"all european cities look the same"
"all the buildings are so short"
"too historic and not modern enuff"
the good sis london alone:
the pictures dont do it justice. + growing and evolving at the speed of light, london's ever-changing landscape remains one of the greatest modern skylines in the world. why? post ur faves
New York, Hong Kong and London are three mainstream cities with the best skylines for me. What I love about London is that it's still growing and only getting better year by year.
Because the Europeans didn't bulldozer the past and replace it with steel and concrete in grid layout. If you have seen 1 American city of steel and concrete in grid layout, you have seen them all.
Although in Paris they did bulldozer the old small streets/hoods 100+ years ago (Haussmann's renovation is documented in the early days of photography) to make wide boulevards.
In London they didn't bulldozer the past, that's why the Inner Ring Road is a bunch of small streets and an infinite amount of turns.