Cities with already nice skylines in the 50s? - Page 2

gabrielbabb · September 18th, 2011, 02:46 AM

Umm this is Mexico City, not Buenos Aires, the roundabout of Cristopher Columbus monument in Paseo de la Reforma Avenue

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Originally Posted by snowland

sebvill · September 20th, 2011, 03:20 PM

Lima, Peru

50's

bayviews · September 24th, 2011, 06:27 AM

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Originally Posted by AcesHigh

São Paulo, 1957

Fantastic pics of Sao Paulo & other Brazilian skylines. Belo Horizante had a great skyline too!

Brazil, "The Country of the Future", was very much on the cutting of "modern" architecture in the forties & fifties.

Back then, there weren't any skylines to speak in Europe, Asia, etc.

OtAkAw · September 26th, 2011, 12:22 PM

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Originally Posted by AcesHigh

it seems Manila didnt have any highrises...

Yep, she had mostly mid-rises. Manila had an infant skyline in the 50's

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Makati, was still growing:

chikobestia · September 27th, 2011, 04:04 AM

De donde será esta última foto?

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Originally Posted by sebvill

Lima, Peru

sebvill · September 27th, 2011, 10:57 AM

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Originally Posted by chikobestia

De donde será esta última foto?

This is that intersection nowdays. The small yellow building in the bottom right corner is the one that appears in the old picture.

The small yellow building with the Coca Cola publicity on top.

gabrielbabb · October 5th, 2011, 06:13 AM

MEXICO CITY

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Mehome · October 5th, 2011, 08:31 PM

JAKARTA, INDONESIA

Dimethyltryptamine · October 6th, 2011, 05:02 AM

Melbourne, Australia

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Melbourne CBD (1950) by werdan, on Flickr

***i_am_hydrogen*** · October 6th, 2011, 07:19 PM

Chicago (unknown source)

WeimieLvr · October 6th, 2011, 10:45 PM

Atlanta 1952
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http://www.flickr.com/photos/1005472...n/photostream/

elliOth_agS · October 9th, 2011, 04:29 AM

I think that the 40's, 50's & early 60's was the most elegant and beautiful decades in world... all cities in those decades were Really beutiful!

robk1982 · October 10th, 2011, 03:03 AM

IMO, São Paulo's skyline looked better in 1957 than it does today (and, yes, I have been there). It actually had some shape to it.

alheaine · October 13th, 2011, 11:03 PM

Manila highrises started to sprung up from 60s-70s?

Nis_ · October 15th, 2011, 10:31 AM

COnstruction of New Belgrade in 50s and 60's

In early 50s it was just a mudd and 10-20 years later it was whole new city

Dralcoffin · October 15th, 2011, 10:39 PM

Chicago, 1941 (Charles Cushman Collection, Indiana University)

1946 (same source)

yako · October 18th, 2011, 01:04 PM

Stockholm;

1914

1940-49

Twin towers, viking-style

1961

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Mr. Uncut · October 19th, 2011, 06:09 PM

Dallas 1950s

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1940s

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Dralcoffin · October 20th, 2011, 02:33 AM

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Dallas 1950s

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1940s

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Dallas was one of the few, if not the only, major US skyline that grew during the 1940s and early 50s.

kam4rade · October 20th, 2011, 05:18 AM

MEXICO CITY 40s and 50s

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