[christos-greece]

Changes of Dubai are really awesome

 

[World 2 World]

KUALA LUMPUR

1880

1970-80

1993

2008

by razuryza

 

[Mr Bricks]

It´s sad to see so much of the old architecture in Chinese cities have been torned down.

I think these are pretty cool. London 70s, London 2006(?). This view will change even more over the next 4 years.

 

[greenlay]

Lanzhou,a small undeveloped city in northwest china,also witnessed a tremendous change.The sad thing is it lost its unique city wall along the Yellow River.
Lanzhou in 1930s

Lanzhou in 1980s

Lanzhou today

 

[DAKARCITY]

DAKAR SENEGAL

1900-1930
Place de l independance

Now....
place de l independance today

Everywhere old meet new but we need now a real boom like asian cities to have more highrise....

 

[ThEoUtCaSt]

London

From Daily Telegraph

Canary Wharf 1997

And just a little over 10yrs later!!!!!!

From Foshie @ Flicr

Canary Wharf 2008

 

[MakaWella]

Wow a big change in Canary wharf..

Amsterdam is the same as 50 years back..

a historic city always..

 

[Nadini]

Beirut - Lebanon
Before - 1974
Courtesy of Lebscape

After - 2008
Courtesy of Solidere


Before - 1999

After - 2008
Courtesy of Solidere




Corniche Ain El Mreisseh
Before - 1974
courtesy of Lebscape

After - 2008
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[xlchris]

Those Amsterdam pictures are awesome! Amsterdam already has a lot of water, but it used to have a lot more! Never knew that!

 

[elbart089]

Kuala Lumpur had an extreme makeover @[email protected]

 

[BrickellResidence]

somebody should put the miami skyline change of 2004-2008

 

[christos-greece]

Athens, Greece
Athens city center (1860):

from SSC forumer GrigorisSocratis
Today:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/wallyg/135116633/

 

[the spliff fairy]

Shenzhen fishing village 1985, population 25,000

Shenzhen 2007, population 14 million, the fastest urban growth ever:

BY 1996 there were 237 buildings of more than 18 stories

There are currently 347 highrises now, (of which 34 are over 150m, and a further 14 skyscrapers are under construction)

The city is not just highrises, in its latest makeover it now has huge showpiece projects (from the Museum of
Contemporary Art to the new Stock Exchange), sports stadia, parks, a metro, media centres, universities, museums, galleries,
vast public libraries, exhibition centres, upmarket ubermalls, theme parks, even artist colonised warehouse districts, alongside
urban tribes, myriad gay bars, minorities districts, student villages, and edgy fashionable neighbourhoods. Almost overnight it has
morphed from a gritty 90s boomtown to a tertiary city.

Public Library

artist's warehouse district

Museum of Contemporary Art

City Hall

Festivals

Art District

Fairy Lake park

It runs design festivals, marathons, art auctions, major sporting events, fashion shows, architectural biennales and is vying with
Beijing as the art capital of China. Its the richest, densest, fastest growing city in China, but also suffers from crime, a large sex
industry and huge rich-poor discrepancy.

 

[BrickellResidence]

^^^ wow that is impressive^^^^^

 

[briker]

^^ Damn, That city hall roof is HUGE!

 

[xlchris]

I wasn't looking for this, but I just found it on google

 

[Paws]

those old pictures of New York are beautiful, I thought NY was amazing as it is now but somehow it looks even more impressive as it was back then

 

[christos-greece]

Those pics ^^ are really amazing - old ones-

 

[moguai]

not only the skyline is changing,night view style is changing too

i don't thing so....

 

[bobbycuzin]

midtown manhattan, 1931

midtown manhattan, 2003