Could be interesting to juxtapose old/actual photos I immediately recognized this perspective, in the (nowadays) turkish district : http://i.imgur.com/Lj5guCF.jpg vs http://goo.gl/maps/d7rDc

There's a picture art book called Revisiting Eugene Atget's Paris which compares a famous photographers' early 20th century photographs of Paris and similarly-exposed black and white shots from the same position almost 100 years later

You're right, Atget's work is also particularly interesting! Here's a link to some of his pictures: http://openpn.tumblr.com/tagged/Atget

Yup, just noticed how the modern pharmacy sign on the left is in the same location as a very similar (though red instead of green) sign ~100 years ago.

Like many major European cities. You'll struggle to find a building in Rome's center that didn't exist 150 years ago.

Germany being an exception.

And Rotterdam...

I was going to say the same thing; there are no more horse-drawn carriages on the city's bridges and the dresses have changed a lot, but the buildings and general surroundings, and night scenes are very identical today.

Paris never ages...

Also dramatically less advertising (though even today Paris doesn't have that much.)