Before/After Skyline Of Your City

[LouisVanDerWright]

Even better version of the Chicago Wolf Point Comparison:



Some guy on reddit: http://www.reddit.com/r/chicago/comm...1986_and_2013/

[Fresh]

Originally Posted by MeIsThomas

Mississauga

1973:

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2012:

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Future:

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Amazing, they could add every single landmark skyscraper in the world to that site and somehow it would still look like a shopping mall.

[mello]

Dallas actually looked really good from that Uptown angle for 1984 I would say it was beating LA for that year. They must have started their office boom early.

[atlantaguy]

Originally Posted by mhays

Mississaugua....nice skyline and density stats but it looks soooo suburban in every other way.

It is. If the mall and it's massive parking lots weren't so expansive, it probably would have been much more similar to Bellevue long ago.

I don't understand why the mall property hasn't urbanized, as the surrounding neighborhoods have exploded in population.

[Beedok]

Originally Posted by atlantaguy

It is. If the mall and it's massive parking lots weren't so expansive, it probably would have been much more similar to Bellevue long ago.

I don't understand why the mall property hasn't urbanized, as the surrounding neighborhoods have exploded in population.

The last photo shows that they're planning to get rid of most of the parking lots.

[suburbanite]

Originally Posted by atlantaguy

It is. If the mall and it's massive parking lots weren't so expansive, it probably would have been much more similar to Bellevue long ago.

I don't understand why the mall property hasn't urbanized, as the surrounding neighborhoods have exploded in population.

I think it's still more of a "destination mall" in the sense that people will travel from outside of Mississauga to shop there. It's no Eaton Centre that can easily be accessed through public transit, and I'm not sure it could survive without large parking lots yet.

Although, It has become one of the major hubs for GO transit buses in the region, and plans are to infill more and more of those parking lots as time goes on.

[mhays]

It's not just the mall. It's the wide roads, and even a lot of the highrises have suburban-type setbacks.

[thomax]

Niagara Falls, Canada - 1954 vs. 2014


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[muppet]

Originally Posted by The Chemist

Shanghai - Lujiazui (Pudong) - 1987 to 2013


http://cdn.theatlantic.com/static/in...1_RTX1292L.gif

^and that's only a tiny fraction of Shanghai. If the camera were to pan the other way...

[giallo]

Great shot! I can see four of my apartment buildings (three former, one current) in that picture.

[RumbleFish]

Originally Posted by muppet

^and that's only a tiny fraction of Shanghai. If the camera were to pan the other way...

Now that is a serious skyline right there.

[10023]

New York since 1876:

[jcchii]

Those two Pittsburgh photos on prior page are the same shot, unless they paid boaters to put boats in exactly the same spots

[jodelli]

Detroit

Late 50s:


Fred W, my grandfather


Late 00s:


Myself

[thomax]

Hamilton - 1974 vs. 2014 vs. 2020s


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[JManc]

Does Shanghai still have any of its traditional housing/ architecture left?

[tech12]

San Francisco in 1959 vs. now:


http://www.seibelmurphy.com/bayareaviews.html


by Ian Miller on Flickr: https://www.flickr.com/photos/ianphi...690613/sizes/l

The 1940s compared to now:


http://www.route40.net/page.asp?n=26


by Riex on flickr: https://www.flickr.com/photos/photophyl/16024743849/

And another view from the 1950s compared to today:


http://foundsf.org/images/1/16/1950s...HS2010.283.jpg


by Michael Lee on flickr: https://www.flickr.com/photos/528360...981064/sizes/l

[jg6544]

Biggest improvement in San Francisco in the past thirty years was getting rid of those damned freeways.

[tech12]

Originally Posted by jg6544

Biggest improvement in San Francisco in the past thirty years was getting rid of those damned freeways.

Definitely. But most freeways in SF remain, including 95% of what you see in the before pics above. The only parts that were demolished were the embarcadero freeway (not yet built in the before pics) and the northern end of the central freeway, which you can see in the lower left of before pic #1, crossing market street (where it now ends). There were plans for more freeways crossing the city, but thankfully those were stopped.

[Hudson11]

1964:

posted by erickchristian on Wired New York

2014:

ny by Muki2013, on Flickr