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Old 10-02-2009, 06:25 PM
 
Location: USA
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I have a feeling that the ugliest city in the world is a mid-sized city somewhere in the the former Soviet bloc. Somewhere without enough history to have any beautiful old buildings and filled with bland/decaying communist construction.
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Old 10-23-2009, 08:23 AM
 
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I have a feeling that the ugliest city in the world is a mid-sized city somewhere in the the former Soviet bloc. Somewhere without enough history to have any beautiful old buildings and filled with bland/decaying communist construction.
they are still better than 90% of cities in africa (e.g nairobi, mogidishu, kinshasa, harare, etc).
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Old 10-25-2009, 05:42 PM
 
Location: UK
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Of those I've seen so far:


Prettiest:

London (the good parts)
Edinburgh
Oxford
York
Prague
Krakow
Wroclaw
Gdansk
Rome (centre only)
Paris (ditto)

Ugliest:

London (the bad parts)
Glasgow
Dublin (unbelievably overrated as well)
Rome (suburbs)
Paris (suburbs)
Warsaw (virtually everything except the Old Town)
Salford
Bradford
Coventry
Liverpool
Sheffield
Ostrava
Katowice
Radom

Haven't been outside Europe yet, but I'll be in Hong Kong this time next month, and can't wait
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Old 10-27-2009, 02:02 PM
 
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The prettiest city I've ever been in is Hanoi. A lovely lake right in the center of downtown, and no ugly high-rises. A few other lovely cities are Antananarivo, Madagascar, Rijeka, Slovenia; Valparaiso, Chile; New Orleans, Louisiana (formerly---I haven't been there since Katrina).
o my god..............RIJEKA IS IN CROATIA-NOT SLOVENIA.....god.......
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Old 10-27-2009, 10:10 PM
 
Location: Houston
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Prettiest: Vancouver

Ugliest: Baghdad
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Old 10-29-2009, 12:32 AM
 
Location: 53179
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Prettiest SF, NY and LA off the top of my head
Ugliest: Glasgow, Liverpool, Benidorm off the top of my head
LA? Are you serious?
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Old 10-29-2009, 12:37 AM
 
Location: 53179
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Of the cities I actually been or lived in

Prettiest:
Stockholm, Sweden
Munich, Germany
Nurnberg, Germany
Koln,Germany
London, England
Seattle, Washington
Spokane, Washington

Ugliest

Detroit
Memphis
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Old 11-14-2009, 01:40 AM
 
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Haven't been outside Europe yet, but I'll be in Hong Kong this time next month, and can't wait
You've got both right there! Prettiest from a distance, but pretty ugly the closer you get. The world's greatest skyline, but you need to be on a boat to appreciate it because the streets are concrete canyons.

Still the coolest city in the world, though.
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Old 11-14-2009, 06:09 AM
 
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Prettiest

Berlin
Helsinki
Santiago
Quito

Ugliest

cities in Kazakhstan
cities in China except Beijing and Lhasa
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Old 11-17-2009, 01:27 PM
 
Location: between Ath,GR & Mia,FL...
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Prettiest...?

Rome or Florence,Italy...

Ugliest...?

Impossible to come to conclusion,so many candidates...
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