Designers from the Brazilian Bureau Urb-i decided to show how livable cities look like. For this they used Google Street View panoramas, with which you can find not only excellent examples of current street design, but also to find out how these places looked in the past. Everything is known in comparison, and judging by this collection, even the most terrible places can change for the better. Let’s have a look.

Nordvall, The Hague, Netherlands

Clyde Warren Park in Dallas, United States

Encarnación Square in Seville, Spain

Times Square in New York, USA

Ferenciek Square in Budapest, Hungary

Boulevard Griffith Park, Los Angeles, USA

Amsterdamstraat in Antwerp, Belgium

Bree Street in Cape Town, South Africa

Young Street, Southport, Australia

Intersection of Broadway and 17th East Street in New York, USA

Gosford Street, Coventry, England

Place des Jacobins, Lyon, France

Via Garibaldi, Lyon, France

Château d'O, Bordeaux, France

Via Makeda, Palermo, Italy

Hauser Plads, Copenhagen, Denmark
East Trit, Horsham, England

Ksarnock ter in Budapest, Hungary 

Vester Voldgeyd, Copenhagen, Denmark

Granery Square, London, England
Fraars Bridge Road, Ipswich, England

Coentis Slip, New York, USA

Anam-ro, Seoul, South Korea
Cervantes street, Naples, Italy

Ragnebuepladsen, Copenhagen, Denmark

45th Avenue, New York, USA