64 Photos That Show What Happens When Cities Lose Their Soul

Downtown Eastside, Vancouver, Canada.

Hong Kong in the '60's ... and "today"

Tatooine in it's cubistic era.

All of these are not pretty. But everyone needs a home, no matter where

Peace prayer tower Osaka

Gordian knot.

That's just laziness....

Shibam, a historic walled city in Yemen, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, known as the "Manhattan of the Middle East". The mud brick high rises are up to 11 storeys high, with some dating back to the 16th Century, and were built to protect the residents from Bedouin attacks and floods.

A housing development on the outskirts of Las Vegas.

Just hoping one of them would walk off the trail....

The boundary between Manaus, Brasil and the Amazon rainforest.

Beautiful? I think not

"things got outta hand real fast"

This is a digital artwork, not an actual building.

I dunno, this.... How far off was the shot taken?.......... NVM did some learning, still doesn't make sense to me why it's here but okay.

Tokyo, Japan with Mount Fuji in the background and the Sumida River in the foreground.

Al-Azhur Park, a 30 hectare park in Historic Cairo, Egypt. The site of a former rubbish dump, the park was created in 2005 as a "green lung" for the city. The project was undertaken by the Aga Khan Trust for Culture to catalyse urban renewal.

The billboard is a cartoon character called "Misha" ... saying We live like a fairy tale

Loads of people would jump at the chance to live there.

The Shemyakin and Ovchinnikov Institute of Bio-Organic Chemistry in Moscow. It's layout was specifically designed to resemble a DNA double helix when viewed from above.

That's Tokyo viewed from above, with the Tokyo Skytree in the foreground, the Sumida River in the centre and Mount Fuji in the background. The colour is produced using a sepia filter. The original photo by Yuichi Yokota features the actual, natural blue and concrete city sprawl under a blue sky. It is not Mumbai.

Vivarium vibes all the way.

Ṣ̌iauliai, Lithuania.

Dang.... Couldn't some of y'all split the bill?

Campus de l'Innovation et du Sport, Beirut, Lebanon. While this hasn't been directly hit by current Israeli military attacks, the surrounding university campus has sustained damage.

Oooh an American crackheads dream alley. All the copper they could dream of.......... Uh nvm

The Shuvalovsky residential complex in St. Petersburg, Russia, photographed during a foggy winter sunrise.

bangladesh

Alrighty!

Hey! Hey! The trees got bigger!....... Or did they?!?!

An AI of image Chernobyl

Moscow

Paris