Aerial Pictures of Cities from Around the World

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The thread invites participants to share and discuss aerial pictures of cities from around the world, exploring personal perspectives on various urban landscapes. The scope includes sharing images, expressing opinions about cities, and engaging in light-hearted banter about locations and their characteristics.

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Main Points Raised

  • Some participants express admiration for New York, considering it the greatest city, while others humorously challenge this view.
  • Several users share aerial images of their own cities, including San Luis Obispo (SLO), Cincinnati, Toronto, and Amsterdam, often accompanied by personal anecdotes.
  • There is a discussion about the population rankings of cities, with conflicting claims regarding which city holds the title of the most populated, including Seoul, Mexico City, and Tokyo.
  • Participants share links to various aerial photography resources and express nostalgia for their hometowns.
  • Some users engage in playful banter about their locations and the characteristics of the cities they represent.

Areas of Agreement / Disagreement

Participants generally share a variety of personal opinions and experiences regarding different cities, with no clear consensus on which city is the greatest or most populated. Multiple competing views remain regarding city rankings and personal preferences.

Contextual Notes

Some statements about city populations depend on definitions of city limits versus metropolitan areas, and there are unresolved assumptions about the subjective nature of beauty and city appeal.

Who May Find This Useful

Individuals interested in urban geography, photography, or personal narratives about cities may find this discussion engaging.

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Hi,

I thought I would start a thread where we can post aerial pictures of cities from around the world so we can learn about what is really out there. I only started doing this recently and was amazed at how limited my knowledge of the world was. So I will start off by posting pictures of what I consider the greatest city in the world - New York. Here you go: http://www.skypic.com/newyork.htm
 
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Scientific Method said:
what I consider the greatest city in the world - New York.


I'm sorry, but the irony is far too great to go unquoted. Its beautiful.

I'll go see if i can't find some aerial pictures of SLO.
 
SLO Glory:

http://www.stanford.edu/~dorris/photos/slo1.jpg

PortSanLuis.jpg


http://www.richardsonproperties.com/images/aerial-photo.jpg

BishopPk.jpg


Can you tell which picture are from the rainy season (winter) and the dry season (other)? :biggrin:
 
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tribdog said:
are you the red head waving to the camera?

You're mixing me up with your other girlfriend again. :-p
 
who can tell in those damn habits, which can disappear again anytime now.
 
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tribdog said:
who can tell in those damn habits, which can disappear again anytime now.

Nope, have to keep the habit a bit longer. There's a demon possession thread over in debunking, and I might need my cross. I can't touch it with my bare hands or it burns really badly, so I need the asbestos habit.
 
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Cool, nice pics :) I also have www.keyhole.com - a very nice app provided by Google.
 
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Moonbear said:
Nope, have to keep the habit a bit longer. There's a demon possession thread over in debunking, and I might need my cross. I can't touch it with my bare hands or it burns really badly, so I need the asbestos habit.
I understand. Putting on a nun's uniform is addictive, but try not to make a...um...sigh...try not to make a habit out of it
 
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http://www.geocities.com/rosswattie3/aerial/barcelona.jpg
airplane_view.jpg

Barcelona, where I live
To be more precise, if you divide the inferior image in 10 horizontal stripes, my house is in the lowest stripe, in one of the square blocks of the left of the stripe
 
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Hogtown

Good ol' Toronto!

I live on the water right at the left edge of the pic.

toh2002_195.jpg
 
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Good ol' Toronto!

Very impressive the CN tower
 
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Seoul is the most populated city of the world, with more than 10 millions of persons living there. Asia is the power of the future, people say!
seoul.jpg
 
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meteor said:
Seoul is the most populated city of the world, with more than 10 millions of persons living there. Asia is the power of the future, people say!
seoul.jpg

Sorry, i believe that title goes to Mexico City at some 16 million.
 
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I thought it was tokyo/yokohama @ ~26000000 or something.
 
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fourier jr said:
I thought it was tokyo/yokohama @ ~26000000 or something.

that would be two cities, no?

ONe city, not one metropolitan area.
 
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franznietzsche said:
SLO Glory:

http://www.stanford.edu/~dorris/photos/slo1.jpg

PortSanLuis.jpg


http://www.richardsonproperties.com/images/aerial-photo.jpg

[PLAIN]http://www.sloproperty.com/Images/BishopPk.jpg[/QUOTE][/URL]

HOME!
Isn't it PRETTY?? :smile: I miss SLO Town. :cry:
 
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Where is SLO town, I'm curious? To me it seems like countryside :smile: .
 
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ramollari said:
Where is SLO town, I'm curious? To me it seems like countryside :smile: .

Central California coast, near Pismo. Its about 40,000 people and pretty spread out. And as for countryside...well we are called CowPoly sometimes you know. Very beautiful up here though.
 
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ramollari said:
Where is SLO town, I'm curious? To me it seems like countryside :smile: .
If I'm not mistaken, 'SLO' is San Luis Obispo, California. These lazy slobs won't bother spending the extra 0.4 seconds it takes to say the whole name.

Take a look at SFO ! :wink:

11-6479.jpg
 
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Gokul43201 said:
If I'm not mistaken, 'SLO' is San Luis Obispo, California. These lazy slobs won't bother spending the extra 0.4 seconds it takes to say the whole name.

Take a look at SFO ! :wink:

11-6479.jpg

SFO? San francisco orga...?

And yeah, so we are lazy, after all we're californians living near the beach. Duh.
 
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Colorado Springs. Our downtown skyline might not be quite as impressive as NYC, SFC, but it sure is nice west of town.

We've even got a sense of romance. :blushing:
 

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AMSTERDAM :biggrin:

http://www.bmz.amsterdam.nl/adam/pics/maps/lucht1.jpg
 
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Monique said:
AMSTERDAM :biggrin:

http://www.bmz.amsterdam.nl/adam/pics/maps/lucht1.jpg
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Well if that isn't a nicely laid out radial city. Your civil engineers must not suck.
 
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Detroit, which I miss so much

http://www.doblevych.com/photos/detroit/640x480_detroit_downtown_deroy.jpg
 
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i live north of the city, in the middle of a load of the little patchwork fields!
 

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