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Old Posted Dec 5, 2009, 5:14 AM
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12 unrecognizable before and after views of cities

http://www.oobject.com/category/12-u...ews-of-cities/

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Despite the appearance of permanence that historic buildings create, many if not most of the worlds famous cities have been almost entirely destroyed either by war, property speculation or Ayn Randian architects. They have been rebuilt, either as replicas (Warsaw) or even in the image of the culture that destroyed them (Hiroshima). Here are images where either we or others have matched up locations for incredible before and after shots.


1. Kabul

Paghman Gardens, Kabul Afghanistan taken 40 years apart. We imagine that Afghanistan was always a barren and oppressive tribal culture, but as this image shows, war after war has turned back the clock.


2. Detroit
Perhaps America’s capitalism, red in tooth and claw will reveal what happens when a failed city gives itself back to nature, not in the space of 500 years, as Rome did, but within a lifetime.
Other cities pictured:

3. NYC (Manhattan)
4. Hiroshima
5. Dubai
6. San Francisco
7. Dresden
8. Warsaw
9. London
10. Las Vegas
11. Paris
12. Shenzhen



Do any of you have your own before/after pictures?
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