Link to the first thread in this series.
USA Sprawl Festival
Or, click on the following links to see just individual cities in that thread:
Kansas City
Some northern Denver suburbs
Albuquerque
Seattle
Las Vegas
Dallas-Fort Worth
Some western & southern Minneapolis suburbs
Orange County, California
Philadelphia
Tucson
Orlando
Northern Virginia/DC
Cleveland
Houston
Atlanta
Indianapolis
Long Island, New York
Jacksonville
Boston
And the 2nd round ones:
Phoenix-East
Phoenix-South
Phoenix-North
Phoenix-West
Portland
Silicon Valley
Los Angeles
San Bernardino County
San Diego - south
San Diego - north
Buffalo
Broward County, Florida
Dallas-Fort Worth II
Riverside County, California
Denver - south suburbs
Orange County II
Bergen and Passaic Counties, New Jersey
Milwaukee
Columbus
El Paso, with some Juarez
San Antonio
Detroit
Tampa
Cincinnati
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EAST BAY AREA, KOLLYFORNIA
Oakland and environs in case some of our non-American friends don't know.
The rule of thumb for these pics is, the fewer trees there are, the farther east the pic was taken. Except for new development, which tends not to have many trees at all.
Close-up of some newer houses. Looks like . . . the same thing in Silicon Valley, SoCal and Sacramento.
Not sprawl. Some inner-city areas of Oakland (I think) for comparison.
At least it's got a BART station.
You can play tennis or go swimming on your lunch break. Only in Kollyfornia.
Gotta refine oil for all that sprawl. There's lots of refineries and oil tank farms in the Bay Area, especially the north Bay, it seems.
Oil is needed to get to these. God bless America, Land of Eternal Sprawl!
Are you bored yet?
Another close-up of new houses. At least they're somewhat dense.
New on the left, old on the right.
I believe this was pretty far east, almost to Stockton if I recall correctly.
Here I ventured farther west again, I think.
A denser sort-of neotraditional development along the waterfront (in Richmond or thereabouts).
Close-up of some older sprawl.
Here's what it all looked like before the sprawl . . .
. . . Now let's add some "improvements."
This was reasonably interesting. New housing on the edges of a mall. I think this was in Walnut Creek. It looked like this would normally be spots for "outparcel" development such as fast food joints. But it appears they decided to go another route for these particular lots. Good idea.
Typical "power center" shopping center. With houses in back.
Looks like the hillside stuff in my L.A. sprawl thread.
Back to the waterfront. I think this was in Alameda. At least it's dense.
More older not-so-sprawly inner city stuff, for comparison.
UC Berkeley, just for the heck of it.
Nice hillside stuff.
A traffic jam amid the sprawl. How appropriate.