Aerial Photos

[dc_denizen]

Minneapolis

North Loop Gateway Minneapolis from 750 feet 2-15-20 by Matt Bappe, on Flickr

Uptown SW Minneapolis density from downtown 9-26-19 by Matt Bappe, on Flickr

[liat91]

Originally Posted by dave8721

Fort Lauderdale:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/kriukoff/49534362231

Wow the memories. How Fort Lauderdale has grown up.
Weird how this secondary city has a larger skyline than Orlando, a metro much larger than Broward county alone.

[wwmiv]

Originally Posted by The ATX

g-man435 took a lot of incredible drone photos around downtown shortly after sunrise this morning. Most of them are posted in the individual project threads in the Austin subforum.

Here are some of g-man's skyline shots. Austin has ~45 towers in development between 300' and 1,000'. Almost 1/3 (14) of them have already started. The skyline will be seriously ramping up over the next five years - as long as the economy doesn't tank.

https://forum.skyscraperpage.com/sho...postcount=5330

[dc_denizen]

Sydney, Aus

Untitled by VirtualWolf, on Flickr

Untitled by VirtualWolf, on Flickr

[Coldrsx]

Sydney is ridiculous.

[dc_denizen]

One of the better high-rez pics I've sign of Miami from the south

https://flic.kr/p/EJq59z

[ATXboom]

Dang. Some of the best Austin pics I’ve seen! Looking forward to ~30 more towers in those views over the next few years.

[dc_denizen]

Austin future skyline rendering

Austin future skyline rendering b&w by Henry Han, on Flickr

Austin future skyline 2022 by Henry Han, on Flickr

[ATXboom]

And that’s missing the BBVA tower!

[wwmiv]

Originally Posted by ATXboom

And that’s missing the BBVA tower!

That’s missing a bunch of stuff

[dc_denizen]

Dhaka, Bangladesh

Aerial Photography of Dhaka by Rakib Arnab, on Flickr

[jtown,man]

Why don't cities in Florida have curbs on their streets?

[dave8721]

Originally Posted by jtown,man

Why don't cities in Florida have curbs on their streets?

Not really sure why. Curbs are basically non-existent outside of major roads or urban commercial districts. It's not just a new development/cheap infrastructure thing either. Looking at different areas around Miami it seems that the no-curb thing started around 1950. But even then, 1920's/30s residential areas in Coral Gables or Miami Beach are largely curbless. We don't need curbs for drainage as all water pretty much instantly soaks into non-paved ground.

1920s no curbs:
https://www.google.com/maps/@25.7547...7i16384!8i8192

1920s/30s streets w/curbs:
https://www.google.com/maps/@25.7569...7i16384!8i8192

1950s street no curbs:
https://www.google.com/maps/@25.7466...7i16384!8i8192



Its even the new fad to rehab existing urban streets to remove curbs:
https://www.google.com/maps/@25.7495...7i16384!8i8192

[Murphy de la Sucre]

Originally Posted by Coldrsx

Sydney is ridiculous.

I was just about to say Sydney is my favorite city of all time（more favorable than NYC and Toronto that I'd been to）, then you forced me to check the dictionary again to see what I missed in school or social life but it turned out "ridiculous" doesn't have any hidden meaning of positive matters, so please, Canadian, explain ... Aussie blokes need your explain ... so you are not our mate any more?

[bilbao58]

Originally Posted by Murphy de la Sucre

I was just about to say Sydney is my favorite city of all time（more favorable than NYC and Toronto that I'd been to）, then you forced me to check the dictionary again to see what I missed in school or social life but it turned out "ridiculous" doesn't have any hidden meaning of positive matters, so please, Canadian, explain ... Aussie blokes need your explain ... so you are not our mate any more?

https://www.urbandictionary.com/defi...erm=ridiculous

[Murphy de la Sucre]

Originally Posted by bilbao58

https://www.urbandictionary.com/defi...erm=ridiculous

So we do say "I like her, she is such a ridiculous individual" or "I love this place, what a ridiculous city" now?

[dc_denizen]

Austin

The Independent, Austin by Dave Wilson, on Flickr

[dc_denizen]

Dallas

Downtown Dallas, 02-23-19 by skys the limit2, on Flickr

[bilbao58]

Outdated but still impressive shot of Houston.




The historic WB-57 formation flight of three WB-57's over the Houston area as it banks a foggy turn over downtown on Nov. 19, 2015. NASA Photographer: Robert Markowitz by NASA Johnson, on Flickr

[edale]

IMO, Austin now has the second best skyline in Texas after Houston. I find the Dallas skyline to be pretty underwhelming for a city of its size and growth.