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Seoul
New York
L.A
London
Dubai
Berlin
Shenzen, China
Sydney, Australia
Singapore
Athens
Rio
Tokyo, Japan
Panama City
Las Vegas
Shanghai
fatbluegiraffe
The L.A. photo pair is pretty misleading. The 1940 photo is Park La Brea (which is still there), and the Now photo is Downtown.
SternoTesticularLigament
Dubai and Shenzen... wow
DigiT00l
Tbf for Tokyo, America had just stopped fire bombing the place the same year
doroole3
OMG!Is this our future(the picture of Detroit)?
Erutanmi
Wow, Dubai in 16 years (these are old pictures.).
BoblbLawsLawBlg
Two very different parts of LA. Then is of the Park La Brea apartments in mid-city (still there, still shitty). Now is Downtown.
IrwinFireson
TIL cities are a lot more colorful now
KentuckyFriedChildren
Color wasn’t invented until the 1960’s
OncoByte
The gap for Shanghai is less than 30 years and the "now" pic is out of date. There is already a taller building there than those pictured.
bmdangelo
How about show the actual downtown of Detroit like all the other cities in this post?
AdOculos
darthepyon
The hell is Chicago at
735824
Canada.
InnocentValley
Berlin and Hiroshima aren't really fair, they just got burnt down in a short period of time so they had to start over, others simply grew.
HockeyFighter69
@ilookfuckingcool
tarquinious
Humans really are a blight on this planet aren't we
maliciousGman
I feel that's selling us a bit short.
CasinoV
In one way yes. In another, everything on the earth is doomed regardless of what humans do.
greach
What does any living thing do to kill off a virus? It cooks it with heat (fever)
readgardentravelcook
We are doomed! There are too many fricken’ people!
IllegalDuckling
Berlin "now"
1fromneptune
As a Detroit citizen
Hizoran
Anyone else annoyed that the photos aren't all taken from the same perspective?
ohmegatron
Nope. But if you want to do it better, you're welcome to try. Otherwise quit whining.
snakeoilsalesman
Not the easiest thing to do with aerial photos
Chkari
735824
Poor baby.
insufficientimagination
I'm over it though
Nahmy
Yes, im choking on my own rage.
Lulabel73
AxelPale
And aren't all taken at the same time of the day!
discombobulatedd
Detroit is not a wasteland... killed all credibility of the whole post
GriffinMann41
It's weird to realize that something like 97% of Tokyo was fucking flattened by the firebomings.
AllenJordan0323
Go home Detroit, you drunk.
rlc34
need a better pic of detroit. cmon...
Bloodsense
Not pictured in Dubai: all the fucking slaves they used to build it.
rianocerous
I love stuff like this
FirpoES
It tickled your pickle?
Realborisboef
It sure tickled mine
piratejimthedagger
So what year was colour invented?
Nahmy
Nineteen eighty blue
SuperNonHuman
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_photography Color Pics 1855 but not everybody had the luxury of it till the 1970’s.
AndrewBuggy
Some cities are reluctant to change. https://imgur.com/Fa9Legc
TezuNii
Hey, at least give them credit for adding a couple of trees
735824
They got rid of the clouds!
UrbanNorthern
#9 way back in those black and white days of 2000
z0MgIrt3hSt0N3CRv5h3rFr0mt3x4S
Looks like a render in the 2nd image as well.
CumsInPies
Singapore didn't get color until a couple years ago it's amazing what they've done with it in such a short time
orbitn
I've noticed that as i get older, color has been fading from photos taken in the 90s and early '00s.
SkullyItsMe
The quick build city kit ... Just add oil
chloramphenicolderivative
Singapore doesn't have oil or really any natural resources for that matter.
SkullyItsMe
#5
teakdecks
Dubai has two growth spurts- the first was oil but the bit in 5 was due to tourism as a way to diversify from the oil which was running out!
h0tdoglatte
i think the cancer is terminal
Realborisboef
A shame a lot people will be offended by this comment, good one.
graymatterWiz
Maybe but the universe is vast and there is no “save as” button.
StarmineRendezvous
YeahWellYouKnowThatsJustLikeYourOpinionMan
It's like a wart
Username1884
So Athens got electricity between then and now. Good for them.
ReaLifeSmeagol
They can only afford to turn it on twice a month though.
