Ugliest and Most Beautiful Cities?

[DJNotNice]

Going from the cities I've been to:
Prettiest: Prague, without a doubt. I liked Dublin, Rome, and Salzburg, too.
Ugliest: Naples, San Antonio (minus the river walk). I second Perfection's opinion that Venice is actually kind of ugly, don't really understand the allure with it.

 

[aronnax]

Would anyone like some American Dream???

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[NovaKart]

When you've been in Turkey for awhile American suburbia looks like heaven.

Where I live, a concrete jungle.

Actually American suburbia in my opinion doesn't look so monolithic on the ground, you notice a lot of differences between houses, but sure from up above they look like monopoly houses.

 

[Lone Wolf]

I second Prague as one of the most beautiful cities. I was there twice. Winter Prague had a more depressing, Kafkian feel for me.

Ekaterinburg has some nice places, but overall, it's not a city that is pleasing to the eye. The title of the most prominent aesthetically offensive building should belong to a recently built fat skyscraper monstrosity that defaces the center:

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Ugly from all views.

 

[Cashie]

Would anyone like some American Dream???

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I'd like SUVs with that.

 

[mitsho]

Beautiful: Berlin (in a "Industrial Chic" kinda way, and if you look further than architecture), Amman (The setting is amazing, although the builidings and the rest is just boring or ugly...).

Ugly: Well, no city is ugly per se, each has its own side, but If I would have to mention one, I'd say, Cracow is pretty uneventful (besides the utmost inner city)...

PS: Paris is nice, but it changes a lot from banlieu to inner city, and well, it loses against Berlin in the "Big metropolis"-category.

 

[Love]

Was recently in milano. Pretty ugly.

 

[NovaKart]

Beijing fits both categories.



I'd agree with Qiqihar - especially in winter - although some of the newer buildings in Fularji aren't bad.

Why did you go to Qiqihar? I was working in Daqing at the time.

The most interesting thing I saw in Qiqihar, I went to a market and they had some skinned dog carcasses for sale.

Actually there is a zoo and a pretty big park. They even had tigers and a crocodile but the cages were kind of depressing.

 

[Camikaze]

Ekaterinburg has some nice places, but overall, it's not a city that is pleasing to the eye. The title of the most prominent aesthetically offensive building should belong to a recently built fat skyscraper monstrosity that defaces the center:

To me, that building actually looks quite nice and aesthetically pleasing. From the photos, the problem with it is that it doesn't fit in with the surroundings. But on its own merits it seems to me at least to be quite a nice building.

 

[Aquila SPQR]

Pretty: all european/muslim cities that have nice and quite Old Town.

Both Pretty and Ugly: all european cities that have nice and quite Old Town but were touched by gray communistic architecture (Warsaw for example).

Ugly: can't think about it right now, but all mentioned by others are indeed ugly.

 

[Clement]

I've never been there, but some years ago i saw a documentary about Venice narrated by a gentleman called francesco da mosto, it was the most beautiful city i have ever seen, like a priceless museum out in the open, as for the ugliest, i think most cities are ugly and depressing so there's no point in me singling out any by name.

 

[Cashie]

Why did you go to Qiqihar? I was working in Daqing at the time.

The most interesting thing I saw in Qiqihar, I went to a market and they had some skinned dog carcasses for sale.

Actually there is a zoo and a pretty big park. They even had tigers and a crocodile but the cages were kind of depressing.

I worked there for a few months, though I spent most time travelling to the outlying bumf*@k towns. Longsha Park is nice, but I only went there once -even though it was close to my accommodation. I remember going on a slide or something.

Why were you in Daqing? You an oil man?

 

[NovaKart]

No, I was working for an oil company but doing English language training. I went to Qiqihar twice just to visit.

 

[ZeletDude]

Seattle and San Francisco are so cool looking.

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[bhsup]

Most beautiful: I don't even know it's name. It's a tiny little thing nestled in the green mountains on hwy 7. I was driving along and all of a sudden, bam, this valley opens up and I am driving through this town that is out of a normal rockwell painting. It was just....perfect.

Ugliest: Juarez, Mexico

 

[red_elk]

Yaroslavl:

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Barcelona:

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[Xanikk999]

Right next door to me is the ugliest city in my opinion. Allowing the city to build skyscrapers, bulldozing the ghettos, and restructuring the streets to be less "planned" looking (I mean seriously every street makes a perfect square almost) would allow the city to look better.

I think low lying buildings coupled with roman style architecture really looks crappy. We could use more hills too.

 

[Cashie]

Macau is pretty nice.

 

[aronnax]

A couple of Portuguese buildings in an ugly concrete block is nice?

Why not just say Lisbon is pretty nice...

 

[Theige]

New York #1