie Radzak 5 years ago

lol

1point

Nick G 9 years ago

World War II had a lot to do with Tokyo in 1945.

1point

Andor Nagy 9 years ago

It's more like Hirosima after the bombing..but that's none of my business

1point

Ben Cook-Feltz 9 years ago

No, it's Tokyo. Pretty much all of Japan was wiped out by 1945, the firebombing raids on Tokyo that March were actually more devastating than Hiroshima. It's just the city wasn't obliterated in a nanosecond, and there weren't all those pesky radiation after-effects.

2points

Mykola Ankin [STUDENT] 2 years ago

i loved taking my little boy here he was about to explode from hapiness

0points

#7

Dubai, United Arab Emirates - 2005 And Now

Final score:

101points

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Hiss like a leaf 9 years ago

Literally a night and day difference!

11points

Michel Guntern 9 years ago

That was quick.

2points

Ariel Carmen 9 years ago

I can't believe how much change can take place in 10 years!

2points

John Nathan Neil Dion 9 years ago

The living testament of the power of money from oil

1point

Evil Smiley 9 years ago

Wow! All those buildings in just one decade!

1point

Nic Woodthorpe-Wright 2 years ago

Can I use these photos for a story I want to create. Where can I get them?

0points

Tetiana Kozhura 9 years ago

I was there in 2006, was definitely more developed than this image.

0points

Jennifer McCoy 9 years ago

I moved there in 2006. This is 2005 in the Mall of the Emirates/Jumeirah area. That is exactly what it looked like in that part of town. The part of SZR closer to the first roundabout had some mini skyscrapers then, but that's off to the right in the picture, and way more developed now. Night and day difference.

3points

Koetjoe Berjoeang 9 years ago

Impressive

0points

Kimberly Librock Grant 9 years ago

I'm not sure what that tall building is for but it looks like Napoleon complex to me.

0points

José Valente 9 years ago

Yes, you covered up the sand in ghastly skyscrapers and way too much paved roads than needed and lit it all up like you had money to burn (oh wait.. you do) and it still ends up as the ugliest city here though to be fair your neighbouring emirate's and national capital is close.

-1point

Uchman 5 years ago

Your opinion makes no difference

0points

#8

Rio De Janeiro, Brazil - 1930 And Now

Final score:

96points

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Robert Bailey 9 years ago

Jesus Christ look at that.

63points

Dora Tonksová 9 years ago

he is

3points

André Anderi 9 years ago

yeah... We know.. It's much worse if you look from the ground.

1point

Marina 5 years ago

i loled, thanks

0points

Dalila Sebastian 9 years ago

He is.. xD

0points

Hiss like a leaf 9 years ago

I was going to say that

0points

Michel Guntern 9 years ago

Flamengo.

1point

Yrwin Ty 9 years ago

One of my top dreams is to make it to Brazil! I hope to achieve that even if it's 9000 miles away from me!

1point

Jensen Morgan 1 year ago

poo poo

0points

Nick G 9 years ago

A case can be made that Rio of 1930 might have been a much nicer place to live in.

0points

José Valente 9 years ago

Still quite beautiful from this height. Spectacular location helps, I won't say "no one will ever be able to change that" but I hope that if a time comes when they can they don't.

0points

Michael Brunson 9 years ago

Now, it is an overgrown cesspit.

0points

Mia Gibbs-White 9 years ago

It's such a big difference

0points

Christina Schrant 9 years ago

Nailed it

0points

Markito Rogerizques 9 years ago

Human civilisation is a cancer on the earth

-2points

Evangeline Valhalla 9 years ago

Said a plant...

0points

#9

Sydney, Australia - 1932 And Now

Final score:

86points

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Virginia Laffitte 9 years ago

LOVE SYDNEY!!

9points

NuClea Bomb 3 years ago

As you should! It's the greatest city in the world!

0points

Debbie Burton 5 years ago (edited)

The bridge was only 9 yrs old then

1point

Michel Guntern 9 years ago

Certainly more boats.

1point

Michel Guntern 9 years ago

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1point

Hugh Cookson 4 years ago

Hideous

0points

Marina 5 years ago

Awesome bridge for almost a hundred yrs ago!

0points

José Valente 9 years ago

Bridge still looking great, Opera House beautiful and just look at all those green bits left. Very impressive!

0points

José Valente 9 years ago

Looking great and still so much green left. Very impressive.

0points

Wombat34 9 years ago

Can see why they made a fuss about building the bridge back then - it was as big as the whole city.

0points

#10

Shenzen, China - 1964 And Now

Final score:

84points

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Alin Sas 9 years ago

Those pictures clearly shows the increase of poluation

9points

Don Cho 9 years ago

or of the urbanization may be..

