It's the two kiddos with huge smiles for me 😞

I remember the day the wall came down. I was only 9yo but I was starting to pay attention to the world. That was the biggest thing since Challenger.

I would love to understand the why of this - how come this happens, not just in Bangladesh, but plenty of other places in SE Asia. Does anyone know? If nothing else, that rubbish could be burnt to generate heat and then electricity. "Where there's muck, there's brass" and all that.

Kowloon Walled City was a fascinating place. A population of 1.3MILLION per square Kilometer. It was a lawless slum that must have been absolute hell to live in. the whole place was established as part of the same treaty that Established Hong Kong as a British protectorate. Short version, Kowloon was a weird loophole that neither side owned but it became a major conduit to move goods in and out of Communist China for about 50 years.

I just bought a cat toy with this configuration.

She who must not be named

She who must not be named

Community Member • points

posts

comments

upvotes

FollowUnfollow

Premium

Premium user. Get details.

I'm certainly not 'jalous' of those who live there

Initially I thought this was a landfill or rubbish dump.

LOL! Excellent caption. But it's colorful, clean, and I can't read a word of Japanese so I don't care what it says.

And the waiting lists for some of those apartments are mind-boggling.

Ants...I see an ant colony

Dredd Peachtrees vibes

USA, the nicest third world country.

This is depressing.

WTF get a transportation expert in there.

When I read "Hyesan" it reminds me the excellent book "The girl with seven names", written by Hyeon Seo Lee, who ran away from Hyesan. It's worth reading it.

And most people still think that the pyramids are in the middle of the desert :-D

The picture itself is incredibly striking, though.

What always gets me about chinas infrastructure is - how do you get your furniture up there easily? What if you have stuff that won’t fit in the entry way? Do the crane it up?

There is no way to walk anywhere in this place.

This makes me think of all the people with breathing difficulties

Particularly terrifying given that the area is prone to earthquakes and sand loves to get all unstable when the ground gets shaky...

Everyone's driving on the wrong side of the road, that's ya problem right there

It's 'Guiyang' not 'Guyana'

The trees will remain when the concrete has all crumbled.

Weird. No, not the image itself. But the fact there's no comments. If this was located in Anywhere, USA, there' would already be a dozen "America bad" comments, like several of the pics above.

AnnaB

AnnaB

Community Member • points

posts

comments

upvotes

FollowUnfollow

Premium

Premium user. Get details.

Could use some power washing

People, buy glasses. Or pay attention. Yoz seriously overlook all these burnt out and damaged buildings?

The roofs people, the roofs, where are they

So grey 😢

That's not the worst part of Kensington.

Don't know about the quality of life and but it does look kinda rad.

It's Art. Would you complain about landscape paintings as well?

Cañada, not Canada. It's La Cañada Real, Madrid. No relationship with the soccer team.

Wow

This comment is hidden. Click here to view.

This is one of those cases of "I'll invent a number to make it sound deadly." Actually, although the area does generate illegal levels of pollution, government data has found that there is NOT an elevated cancer rate.

How the heck can this mass of black spaghetti work ?

Yes. Quite the shame actually that Genoa is basically cut pff from the sea by the SS1.

Nuclear is a safe and clean source of energy

You know when you watch a time travel movie where they come back from the Middle Ages and not much has changed in merry old England too much 😂 imagine the same movie premise but in China, pot time traveller would have a fit

Peak brutalism but not urban hell.

When the chicken restaurant goes in across from Kramer's apartment.

I remember Diana 😂

Pretty cool water tho

That's hardly inspiring for a school. Or maybe it would make you work harder so you can get the hell out .

This is the USA. I don't know which particular city, but in a way that is irrelevant....because when Eisenhower put the highway system in this happened to many cities. For some reason it just didn't occur to those early highway planners that they could swerve around cities. So many communities were cut in half, creating defacto areas with less access to cultural assets like libraries, parks, government offices, etc...........To be clear, the highways were put in to facilitate the rapid movement of large scale military equipment and personnel. Making car travel easier was of secondary concern.

I read the original post. Apparently: "Egypt, Cairo (Shafi'i cemeteries in old Egypt to be precise), Halim Pasha Dome." Why? For crying out loud, why do this?

How is this a solution to anything? If it's supposed to stop squatters, they'll find somewhere else. A case of "if it's not on my patch, I don't have to do anything about it".

While the building is not going to win any awards for beauty, this is a picture of the of the corner of the rooftop carpark at the back of it. The street itself that this building is on is mostly lined with stone Georgian and Victorian buildings, and quite nice

AnnaB

AnnaB

Community Member • points

posts

comments

upvotes

FollowUnfollow

Premium

Premium user. Get details.

Ctrl C > Ctrl P

Toronto is much the same. The encampments get cleared periodically, which does nothing but create an endless cycle of movement from park to street corner to parkette to ravine to vacant lot and back again. Our three levels of government are unable (or rather unwilling) to cooperate on funding effective supports for unhoused people.

In 1949, the government of Los Angeles siezed hundreds of homes here by condemning them and declaring eminent domain, but not for a baseball stadium, but for a newer, government-controlled housing project. Pretty much everyone except the statist mayor hated the idea. After he was thrown out of office, nobody wanted to build the housing project that the neighborhood was destroyed in order to create. The stadium was built ten years later, after paying fair-market prices to buy out some additional homes.

Destroyed in 1994.

Looks like a border city in northern Mexico maybe CD. Juarez.