Your city's worst district(s) / area(s) ?

[Svartmetall]

Originally Posted by city_thing

Svartmetall, did you ever make it to King's Cross when you were in Sydney? I always go there when I'm in town thinking it'll be really trendy with lots of great bars and restaurants. But when I get there I realise it's full of brothels, street walkers and addicts. Gentrification hasn't moved the underbelly out of the suburb just yet evidently, which is sad because some of the houses and apartment buildings are brilliant examples of Edwardian, Victorian and Art Deco. It's also prime real estate, being right on the harbour and only one CityRail stop away from the main financial area

Yes I did, I actually stayed in a hostel in Kings Cross. They marketed themselves as "Potts Point" and it was just on the edge of Macleay Street (The Blue Parrot).

Kings X isn't the worst area in Sydney by a long way though. You've got the traditional areas such as "The Block" in Redfern (as well as most of Redfern and Waterloo it seems), Macquarie Fields, Bankstown, Punchbowl, Lakemba, Cabramatta (though this has improved a lot), and Blacktown. Those areas really give the impression of deprevation which Kings Cross doesn't give half as much.

[city_thing]

We try not to mention The Block here in Australia

It probably is Australia's only real ghetto.

Cabramatta is OK these days, Lakemba's not too bad, it just gets a bad name from the media highlighting its enormous Muslim community, the same goes for Bankstown. The northern part of Redfern is actually quite trendy now, it's starting to be gentrified. I can't say anything for Waterloo, I've only passed through in a cab on my way to and from Kingsford-Smith Airport.

Redfern >



The Block>







Compared to other places in the US, Europe etc. -it's nothing. But for Australia's it's a ghetto and a very sensitive issue.

[karim aboussir]

by the way tourists are very very safe in casablanca , most victims of homicides in casablanca are drug dealers gang members illegal immigrants killing each other some are domestics robberies arguments among friends last 20 years only 7 tourists were killed

[Kwame]

Originally Posted by Wuppeltje

The Netherlands is my Urban Planning paradise....

[doogerz]

In Edmonton, the bad areas are spread out throughout the city but in terms of overall decay/urban wasteland, the worse areas are along 118th Avenue (between 97th street & victoria trail). 97th street between Jasper Ave & 111th Avenue (Chinatown District). Fort Rd between the Yellowhead Trail & 137th Avenue (Belvedere).

The city has tried to improve the streetscape of these areas but they are still hangouts for transients and drug heads

118th Avenue Photos:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/lucasbridge/2319616523/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/markjms/2319440043/

[Ali_B]

The worst parts of Brussels are Molenbeek, the Brussels-south area and the Brussels-north area. In general inner areas are improving by gentrification, although the West/southwest area stays worse. The north area is also improving. The east area is kinda chique...

Some pictures of the ghetto-areas of Brussels, these areas are next to the city-center
Metro-entrancein the Ribaucourt Street in Molenbeek (Brussels-west)


One of the worst area's in Brussels: Cureghem in Brussels-southwest

[JPBrazil]

Can anyone post Paris' worst areas?

[Obscene]

Originally Posted by JPBrazil

Can anyone post Paris' worst areas?

Stains...Seine-Saint-Denis, Paris
Population : 35,000 (?)
Murders last (?) year: 24

[Shukie]

I'm thinking any of the banlieues that were involved in the 2005 riots would be a good guess.

[Wuppeltje]

Originally Posted by Crash2010

The Netherlands is my Urban Planning paradise....

Well in Amsterdam they made a lot of great urban plans. Many plans were worked out to the highest standard, but not all worked out good. Many people believed in the "Bijlmermeer", which is build totally on the ideas of CIAM and Le Corbusier. But these idea's have flaws. They are eventually changing the whole basic concept there, because it simply doesn't work.

[miamipaintball]

this was a housing project in Miami ( liberty city) they tore it down like 2 years ago.





this is a pic from overtown, Miami's poorest neighborhood.



i would post more but cant find any on the net.

[WANCH]

Any pics of Clichy Su Bois where the riot started?

[trainrover]

Your city's worst district(s) / area(s) ?

This just has to be the daftest question launched around these boards...somet'in' 'bout it smells awfully honky-tonk . . .

[TohrAlkimista]

Damn, the worst districts of North America are really scary.

[Ribsduff]

Clichy Sous Bois























La Courneuve:

[nano84]

i don't know what to say ...
my hometown is baghdad !
so there're alot of "worst" districts !!
i think the worst is Al Thawra district...

[Stifler]

At a national level, Las 3000 Viviendas in Seville is considered the worst in Spain.

It's a district of 50,000 inh. (half of them gypsies) where the police doesn't dare to enter.




(Yeah, they have donkeys in the apartments)

[krzysiu_]

Orunia Dolna, an old district of Gdańsk (north Poland). In the 80's and 90's one of the most dangerous district in Poland and probably in whole Europe. Some photos of Orunia Dolna can be found on this forum:

http://www.forum.dawnygdansk.pl/viewtopic.php?t=1406

[Azia]

Originally Posted by Stifler

At a national level, Las 3000 Viviendas in Seville is considered the worst in Spain.

It's a district of 50,000 inh. (half of them gypsies) where the police doesn't dare to enter.




(Yeah, they have donkeys in the apartments)

where in sevila is this locatedet it looks very horrobile , are the viedos much actually

[Stifler]

Originally Posted by Azia

where in sevila is this locatedet it looks very horrobile , are the viedos much actually

In the SE part of the city, next to an industrial area. Of course far from the city center, although Betis stadium is pretty close.

Never been there (obviously) but it has to be one of the worst (if not the worst) in Western Europe. Such a pity for a beautiful city like Seville.