I think that everything have been changed, so that our cities are more beautiful than the past...

In the past, my city may not be prettier, but we felt more comfortable and happier than we now feel about myself and my town, I see it was the most beautiful in childhood, unlike it now.

قد تكون مدينتي في الماضي ليست أجمل

لكننا كنا نشعر فيها براحة وسعادة أكثر مما نشعر به الآن

عن نفسي ومدينتي فإني أراها كانت الأجمل عند الطفولة بخلاف حالها الان

Yes i agree.

Unfortunaly ...no

thanks Marwan Khaleel Yousif

I congratulate you for your optimism

Our past is not dead as the past is historical monument & its cultural environment still make our cities a place of attraction . However from 19 century ,20 th century & 21 th century have already offered a scope of modern change & with this scientific & technological development & new line of business environment have made the city more colorful than the early period .

This is my personal opinion

In Iraq; No

thank you بان حميد فرحان

Amal Suleiman

Bashar Owaid

The place is part of ourselves, so we always feel nostalgic for the place of childhood, that makes our judgments subjective and biased to the home of childhood,

my greetings

Thank you Mohsin_Al-Shammari , totally agree with you, as well as large and congestion and pollution population increases, all negative effects, as well as reported

Our virtuous teacher really believed the cities and places that are related to childhood are not only related to reality but also to the dreams that are too much attached to those places without them as if they are part of the human being and himself

صدقت استاذنا الفاضل فعلا المدن والاماكن

التي ترتبط بالطفولة

لاترتبط بالواقع فحسب بل حتى بالأحلام التي كثيرا ماتكون مرتبطة بتلك الأماكن دون غيرها وكانها جزء

من كيان الإنسان وذاته

thank Rohit Manilal Parikh

It is true that cities have become more diverse and open to others, but at the same time their problems and complexities have increased. We must don't forget the differences between cities among countries. The cities of the developing world have become worse.

I think cities in the past are more beautiful .

No, Iraqi cities were more beautiful and clean in the past than today

nowadays, urban cities have gained more and more negative added in a decorative colourful obsession, like Al Kabond and others.

I agree with you Khansaa_Al-Husseini , many cities of the world are no longer as beautiful as the past, with objective values and not just nostalgia

I agree with you completely Hawraa Mahdi , and Hathermayasf, supposed to urge the opposite and become the most beautiful cities

Our cities were prettier than they are now, as cities were less polluted and their people had jobs, and most of the cities now turned into large villages

Dr Haider Majid Hasan , I agree with you

Most of the cities of the Middle East, having suffered from ruralization , lost the values of cities, and became large villages

Following the answers. Nice question.

Yes. ..... It is a very a sad suitation and unfortunate that our cities nowadays in Iraq are very less beautiful than those in the past

yes

As the saying goes, "beauty is in the eyes of the beholder." Cities these days may look more posh and high tech and may have better sanitation and transportation networks than cities of the yore. However cities of the past are not to be scoffed at. Indus Valley civilization of ca. 3000 BC had one of the earliest urban sanitation systems. The Mayan and other ancient civilizations exhibited a lot of ingenuity and advanced engineering efforts: This, given minimum development in tool technology and less methods available to make mathematical calculations

Following the answers

thank you for you attention Fateh Boutekkouk

Actually, technology has made our lives easier, but they have added new problems, but do not think we only remember beautiful memories and forget the hardships of life in past cities

Sadanand Pandey

The smaller cities and people are nicer, this is true, but had their own problems, now generate a new type of problems

Lamia_Al-Naama

Indeed, the cities of Iraq are going worse, despite all the material and human resources available, it is a very sad situation

I don't think so.

Abdullah Noori

But why

Mangalore, officially known as Mangaluru, is the chief port city of the Indian state of Karnataka. One of the clean and smart city of India

Maybe!

Odessa is nice from 1794 till 2019.

it is related to our criteria for Verdict. how we can introduce the term of beautiful?

our vision is based on mental criteria or physical criteria? these are make different Verdict....

For my hometown it is a big no. Now our cities become more dirtier with the pollutants and denser population.

Anastas Ivanov Ivanov

The architecture was wonderful at that time, but we still see it beautiful

Md. Abdullah Al Mamun , Dmytro Leshchenko , Sadanand Pandey

Fateh Boutekkouk

Architecture can be beautiful, but the cities it contains are not

No, most of the cities have lost their beauty due to population pressure.

thanks Ahmadi_Murjani

The evaluation criteria of cities objective, not only subjective

thanks Ahmadi_Murjani

The evaluation criteria of cities objective, not only subjective

I agree with you Reza Keshtkaran

We want to discuss these criteria, so that we can compare.

I agree with you Reza Keshtkaran

We want to discuss these criteria, so that we can compare.

This is true , Sandhyarani Khomdram

Many cities have become so, due to lack of planning and large population increases

Now the cities in my state are polluted, though some magnificent structures have come up.

According to me in my country, No , our cities become less beautiful than our cities in the past. In the past our cities were very beautiful. There is no comparison between the past and nowadays.

i think yes...

Yes, cities are more beautiful, every where touches the development with skyscraper, mosque, temple, church but something seriously evaporating i.e. humanity.

thanks Sanatombi Devi Yumkham

Not only your country, but most of the cities of developing countries

They may appear to be more beautiful now than before, but see the smokestacks emitting poisons in the air that are killing us slowly.