1point

Emily Tankersley 9 years ago

They clearly show the effort and money put into Special Economic Zones by the Chinese government, really.

1point

Evangeline Valhalla 9 years ago

No they don't.

0points

Silverback Gorrilla 9 years ago

"pollution" băi, neamțule :)

-1point

Michel Guntern 9 years ago

The buildings are towering over the mountains.

1point

Sara Jane 9 years ago

I feel rather sad about the loss of countryside, looks like a lovely city though.

1point

mary 3 years ago

i am prettyyyyy

0points

mary 3 years ago

heyyyyyyyyyyyyy

0points

Hugh Cookson 4 years ago

obscene

0points

Jeanne Dam 5 years ago

And too many people

0points

Corinna S. 5 years ago

I always think it's really sad when city planers decide to erase mountains and replace them with giant buildings.

0points

Tiina Lehtineva 5 years ago

It's like play simcity :D

0points

Marina 5 years ago

this is one of the most dramatic changes in my opinion. From a peaceful village to a huge metropolis.

0points

#11

Fortaleza, Brazil - 1975 And Now

Final score:

82points

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Catherine Hawkins 9 years ago

They ruined it, it was better before

48points

Naomi Holmes 9 years ago

They usually do

5points

Tris f 9 years ago

If you look at the lay of the land they took the picture in the wrong location it what you see on the other side of the curve looks to be where the first picture was taken. The docks for example and the curve over there match the first picture.

3points

Krystal Austin 9 years ago

Most of them were

2points

geraldo costa 9 years ago

THEY are always inclusive : WE :(

1point

teurboa 9 years ago

we have the same last name! spooky

0points

Bea 9 years ago

Much better before.

2points

Yvonne Bernal 9 years ago

I can't help but wonder how this has affected the marine life.

2points

Henriette Roggeman 9 years ago

A lot, actually. Ecosystem changes made fishes be closer to the shore, which attracks sharks that used to feed themselfs of it in the open sea. As a results, sharks are seen often, and the number of shark attacks is far greater then they used to be in that region.

0points

Jeanne Dam 5 years ago

Because we are too many people on Earth

1point

Michel Guntern 9 years ago

Fortaleza had such a homely feel.

1point

mary 3 years ago

heyyyyyy

0points

Tiina Lehtineva 5 years ago

OH MY GOD ... The increase of people here...

0points

José Valente 9 years ago

Oh dear me no no no. That is not progress. Or if it is it looks the opposite of it and looks are the subject here, I thought...

0points

Flávio de Moura 9 years ago

My hometown. The sad part is that all those buildings by the sea block the ocean breeze and make the city very hot.

0points

Anda Ţurcan 9 years ago

Goodbye beach!

0points

#12

Bangkok, Thailand - 1988 And Now

Final score:

68points

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Matthew Dobeck 9 years ago

How odd - what happened?

15points

Thanakorn Satthai 9 years ago

Only. Sky train added.

1point

Maya Berliner 9 years ago

tourism, availability

0points

Yvette De Ruijter 9 years ago

seems like they made a parking garage under the square... see the exit/entrance on the right? And diverted traffic to go around it.

0points

Jeerawatthana Tee 9 years ago

Let's look far beyond the park, you will see how packed of building at present. For the park, we manage to prohibited car entry to the park. Its only allow people walk and bike, parking is at another side. Exist shown is not parking lot but entrance of MRT silom station.

1point

Karin Morris 9 years ago

They put in a rail system and elevated a freeway, leaving less traffic on the ground. This is the only one that looks better than the before shot

1point

Sinem Değer Savran 9 years ago

That park is greener now, congratulations!

1point

maryhadalittlelamb 9 years ago

bangkok is still pretty congested.. maybe it's just different hours

1point

Marco Canibano [STUDENT] 2 years ago

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0points

Marco Canibano [STUDENT] 2 years ago

i love bangkok

0points

Liên Vũ 5 years ago

They keep the trees and there're more space for pedestrians. Nice.

0points

Nishant VK 8 years ago

Everywhere the reverse happened.

0points

Traikhun Nimitangkool 8 years ago

Yay I'm proud that my country made Lumpini Park more green!

0points

#13

Athens, Greece - 1862 And Now

Final score:

68points

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Levan Tediashvili 9 years ago

They just added electricity :D

104points

Karin Morris 9 years ago

hahah there's no way that's 1862, maybe 1962. Come on

4points

Zicca 9 years ago

Wow i almost find this one the most amazing, since it's barely changed!

