it’s bad folks
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I’ve seen the Chinese tourism sizzle reels on RedNote. I cant unsee them
Show Houston and then tell me that American cities have anything going for them.
The power of angles
Not really, that place still looks miserable and it’s a wonderul counterexample if I was writing a chapter on land use for an urbanism textbook.
American cities look great from a few thousand feet up in the air, if you focus the shot on a giant park where nobody lives, works, or sells shit.
of course, I could find a close up shot in any American city that would require anyone looking at it to get a tetanus shot and take two Silkwood style showers.
Conversely you can also find pictures of “Third world” cities that look wonderful, clean, and modern. Compare the Vietnamese newly built Ho Chi Minh metro system with some downtown Manhattan metro stations, and it’s not Manhattan that comes out looking nice. You have to compare like for like. The average downtown business district of pretty much any decently sized city on earth, “Third world” or otherwise, is going to look nice and clean from afar.
Mogadishu, Somalia
Bakuva, DRC
Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania
3 of the poorest cities on the planet, brought to you by the power of selective photography!
