Extraordinary scenery shots
February 24, 2014 6:26 AM Subscribe
Some extraordinary scenery shots.
#1 is obviously Manhattan.
#3 is Rio.
#5 is Niagara.
#7 is Egypt.
#8 is Dubai.
#9 is Venice.
Where is #2?
#1 is obviously Manhattan.
#3 is Rio.
#5 is Niagara.
#7 is Egypt.
#8 is Dubai.
#9 is Venice.
Where is #2?
Probably easier to tell where these are if we look at the original.
posted by vacapinta at 6:31 AM on February 24, 2014 [1 favorite]
posted by vacapinta at 6:31 AM on February 24, 2014 [1 favorite]
Sorry, I followed links and thought I had found the original. Apologies.
posted by Chocolate Pickle at 6:33 AM on February 24, 2014
posted by Chocolate Pickle at 6:33 AM on February 24, 2014
The Barcelona one is really cool, like something from a science fiction movie.
posted by KokuRyu at 6:35 AM on February 24, 2014 [1 favorite]
posted by KokuRyu at 6:35 AM on February 24, 2014 [1 favorite]
And where is #4?
posted by EmpressCallipygos at 6:39 AM on February 24, 2014
posted by EmpressCallipygos at 6:39 AM on February 24, 2014
There's a golf course next to the Great Pyramid? Those Pharaohs thought of everything!
posted by Thorzdad at 6:50 AM on February 24, 2014 [1 favorite]
posted by Thorzdad at 6:50 AM on February 24, 2014 [1 favorite]
#4 is Malé, the crowded capital of the otherwise pristine Maldives.
posted by mbn at 6:52 AM on February 24, 2014
posted by mbn at 6:52 AM on February 24, 2014
That second one looks like La Plata, Argentina to me.
Also, somewhat, previously.
posted by zinon at 6:52 AM on February 24, 2014
Also, somewhat, previously.
posted by zinon at 6:52 AM on February 24, 2014
#4 is the Maldives capital Male.
#6 is somewhere in the Low Countries.
#8 is a "future" picture of Dubai, not as it is now.
posted by Thing at 6:53 AM on February 24, 2014
#6 is somewhere in the Low Countries.
#8 is a "future" picture of Dubai, not as it is now.
posted by Thing at 6:53 AM on February 24, 2014
My overwhelming initial reaction to the very first picture: God, Manhattan is lucky to have Central Park.
posted by erlking at 6:59 AM on February 24, 2014 [2 favorites]
posted by erlking at 6:59 AM on February 24, 2014 [2 favorites]
That second one looks like La Plata, Argentina to me.
Not unless they moved the Sagrada Familia.
posted by Segundus at 7:03 AM on February 24, 2014
Not unless they moved the Sagrada Familia.
posted by Segundus at 7:03 AM on February 24, 2014
It's not La Plata, besides the original pic putting it at Barcelona, as you can see in the topmost post of this blog, La Plata tends to have a different look in that most blocks are full of houses and not buildings, and there's lots of trees in the sidewalks.
posted by Iosephus at 7:06 AM on February 24, 2014
posted by Iosephus at 7:06 AM on February 24, 2014
#10 is Santiago, Chile.
posted by theodolite at 7:24 AM on February 24, 2014
posted by theodolite at 7:24 AM on February 24, 2014
Also, if you like the first picture, here's a very cool 360-degree panorama of the same thing.
posted by theodolite at 7:28 AM on February 24, 2014
posted by theodolite at 7:28 AM on February 24, 2014
Here's the story behind #6, and the original Flickr set it's from.
posted by gubo at 7:54 AM on February 24, 2014
posted by gubo at 7:54 AM on February 24, 2014
That Barcelona original one looks like my end games of Sim City. But with way better graphics.
posted by DigDoug at 9:15 AM on February 24, 2014 [1 favorite]
posted by DigDoug at 9:15 AM on February 24, 2014 [1 favorite]
very cool. thanks for posting. also, now I want to go to Barcelona.
posted by theora55 at 9:50 AM on February 24, 2014
posted by theora55 at 9:50 AM on February 24, 2014
#2 is a really good illustration of the chamfered building design of the Eixample district in Barcelona. I did a school term in Barcelona studying architecture and one of the first things they had us do was to head out to various neighbourhoods and study the form and density of the neighbourhood.
As a practicing urban planner I use this neighbourhood all the time in an illustration of expectations of housing density and cost in Canada. In Vancouver, a neighbourhood in a city that's comparable population-wise to Barcelona, an inner city neighbourhood like Kitsilano or Kerrisdale has a housing density of 10-50 units per acre, depending on whether it's single-family housing or multifamily. In the Eixample, the 10-12 storey buildings have a density of around 300-350 units per acre. That's give or take 1000 people living on one acre, or 10 times the density of Vancouver's inner city.
posted by jimmythefish at 1:08 PM on February 24, 2014 [1 favorite]
As a practicing urban planner I use this neighbourhood all the time in an illustration of expectations of housing density and cost in Canada. In Vancouver, a neighbourhood in a city that's comparable population-wise to Barcelona, an inner city neighbourhood like Kitsilano or Kerrisdale has a housing density of 10-50 units per acre, depending on whether it's single-family housing or multifamily. In the Eixample, the 10-12 storey buildings have a density of around 300-350 units per acre. That's give or take 1000 people living on one acre, or 10 times the density of Vancouver's inner city.
posted by jimmythefish at 1:08 PM on February 24, 2014 [1 favorite]
Every time I see a picture of Venice from the air I think "that place is utterly ridiculous"
and yet in person on the ground it is so charming.
Whereas it's been over 15 years since I was in Santiago and that photo immediately brought back the claustrophobia of living there, with a bullet.
posted by psoas at 1:38 PM on February 24, 2014
and yet in person on the ground it is so charming.
Whereas it's been over 15 years since I was in Santiago and that photo immediately brought back the claustrophobia of living there, with a bullet.
posted by psoas at 1:38 PM on February 24, 2014
#9 is obviously Ankh-Morpok.
posted by glasseyes at 2:23 PM on February 24, 2014 [1 favorite]
posted by glasseyes at 2:23 PM on February 24, 2014 [1 favorite]
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