3points

Alexander Mannsfeld 9 years ago

.. they skipped skyscraping

2points

Arjan 9 years ago

They probably want to keep the Acropolis to be the highest point in the city.

5points

mary 3 years ago

looks soooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo gorg x

0points

mary 3 years ago

gs

0points

Hugh Cookson 4 years ago

Thankfully, not ruined by bloody awful tower blocks !! Well done Greece x

0points

Romen Tsaturian 7 years ago

You kept your style Athens, congrads.

0points

José Valente 9 years ago

Doesn't seem to have changed quite as much as the others which is excellent. Improvements can be seen only much closer to the ground and the city looks more Levantine than I remembered but quite beautiful then AND now. Which kind of goes against the whole point of this entertaining exercise, surely?

0points

Evangeline Valhalla 9 years ago

1862?

0points

#14

Toronto, Canada - 1930 And Now

Final score:

63points

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Yvonne Bernal 9 years ago

Gorgeous skyline.

14points

mary 3 years ago

absolute gorg

0points

Nick G 9 years ago

What was once a very provincial and stuffy city has become a world class city.

1point

José Valente 9 years ago

See? It is possible to look modern and beautiful. Love it!

0points

Brad Miller 9 years ago

What happened to the big building front and centre from the 30's?

0points

Frimpong Poku-Dankwa 9 years ago

Postcard perfect

0points

#15

Berlin, Germany - 1945 And 1990s

Final score:

63points

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Catherine Hawkins 9 years ago

if a picture before the war could be added it would be good

30points

Caro Bedoya 9 years ago

and one after the cold war

4points

Julian Ertelt 9 years ago

Berlin looked a lot more beautiful before the war(s). It was a tragedy in many ways, and the loss of beautiful architecture is one of them albeit not the most tragic.

1point

Outlaw Fugitive 4 years ago

Why?

0points

José Valente 9 years ago

Agree. I'm afraid it probably wasn't because it would show this particular area of the city at its best and that even by the 1990s there were already too many high-rise ugly buildings (nothing against the height..)

0points

Maya Berliner 9 years ago

exactly, that's a different case

0points

Marco Canibano [STUDENT] 2 years ago

i love come here

0points

Nick G 9 years ago

Another city that caused its own destruction with its starting of World War II.

0points

Vicki Lingle Bickford 9 years ago

Why is the "after" picture 26 years old?

0points

Tim Junge 9 years ago

I guess because nothing much changed... But it's confusing why they didn't choose a newer one.

0points

LeFlyingSaucer 9 years ago

Berlin is so ugly...

0points

Márta Fülöp 9 years ago

itt is mint Tokiónál jó lenne háború előtti képeket is mutatni

0points

myplane150 9 years ago

Pretty amazing what our bombers did to Adolf and company.

0points

Isabel Jauss 9 years ago

That was after ww2 so it doesn't really show how it looked intact...

0points

Francisco Gomes 9 years ago

Michael Jackson hung the baby on a window of that white building with a blue roof. Hotel Adlon

0points

Francisco Gomes 9 years ago

The one on the right with the cranw

0points

#16

Jakarta, Indonesia 1960 And Now

Final score:

52points

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Marco Canibano [STUDENT] 2 years ago

he came here images-23-...e2ece.jpeg

5points

Rarindra Prakarsa 9 years ago

I guess the "before" picture was taken after 1960 as the hotel (on the left) was ready to operate in 1962.

4points

Marco Canibano [STUDENT] 2 years ago

i love to come here

1point

Michel Guntern 9 years ago

Is this from another angle?

1point

Milica Perić 9 years ago

This is also about evolution of photography not only cities.

1point

Ida Almqvist 9 years ago

It's taken from a different angle. ..

1point

Ella Hackman 6 years ago

wow they finally turned the fountain on

0points

Uchy Sudhanto 9 years ago

Indonesia with "s" :(

0points

Inga Ko 9 years ago

Super sorry and thanks for noticing! Fixed!

0points

clever_monky 9 years ago

well its indonesia without " z "

-1point

#17

Melbourne, Australia - 1920 And Now

Final score:

48points

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Michel Guntern 9 years ago

Much better restaurants today.

3points

Marco Canibano [STUDENT] 2 years ago

i love monkeys and kangaroos

2points

William Brightwell 9 years ago

Wow! The change is amazing.

1point

mary 3 years ago

OMG I LIVE THERE. It is so gorg btw

0points

Unaffected 5 years ago

Melbourne is absolutely beautiful! Whoever chose this photo didn't do Melbourne any justice!

0points

Sarah Lennie 9 years ago

Ah, she's a beauty.

0points

Saulea Adrian 9 years ago

Neah, very industrial it seems.