For me not.

Mercedes Orús-Lacort

Thank you, I agree with you perfectly, where successful countries with a cohesive society have improved their cities and vice versa

Ghada M.Ismael Kamoona

Thank you, this is true, but it is not applicable to the cities of all countries

Arvind Singh

Thank you, that's right, population increases if m controlled will destroy the planet.

Some cities still beautiful because there is a vision to maintain the local identity of the city. But actually the criterion of beauty differs from city to city and also the culture is a very crucial parameter in this equation. Some people find the city beautiful if it is green, while others find city beautiful if it is modern and smart, others like historical cities and find it the most beautiful

Hi

In my county the past its good.

No

I think that it depends on a number of things and places: colonial cities, especially colonial capitals had the location that represented colonial power and wealth. Such sections of cities often were rather pompous and magnificent. Other place of same cities were at times very substandard. I developed, in particular European countries rich historical cities still today of architectural highlights, often established in the Middle Ages. Also there urban magnificence did not reflect the lives of everybody. So the notion of 'beautiful' has a very social connotation, beautiful for whom. I think that from a pure aesthetic point of view cities that are able to control the pollution of waterways, excessive poverty often look nicer than places where this is not happening. What the latter is concerned it is, however, happening at times that governments and municipalities resettle poor to the rim of cities, also to not disturbed 'beauty'.

Good evening

One would assume that the answer will vary from city to city. However, it could be argued that cities in the past have been enriched with more individuality, distinctiveness and character as they were developed in a more secluded environment than they are today, where there is a tendency to focus on global trends.

Regards

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/230738894_Peri-Urban_to_Urban_Landscape_Patterns_Elucidation_through_Spatial_Metrics

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/229826816_Empirical_patterns_of_the_influence_of_Spatial_Resolution_of_Remote_Sensing_Data_on_Landscape_Metrics

Yes, most of the cities currently developing look usually more modern and in some aspects, in some districts, some architectural objects may look more impressive, they may be better integrated into the surroundings compared to the analogical issue from several decades ago.

Best wishes

If we forget level of pollution then it is more buid beautiful

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/230738894_Peri-Urban_to_Urban_Landscape_Patterns_Elucidation_through_Spatial_Metrics

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/229826816_Empirical_patterns_of_the_influence_of_Spatial_Resolution_of_Remote_Sensing_Data_on_Landscape_Metrics

thanks Sanatombi Devi Yumkham

I agree with you, the most important factor to decrease the attractiveness of cities is pollution

Mohammed Jaafar Ali Alatabe

thanks for your answer

Yehya A. Salih

A lot of opinion shares with you, but is evaluation only objective, or nostalgia to the past affects self-assertiveness

Sikandar Khan , Saad Kariem Shather ,Haji Saediman

Thank you for your answers

Many cities are more beautiful now than in the past but aren’t necessarily healthier!

Md. Abdullah Al Mamun

I agree with you, many cities have become less attractive and have lost the human scale, but what are the solutions.

Michael Issigonis

I agree with you to increase pollution and noise in today's cities, but the cities of the past also suffered from many problems.

Haji Saediman

The majority agrees with you. but why .

Lobna Mahmoud Moubarak

The beauty of the city often refers to the basic human needs as well as the aesthetic aspects of the arrangement and organization of the city. But when we say that the cities of the present are ugly, most often we mean the loss of all the features referred to earlier.

Oliver F. Ricardo , Alaa Jabbar Al-Manhel

Thank you for your answers

Our cities may look beautiful, but are polluting a lot, therefore can't be sustainable, need to be changed - to be rebuilt. They represent our society which is growing in the wrong direction, growing towards death and extinction.

We can not say that. Because beauty is relative.

In my country Iraq is not the most beautiful on the contrary and generally whenever the countries are teeming with high urbanism and markets so that the natural monuments disappear the truth will not be beautiful

The beauty I saw in the cities of Turkey and not the capital and in Malaysia and Indonesia where the scenes of the charming nature which is created by the creative creator and no human income in it

Of course not .... in the past it was more beautiful than now

Eberhard Weber

Wonderful analysis, I agree with you, that the beauty of cities does not include the aesthetic aspects but also to the needs of basic human rights, as many of the cities of the world as a result of large increases in the population lost both attributes.

Vladimir Ladinski

I agree with you that the cities were unique and suitable for their inhabitants because they evolved naturally for a long period of time, but cities now tend to be global because civilization has become universal.

Bharath Setturu

Thank you for your answers

Dariusz Prokopowicz

thanks , I think that most cities are meant to be the cities of the Western world, but not all the cities of the world

Best wishes

There might be a different prospective of looking at the facts. The technological advancements are quite higher as compared to past so the technological means of cleanliness are improved these days. On the other hand, this advancement led most of the people heading towards urban areas that consequently caused more pollution in recent times as compared to past

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Past cities are more beautiful than present

Anjay Kumar Mishra

You mean that the cities of the present are beautiful without pollution

Prisilla Jayanthi

The majority share the opinion, but do you think the image of the cities of the past that we received is accurate.

Bharath Setturu

Thank you for your answer

Michael Issigonis

Thank you . But what is the right way? To avoid death and extinction.

Amiraslan Darvish

Thank you because beauty is relative, so it's hard for us to say that.