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Very nice pics jens. Sydney has a wonderful setting.

Here's a photo I took of Spokane WA while flying from New York to Seattle in February.

The layout of Dallas is really odd when you think about it. In those old aerials (especially the first one) it looks like a river city, like St. Louis, except there's no real river just a big flood plain. And then it the second one it's got this massive gap/gash running through the middle with more development on the other side.

They never would due to cost, but it would be funny if they just went whole hog and built a giant, graceful suspension bridge over the flood channel like it was a massive river.

I think the founders of the city expected Dallas to become a "river city" and the notion of deepening the Trinity River all the way to the Gulf so it could accommodate cargo vessels was around into the '60s. Utter nonsense, of course. The other strange thing about Dallas' layout is that the original plan, a conventional grid, seems to have been abandoned fairly early on and all the streets just shot off at angles from the grid.

The reason for that flood plain is that it's a real flood plain. The Trinity used to be subject to severe flooding before they built dams upstream from Dallas and Ft. Worth.

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Originally Posted by 10023 (Post 5257162)

I'm guessing you're just joking, but they are building a suspension bridge over the flood plain right now that will be completed this year, and will be building another after it.

There is/was a river there. It flooded downtown and surrounding areas so a flood plain and levees were built in the 1930s.

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Originally Posted by rantanamo (Post 5261548)

Really? That's interesting. I would have thought that a suspension bridge would not be the most cost-effective way to span the flood plan (given that any bridge crossing would not need to be very high, and I would assume it's easy to construct a causeway bridge when it's not flooded).

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Originally Posted by M II A II R II K (Post 5260825)

"Chicago From the Sky: A Region Transformed."

Some of these before and after shots are amazing:

I-55 Corridor, Will County (1990):
http://www.chicagotribune.com/media/...4/61046488.jpg

I-55 Corridor, Will County (2010):
http://www.chicagotribune.com/media/...4/61046470.jpg

South end of Grant Park (1998):
http://www.chicagotribune.com/media/...4/61046517.jpg

South end of Grant Park (2010):
http://www.chicagotribune.com/media/...4/61046515.jpg

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Originally Posted by jens (Post 5233389)

http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5133/...77c1fa61_b.jpg
http://www.flickr.com/photos/sheetbr...n/photostream/

Sydney is awesome.

This is one of the best angles i've ever seen of the city that shows off it's amazing location:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v2...rchipelego.jpg
Source

I like this aerial angle of my city.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v2...greatangle.jpg
Credit: I think it was mrherodotus

Really beautiful view of Pittsburgh.

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Originally Posted by AusHou (Post 5270071)

Really beautiful view of Pittsburgh.

Yes! Glad someone else likes it. I <3 it.

looks great to me. nice and dence as well. i have always loved how all of the bridges suround the city center.

Wow, I had no idea Sydney had that amazing of a skyline.

Stinson Beach, CA(at the very bottom of this pic) with SF and Oakland in the distance.:D
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2356/...fcf42c37_b.jpg
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2356/...fcf42c37_b.jpg

A picture of Winnipeg from around 38,000 feet in June 06.

http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e6...P9250069-1.jpg

Salt Lake City April, 2011:

http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5264/...2671e915_b.jpg
By kla4067 on Flickr

sweet guys, keep the pix coming!

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Originally Posted by PA Pride (Post 5270358)

Yes! Glad someone else likes it. I <3 it.

i cant wait to get to Pittsburgh:tup: many people i know have been and love it

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Originally Posted by sterlippo1 (Post 5290805)

i cant wait to get to Pittsburgh:tup: many people i know have been and love it

Brendan Gill, architecture writer for The New Yorker, 1990: "If Pittsburgh were situated somewhere in the heart of Europe, tourists would eagerly journey hundreds of miles out of their way to visit it."

:frog:

Day-um. Melbourne looks incredible in that photo. I really like the dark saturation or whatever it is. Looks great.

India needs HEIGHT. C'mon India! Rise up, make your economic might known. Let's see some real skylines. Im sure we will see many in the decades to come. :)

Detroit Looking Down Grand River Avenue (Midtown and New Center in background left)

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2745/...5416478d_b.jpg
Sean Frego

March 2nd - Downtown

http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5106/...0bddfb11_b.jpg
dsearl

http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5263/...ff4ae915_b.jpg
dsearl

Downriver: Ford River Rouge & Zug Island

http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5185/...e56779c1_b.jpg
dsearl

http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5190/...5bb6fb69_b.jpg
dsearl

Still for all its losses a pretty massive area, though, the snow does highlight where much has been loss.

Jesus, what a great picture.

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2745/...5416478d_b.jpg

Love it!!

Londrina, Brazil
500,000k

http://lh6.ggpht.com/_XjOVQxPLyI8/SN...gua+Fresca.jpg
Yuri S Andrade - Skyscrapercity Brasil

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Originally Posted by suncity (Post 5312050)

Kolkata, India

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Those are very nice shots but you should know that they aren't aerial photographs . Aerial means from the sky (for all intents and purposes) and simply going up a few floors doesn't count .

Certainly those photos belong in a thread around here (they are very nice) but not in this thread .

I can see my job from here!
Or what will, in the not so distant future, be my former job.
I wish I was kidding. They've already shifted most of the hard programming and QA stuff to Pune. It's only a matter of time before IT goes too.

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Originally Posted by NYguy (Post 4664458)

New York, the city's 3 largest business districts of Midtown, Downtown, and downtown Brooklyn...

L1mey

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4010/...3dff38c0_o.jpg

Just ridiculous. The relatively new Silver Towers are very conspicuous!

There was an LA guy the other day telling me how Singapore, etc. had better skylines than NYC. Totally laughable. The sheer density is the greatest in the world. Should be a world wonder, IMO.

Greater Noida, India

photo copyright Code Martial

original photo here

http://img402.imageshack.us/img402/5...coemartial.jpg

Magarpatta City (2010), Pune, India

photo copyright Pushkar Bagmar

http://img560.imageshack.us/img560/3...yaerialpun.jpg

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