-2points

#18

London, The Great Britain - 1920 And Now

Final score:

47points

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Saima Nisbet 9 years ago

Try to be accurate, this is basic geography. There is no "the" before "Great Britain", it's either "Great Britain" or "The United Kingdom", depending on which parts you are including in the reference.

11points

ashl6560 ashl6560 2 years ago

Not the United Kingdom. It's just United Kingdom

0points

Em Urbanek 9 years ago

All the other beautiful cities have lovely water! All I see in this picture is brown water :(

5points

Clare Fox 9 years ago

The Thames is one of the cleanest rivers in the world. It is brown due to various biological organisms.

2points

Clare Fox 9 years ago

THE Great Britain. Wtf???

2points

Velina Dimitrova 9 years ago

The color of the river!

1point

Clare Fox 9 years ago

See my comment above! It is so clean it has trout in it!

1point

Samantha 9 years ago

I don't think I have ever heard it called 'the' Great Briton before? Or is it just me?

1point

Evangeline Valhalla 9 years ago

Britain not Briton.

-2points

mary 3 years ago

jkl

0points

Unaffected 5 years ago

Looks disorganised

0points

Kerry Smith 9 years ago

looks more cohesive before,too many mismatched buildings

0points

Diane Dunn 9 years ago

Isn't there some bridges missing, Jubilee and Millenium, I think they've superimposed the new buildings on an old image.

0points

Geneviève Lépine 9 years ago

not just ANY Great Britain, THE Great Britain! :D

0points

#19

Istanbul, Turkey - 1905 And Now

Final score:

47points

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Arjan 9 years ago

Only the boats got a lot bigger.

33points

Arnoud Lievers 9 years ago

Would have been a shame to if this sight would have been lost in the skyscrapers. Good stuff Turkey and Greece!

2points

Ozan Karakoc 9 years ago

That is probably the only part of the entire city that has been somehow protected. Attached is how they ruined Istanbul in the past years. Unplanned urbanization even got wilder and faster after 2009. One of the most beautiful cities in the world just became a mass, thanks to Erdogan's government. What a shame. istanbul_4...164c43.jpg

2points

mary 3 years ago

Guys this is meeeeeeeeee xxx vip-6305ab...450c40.jpg

1point

mary 3 years ago

Ryella for life!!

1point

Michel Guntern 9 years ago

The changes we can't see are the people on the streets.

1point

kat lia 9 years ago

the recent picture is colored.

1point

Will Justice 1 year ago

reals sjit

0points

Кристина Койчева 9 years ago

only the colors changed....

0points

Fatihatul Muali 9 years ago

Beautiful city

0points

Arnoud Lievers 9 years ago

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0points

#20

New York, Usa - 1962 And Now

Final score:

43points

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Tiny Dynamine 9 years ago

How the smog hangs...

3points

Evangeline Valhalla 9 years ago

Could be fog, near the water and all. Chicago has lots of fog too.

2points

Debbie Burton 5 years ago

and will only get worse

0points

Ayny S 9 years ago

not much industry on Manhattan!

0points

Marco Canibano [STUDENT] 2 years ago

i love new york channels4_...003d0b.jpg

2points

Will Justice 1 year ago

pizza

0points

mary 3 years ago

jj

0points

Mark Evans 5 years ago

Not exactly now since the Freedom Tower was being built in the photo. It's completed now.

0points

Kerry Smith 9 years ago

Looks classier years ago

0points

Danny Snow 9 years ago

Yes is fog

0points

Danny Snow 9 years ago

Is fog

0points

Nick G 9 years ago

In the first photo Manhattan had a middle class, in the second it has become a city of the rich and the poor.

0points

Mala Mira 9 years ago

so what is the difference

0points

#21

Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia - 1920 And Now

Final score:

42points

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Zulhaidi Othman 3 years ago

Some of the worlds tallest building.stand here

0points

Will Justice 1 year ago

n***a sparkeltoes

-1point

#22

Chicago, Usa 1937 And Now

Final score:

41points

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Robert O 9 years ago

Rail yard (?) to park green space, good move

20points

Evangeline Valhalla 9 years ago

Lots of rail yards repurposed. Chicago really is laid out well.

1point

Michel Guntern 9 years ago

Plenty of money for yachts.

1point

maryhadalittlelamb 9 years ago

wow how do they line up those boats?

1point

Tim Douglass 9 years ago

I'd guess they are moored to fixed buoys.

1point

Alexander Marley 9 years ago

thats not chicago now

0points

Wombat34 9 years ago

I like the old one better. It looks wild and exciting. The new one looks like a park.

