Brisbane http://i56.tinypic.com/15zlbb5.jpg Brisbane | high resolution: http://gigapan.org/gigapans/52418/ http://i56.tinypic.com/ket9pv.jpg |
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Very nice pics jens. Sydney has a wonderful setting.
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Here's a photo I took of Spokane WA while flying from New York to Seattle in February.
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Don't know if these really belong here, but they are aerial pics of Dallas.... from 1933-34 (pop. ~265,000)...
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/139/3...dfe0b8f1_b.jpg http://farm1.static.flickr.com/143/3...4aa83191_b.jpg http://farm1.static.flickr.com/141/3...94e5793f_b.jpg http://www.flickr.com/photos/bmoulton/ |
Great aerials!
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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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Das es Salaam, Tanzania
http://www.tzaffairs.org/2011/01/dar...truction-boom/ http://farm1.static.flickr.com/96/24...e4d6c573_b.jpg kilimanjaro kempinski hotel dar-es-salaam by antoine_lattouf, on Flickr |
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http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5177/...cf2a0aa7_o.jpg Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania by aneye4apicture, on Flickr |
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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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More Edmonton
Downtown http://bear.sbszoo.com/bear7-8/images8/lrg/009h.jpg (http://bear.sbszoo.com/bear7-8/images8/lrg/009h.jpg) |
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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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