ITT god-tier cities
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Not the best by any measure, but imagine it.
Pre-snackbar Muslim cities, all mystical and Aladdin and shit.
CITY OF GOLD
>>907249
>hey guys, lets build a minature of the ancient city and that one holiest place in judaism we will NEVER have
>EVER
>>907259
They can tie firecrackers to little suicide bombers.
Constantinople at its height sometime in the 9th or 10th century.
>>907265
TALK SHIT. GET HIT.
>>907249
Honestly, I used to love building little miniature cities with sticks and dirt when I was a kid...
I'm also half-Jewish. Perhaps there's some connection.
I would love to see Babylon or Rome during there peak.
>>907265
So sexy.
>>907215
Baghdad was at it's height under Islamic rule
>>907480
Nice what city that is?
Quit posting screenshots of Civ 6
I really really like this thread. But the reigning champ is here.
>>907516
Looks like constantinople
You can even see a little hagia sophia
>>907200
dat port, damn.
>>907480
That looks tiny, no way ~200,000 and possibly a million people lived there.
>>907249
That dude on the right looks giant, like attack on titan or some shit. I'd love to run around in that miniature city, just breaking things with that theme song playing.
>>907539
>sandniggers
>>907193
Beijing during the glory days of the Chinese Grid City
>>907200
What's the round building for? And how the hell did they build it?
>>909117
It's an artificial harbour
>>909117
It's a fortified harbor for Carthage's navy. Shit was legendary.
>>907261
Underrated post
>>907539
ITT: "God"-tier cities w/ no bagels.
>>907344
I would do that shit all the time, I made little rock homes and lined pebbles for roads. Particularly nice looking rocks would be the bank, town hall, etc.
>>907899
This is literally the only correct answer. In fact ancient Chinese cities should just get their own tier since everything else either fall short in scale or technique, if not both.
>>907193
The maya built some pretty cool shit.
>>909261
Shit, I meant Aztecs.
>>909253
Roman and Chinese cities operated on the same principle of Grid Plans actually.
Its only when the Europeans went medieval that you had """"""""natural"""""""""" city growth with confusing streets and districts that make no sense.
>>909267
>Implying natural city growth isn't so much more interesting than autistic grid planning
Pic mostly unrelated, still way sexier than other cities though.
>>909291
Modern Paris was fucking planned. Hausmann destroyed medieval Paris.
>>909304
Which is why I said pic unrelated, mate.
It's still not a bad looking city. Much rather have a central point like that though instead of just "hurr squares lmao"
>>907866
You realize the picture is New York city right?
Teotihuacan, Aztecs called it City of Gods.
>>909416
Do all these pyramids only function as a temple?
>>909374
We have them here too. He's probably from some small-town in the South, visited Manhattan once, and that was his impression of it. -_-
>>909317
Oh sorry, ignore my post I suk cocks.
>>909581
>-_-
>>907539
I work in the freedom tower, view is fucking sweet
>>909630
The people that work there call it "Freedom tower"? I thought that was just some redneck shit. You don't call it One World Trade?
I haven't been south of Mott Street in years. I was at ground zero maybe a week after the attack, only 11 at the time. The way I see it, the 9/11 memorial isn't something that New Yorkers visit. It's there for redneck tourists, and sentimental families of victims.
>>909825
Lol I call it both, partially out of spite for people who get bothered one way or the other. I still haven't visited the memorial either.
Still it's pretty surreal walking out of your place of work and seeing people take pics of the building.
>>909927
Additionally I'd send a photo from my phone but it's saying the file is too large
>>909927
I bet it is. I was born in Queens, grew up in south Nassau, and it's still surreal to me. You never get used to having the greatest city in the world right in your backyard.
I've been meaning to come see the observation deck down there. When I was a kid, I went with my father to the top of the Empire State, Statue of Liberty, and had plans to visit the top of the WTC literally the Tuesday after it was destroyed.
Maybe I'll find a girl this summer, and make a date out of it.
>>909416
>Aztecs called it City of Gods
Back when they were nothing but nomadic scum, Tenochtitlan outscore Teotihuacan at everything.
>>910056
I know the lounge on the 63rd floor is free to employees and their guests at least, look into if there's some sort of public viewing. I think to go to the top it's 35, and there's some tourist trap restaurant up top. Haven't been to the observation deck yet, but my desk faces north so I get a good view of all of Manhattan
Modern cities are ugly as shit. Skyscrapers in particular are cancerous growths on the skyline.
Fuck all of you posting New York or any similar metropolis.
>>910177
I'm sorry we can't all be aesthetically pleasing but irrelevant underpopulated European settlements.
>>910207
>implying it's due to population and not an American ego thing
>>910222
>implying implications
Tall buildings are a consequence of the high price of downtown space in any large city and pop up wherever they're technologically feasible and not prohibited by law.
>>910222
>[Are you quite sure this what you want?]
Ok, I laughed.
>>910177
>Skyscrapers in particular are cancerous growths on the skyline.
Tall lean buildings were a thing even in the Middle-Ages you know ? Did you see what ancient Bologna and San Gimignano looked like for instance ?
>>909416
Do we even know who built this? It was ancient when aztecs showed up, right?