0points

#23

Shanghai, China - 1987 And Now

Final score:

40points

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Roshan Siddamsetty 9 years ago

That escalated quickly!

20points

Tiina Lehtineva 5 years ago

This is so perfect reaction, that I don't even bother with mine. :D

0points

Michel Guntern 9 years ago

The above picture is how I remember the view from The Bund.

1point

Stevan Harrell 4 years ago

Dear Inga, if you're reading this, could I ask you whether I could get permission to use this pair of photos in an academic book? Please reply to Steve: stevehar@uw.edu

0points

Kim Pries 9 years ago

And the naked guy on the phone...

0points

#24

Los Angeles, Usa - 1940 And Now

Final score:

40points

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Daniel Bailey 9 years ago

The 1940s photo of Los Angeles appears to be a view of the Fairfax district with the Park La Brea residential complex (built in 1944) highlighted in the center. And the "Now" photo is of downtown Los Angeles, several miles away, with several of the more recent buildings missing. The Now photo is at least 5 years old.

8points

Cagla Altintas 9 years ago

Either the header or the date on the picture is wrong.

2points

Evangeline Valhalla 9 years ago

Hmmm. Why?

0points

Mm L 7 years ago

The before photo is not downtown Los Angeles.

1point

Michel Guntern 9 years ago

Probably one of the better pictures of Los Angeles.

1point

#25

San Francisco, USA - 1906 And Now

Final score:

32points

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maryhadalittlelamb 9 years ago

i love the before photo!

1point

noneedtoknow 9 years ago

That's a photo taken after the massive earthquake that destroyed most of the city.

2points

curt mayer 4 years ago

i wish these pictures worked harder at matching the scale and direction. the above photo is SW, straight down market street, starting from the ferry building. the 'now' picture is kinda from alcatraz looking south over coit tower.

0points

#26

San Francisco, Usa - 1947 And Now

Final score:

32points

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Yrwin Ty 9 years ago

Another city I absolutely loved when I went there!

2points

Marco Cole 4 years ago

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0points

#27

Dubai, United Arab Emirates 2005 And Now

Final score:

29points

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Anusha Shetty 9 years ago

Every other place has changed over a period of 40, 50, 100 years... But UAE changed drastically over a period of 10 years!

18points

Mala Mira 9 years ago

and imagine what will happen in other next 10 years

0points

curt mayer 4 years ago

if only those buildings had water and sewage hookups. many don't. it's a very expensive facade.

0points

Nick G 9 years ago

Are all these office towers really occupied?

0points

Evangeline Valhalla 9 years ago

Too much

0points

Alaina Wilkins 9 years ago

That's where all the "missing" trillions of US$ went.........

0points

#28

Long Beach, Usa - 1953 And Now

Final score:

29points

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Evil Smiley 9 years ago

The before was much better. It looks so crowded now.

10points

Michel Guntern 9 years ago

What a marina.

1point

#29

Macau, China - 1964 And Now

Final score:

22points

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Simone Fjellø Mortensen 9 years ago

This really change for the worse !

36points

Ricardo Carvalho 9 years ago

I was going to say exactly the same thing!

1point

Michel Guntern 9 years ago

Roll the clock back on this one.

1point

mary 3 years ago

so ewww after

0points

Unaffected 5 years ago

I liked it before, it's just a concrete jungle now

0points

Rose Black 9 years ago

In Chicago has same pic :D

0points

Milica Perić 9 years ago

It was better before!

0points

Hicham Elothemany 9 years ago

Used to be better

0points

Francisco Gomes 9 years ago

In the first picture it was Portuguese territory whereas in the second it's Chinese

0points

Jean-Marc Dos Santos 9 years ago

Welcome to the Portuguese influence ....

0points

Robert O 9 years ago

Not so pretty, I bet

0points

#30

Hong Kong, China - 1980 And Now

Final score:

21points

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Javka 9 years ago

You should show Warsaw in 1945 and now :)

1point

Outlaw Fugitive 4 years ago

No one cafes about the poles

0points

Lorenzo Gentilini 9 years ago

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Julie Bereza 9 years ago

Unfortunately it is legally China since 1997

10points

Giang đặng 9 years ago

not China but part of China.

4points

Saima Nisbet 9 years ago

Yes it is, since we handed it back to China it is no longer it's own country.

2points

Yalın Kılıç 9 years ago

It IS China =) cheers

-1point

#31

Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia - 1920 And Present

Final score:

21points

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MiLe Vo 9 years ago

Saigon, Vietnam, 1960 and now Untitled-1...48de7e.jpg

1point

Zulhaidi Othman 3 years ago

Traffic problem all the way

0points

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