15 examples of what urban heaven and hell look like (16 photos)

Streets with a lot of greenery or streets with a lot of parking: which do you prefer?





Fortunately, every year more and more ideas emerge to improve urban planning: greening cities, turning once busy roads into pedestrian zones, and building bicycle paths.

Alas, this improvement of the urban environment does not occur with enviable consistency everywhere. This is exactly what one thread on a popular online platform is dedicated to: users from different parts of the world post examples of successful and unsuccessful urban planning. We have selected the most interesting ones to show what urban hell and heaven look like.

The Prime Minister of the Netherlands cycles to work every day



The Netherlands' Hague and its transformation from hell to heaven





Berlin's bike zone: soon to be larger than Manhattan



City of Houston, Texas in the 1970s



Park area on the site of the highway in Seoul



One of the proposals for the reconstruction of Notre Dame



Changes in the city of Utrecht in the Netherlands over about half a century



Times Square ten years apart: in the first photo there are still cars driving along the street



A cozy place to relax on the site of a former parking lot



A Brief History of Transportation Engineering



Parking for 10 bicycles instead of one car in Stuttgart, Germany



Atlanta at the beginning of the twentieth century and today



The center of Madrid, which has been made pedestrian



American Cleveland, like a giant parking lot



And finally, Paris, which remains just as beautiful, since its business center is isolated