ImNotAnOrange
they still seem rather enamored with the idea of the light bulb
cinderspires
why not when they ripped off Germany by creating billions in debt
sickiwicki
U mean they ripped off the entire EU
AnusReadyToBeRavaged
Grexit?
KentuckyFriedChildren
lol ok
kolao3fyllo
fubvr
Time for a history lesson. In 1942, Nazi Germany forced the Greek national bank to pay out an interest-free loan to the tune of 476 million.
cinderspires
source?
tx3x
here's one: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/feb/10/germany-greece-second-world-war-reparations
tx3x
here's another: https://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/greek-study-provides-evidence-of-forced-loans-to-nazis-a-1024762.html
fubvr
The Nazis used the money to finance the the "cost of occupation" of Greece as well as military operations. The loan was never repaid.
PandaLord200
Yo Dubai needs to calm the fuck down
735824
Make that the planet.
melodramaticbat
Lived there 97 - 2007, go back there sometimes. Was crazy seeing a cluster of small desert towns turn into middle-eastern Manhattan.
Filanwizard
Dubai is pretty much Las Vegas with the cool stuff removed. A desert city that exists purely on the hubris that we could do it.
SuperNonHuman
As I mentioned, they got money to burn. Literally. Also 70% of those skyscrapers are empty. Smh
Goddamnitoldman
As someone who lived in one of those skyscrapers that's false. There are an insane amount of people living in the marina.
SuperNonHuman
And that’s from Khaleej Times. I’ve lived in Dubai as well. Born there.
SuperNonHuman
https://m.khaleejtimes.com/business/local/around-20-of-dubai-s-prime-properties-stand-empty Guess my stats were of 2009. This is more recent
Goddamnitoldman
That seems more accurate. It might be even less now as those stats we're from 2015. When I left there in Nov there was still kind of a ....
Goddamnitoldman
...shortage of apartments in the Marina. Most places that we're put up for rent were taken within a few days.
SuperNonHuman
True. I hope so. Still insanely expensive but if you have good Job, it covers most of it. Miss that place.
thisiswhyicanthaveanythingnice
The people that built that are pretty much slaves.
snakeoilsalesman
Very different from every American city. *Awaits the screams of eagles.*
ohmegatron
They're free to leave whenever they want, but the can't afford to go anywhere and they're in the middle of the dessert.
CarpetShark
Sounds like slavery with extra steps
thisiswhyicanthaveanythingnice
And you get to die a gruesome death because there are few safety precautions.
CirB
Actually, wasn't there a scandal about how the employers confiscated the passports of their employees? Thus making them unable to leave.
ohmegatron
Oh yeah I forgot about that part.
Iamabananaaa
Hiroshima and Detroit are probably the best
redstick
Isn't diversity beautiful?
KoRplussomeletters
I guess it's the camera angle, but I thought the Tokyo picture was Hiroshima, for obvious reasons.
HQDefault
LAGomez
No, you.
degenerator
Wait till you see SF in 2050: completely encrusted with feces.
ElMeanYo
The San Francisco Treat
UglyHorribleGrouchyOldMan
New, cheap, and readily available paint filler!
AzizLiiiiiiiiiiight
They should have included Miami probably the biggest difference in the shortest amount of time .. unrecognizable from even the 90s
PsychoDK
Dubai would like a word with you :P
Limpinlostboy
That and Detroit are something else.
ttck
Every major city has "a" skyline. They have a lot of skylines.
Nestor1312
No they are not. Detroits downtown has been steadily growing which that picture left out. Its almost as if it wasn't an accurate representat
rolemodelfailure
Yea it’s frustrating that this shit meme keeps getting promoted when downtown is fucking awesome.
AdOculos
Was going to post something similar if nobody else had. Thanks for beating me to it! Detroit isn't perfect but ppl love to misrepresent it.
AdOculos
It's come a long way in the nine years I've known it.
Nestor1312
tion. Don't get me wrong, there still is a lot of blight in the city but it has been steadily improving for a while now.
ten80pee
True. Shit like this frustrates me. Inaccurate representations of Detroit are very irritating lol.
Cruxador
"for a while now" but the picture is 2012.
Nestor1312
Since before 2012. And like I said blight is still an issue in detroit but its downtown does not look like that picture. You actual read
Nestor1312
what we wrote? Or you just being a dick for dicks sake?