>>909244
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N4ZGC81gbaE
if i could go anywhere in time I would want to see carthage, hannibal was such a badass
>>909581
Really like New York aerial pics. The Bodies of water give the cityscape some form so it's not just endless amorphous sprawl
>>910272
>hannibal was such a badass
Too bad badassery doesn't win wars and common sense does then...
Persepolis
imagine what this shit must have been like in its heyday
>>910177
I still value glass/steel legos over grey concrete legos, not by a large margin though.
It just pains to see Finnish architecture pre-1960's, it wasn't world class or anything, but at least the wooden or red brick buildings had some character. When nearly everything old was bulldozed in the 60's and new shit was built, it looked exactly like this horror from the place where I did my military service.
Where my 416/647 bros at?
>>910222
Europe is a continent past its prime.
Don't bitch about it and simply enjoy your postcard-picture cities. It's all they're good for.
>>910418
>Europe is a continent past its prime.
We'll see about that, Mohammed.
>>910480
I'm fucking American, oh person who is probably more likely to be named Mohammed. Or at least one of his future children. Oh wait, Europe can't into children.
>>909416
Even surviving Mayan tribes who forgot about their roots thought their ancestors temples were built by gods.
![Rome 1 to 250 Scale Model -Pierino Di Carlo [1933].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/RNDmWTe.jpg "Rome 1 to 250 Scale Model -Pierino Di Carlo [1933].jpg")
>>910500
Hearing Americans talk about Europe is like a teenage boy talking shit about his mum. How about some respect for your mother continent, who gave you our language and your culture. I'm not hating on Americans btw, a parent should be proud of his child.
>>910631
I don't blame them
>>909460
Some, but others contain royal burials underneath.
>>910082
Teotihuacan was about 1,000 years older though.
>>910258
No one knows their ethnicity with certainty. Some have suggested Hñahñu people. But it was a cosmopolitan city, there were neighborhoods of certain ethnicities living in apartment complexes.
>>910631
Well yes, it's a way of denoting something impressive. The common term for such cities were Tollan, Place of Reeds or Place of Cattails. For example the great temple of Cholula which is the largest in all of mesoamerica and I think the largest in the world, was said to be built by a race of human eating giants.
On kindle
Someone post Edinburgh
>>910885
Edinburgh
Imagine I posted a picture of Angkor Wat in its heyday
>>907627
that's probably art of it during the byzantine empire's decline before the turks came and revitalized it
>>909291
that roundabout is disgusting.
>>909304
Hausmann changed less than most people think. But I agree with the other Anon in that I much prefer Parisian city planning where monumental axis were drawn between already important places to the soulless square grids that seemed to have been the norm everywhere else from Rome and China to America.
>>911686
Map of revolutionary Paris.
>>911614
It looks better without whatever protest was going on there.
>>911699
Britain, not Paris, but same idea.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iAgX6qlJEMc
The city built on sticks, I don't know how it is now, but it used to be pretty sweet.
>>911718
lel, well yeah Americans don't know how to drive, what else is new.
>>910706
Yeah i think all parents want their kids to grow up to be better than them.
>>911719
>I don't know how it is now
Completely full of guidos.
>>909825
love that resurant
>>911831
It's the place to go when you're high as shit with your friends at 3am.
>>909825
Oh shit.. is that the place near Century 21.. sort of connected to a subway entrance?
I had amazing shrimp noodles there in the mid 90's when I was a kid, and every time since then whenever I'd visit the city I'd check in but they were always closed :(
My dad used to work at the WTC before 9/11. I remember that restaurant, Century 21 and CD 101.9 radio station playing smooth jazz in the common area outside. Good times.
>>907249
what is this?
>>909253
t. chinese living in the west
>>907505
>Founded by muslims in the eigth century
No shit Sherlock??
>>910056
>Maybe I'll find a girl this summer, and make a date out of it.
Keep dreaming loser
>>911933
Nah, yo... Wo Hop, 17 Mott St, Chinatown. Not connected to a subway entrance, just happens to be in a basement.
>>911460
lel troled
>>910222
oh my god, parking everywhere. I want to live here so bad.
>see god-tier city thread in catalog
>check it out
>all these cities of men posted
>mfw
>>912165
Here you go... just for you.
>>911691
Here's the massive map of Turgot (1739) for 18th century Paris, it's hard to find a better one.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turgot_map_of_Paris#Description
>>912206
Shit, this is a beautiful photo
>>910386
awful city, awful planning, awful """culture"""
t. je me souviens, motherfucker
It's absolute Müll now though.
Fucking Russians.
>>910706
Instead of whining why don't you try and fix it? Apathy is one of the cancers of the west.
>>907539
Skyscrapers suck.
>>910283
What's the big square structure in the middle? Main temple?
>>907193
>tfw there aren't even sketches of Ctesiphon that are based off its prime before ruin
every time I see one of these threads I get the urge to load up minecraft and start building them but I don't have the sheer autism or friends who share my vision to do so.
>>910386
Fucking garbage city right here m8ties.
Vancouver, and especially Montreal, were much better cities
>>912206
>"Come, Ye Saints" starts playing
>>916236
I've been to an exposition on Carthage in the Dutch Royal Museum of Antiquities in Leiden last year. and the circular port was the navy port, with its centre building a temple to the Carthaginian sea god and an navy officer's mess hall. The port in between the navy port and the sea is Carthage's trade port.
