What makes a town ugly to you? (power lines, new house)

[Billiam]

The way it is built, but also maintained

[AK123]

Yes; for example, many of the Houston suburbs are naturally full of trees and greenery because of the geographic location and climate. The good developers leave these (especially in the northwest parts of town). Dallas, on the other hand, has mostly "treeless" suburbs and a prairie landscape outside of downtown. This lack of trees would also be the case in Vegas and Phoenix. Not sure about the other cities mentioned.

Originally Posted by sweetclimber

Don't forget to add Miami, LA, Atlanta, SD, Dallas etc. if you are going to use the 4 examples that you did.

Originally Posted by crisp444

The way it is built. Some of the soulless, cookie-cutter, treeless, cul-de-sac subdivisions being built around Orlando, Las Vegas, Phoenix, and Houston are horrifyingly ugly. ... "Not much vegetation" plays into what I hate about cookie-cutter pre-fab communities.

[tpk-nyc]

Too many parking lots. I like towns/cities that are walkable. Strip malls and "office/industrial parks" are hideous, in my opinion.

[city_data91]

I voted other. Snow makes a town look ugly.

[orangeapple]

For me it is a combination of not much vegetation or no variety of it, the way it is built, and being FLAT. I hate when there are no mountains. When I was in Orlando I thought it was ugly because it was so flat. Also, there was vegetation, but it was all green, no variety of colors. I'll take certain desert terrains over that.
I like the weird conglomeration of buildings in Los Angeles. It's not the most beautiful city, but it's like this defiant rebel city that does it different from everyone else.

[miamiman]

Old houses, decaying infrastructure, factories, an overabundance of frumpy people, narrow streets, and unpleasant smells

[kyle_orton_bears]

all the old ugly stinky looking houses in nyc/rest of northeast
looks gross...i like clean modern houses like L.A ...with nice roads to drive nice cars on...not ugly cramped streets with smellly trains

[Ben Around]

Sprawl, strip malls, parking lots, extremely wide streets, bland developments built for cars not people.

[bobsmith]

Borring, cookie-cutter archiatecture is the biggest killer to me.

[Nivalis]

A lack of sidewalks is an instant turn-off, especially if the area is hilly; why would I want to live near civilization if I can't walk anywhere without trying to share the road with cars and trucks? Also, poorly maintained roads can make an affluent area look extremely ugly.