No doubt a lot of SF looks worse now, but it should be possible to find better examples than these. Some of their modern examples look like improvements to me,

No doubt a lot of SF looks worse now, but it should be possible to find better examples than these. Some of their modern examples look like improvements to me, others just look like they took a bad photograph in one case and a good one in the other. Others are explained by the fact that you have to build housing for people because there are more of them. Can't really hold it against a city if it's more populated than it was a hundred years ago.