Aerial Photos

[Cirrus]

This is Klaksvík, the 2nd largest city in the Faroe islands. Quite an unusual place, by the looks of it. These are real pictures, not computer renderings.


Joannes on flickr.


Joannes on flickr.


This is Bergen, Norway:


Aitren on flickr.


This is Monaco:


Frank Kahren on flickr.


Hobart, Tasmania, Australia:

Ghee on flickr.


Antofagasta, Chile:


Leosecpedesm on flickr.

[Cirrus]

These photos of Washington, DC and Virginia are all from NASA.

Downtown Washington, with Virgnia's Crystal City area across the river:


Downtown Washington. The clump of buildings visible in the background near center is Silver Spring, MD:


Virginia's Orange Line Metro corridor, with each station surrounded by a clump of tall buildings.

[Cirrus]

Ocean City, MD:


Lehopper on flickr

Baltimore, MD:

Urbandispute on flickr

[summersm343]

All images from here
http://www.flickr.com/photos/4939487...n/photostream/

[Trantor]

Porto Alegre on a cloudy day

by LucianoRS, posted here http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?t=1530266


Campo Grande, Mato Grosso do Sul state


by FaB!O [..SgO..], posted here http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?t=1531395

Recife, Ceará state
















posted by Raul Lopes at http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?t=1531343

[Dylan Leblanc]

Toronto photos from last week by Steelhead 2010 on Flickr


Toronto by Steelhead 2010, on Flickr


Toronto by Steelhead 2010, on Flickr


Toronto by Steelhead 2010, on Flickr


Toronto by Steelhead 2010, on Flickr


Toronto Downtown by Steelhead 2010, on Flickr


Toronto by Steelhead 2010, on Flickr


Toronto by Steelhead 2010, on Flickr

[Cirrus]

Sao Paulo


flickr user calleballe49

[Trantor]

thanks Cirrus (a proper username for this thread)

the above camera is pointed towards the southwest of Sao Paulo, and is missing the denser areas of old downtown, Paulista Avenue, etc.

anyway, for people to locate themselves.

the big triangular park in the center-right of the photo is Ibirapuera.
https://maps.google.com/maps?q=sao+p...o,+Brazil&z=15


in its upper triangle vertex (poiting up) there is a mass of buildings then a bit to the right a rectangular green area.
https://maps.google.com/maps?q=sao+p...o,+Brazil&z=17


its very distant so we cant notice (at this resolution) the size of the buildings next to that rectangular green area, but here it is the area at GoogleMaps
https://maps.google.com/maps?q=sao+p...o,+Brazil&z=17

this is the area

(posted by Fabio at this SSP thread http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/showthread.php?t=131991)




oh, nice, at that same thread I posted some interesting aerials of São Paulo, by Gerson Ibias

the same Ibirapuera Park, on the top right, seen from another angle (in the almost opposite direction)




Paulista Avenue






Ibirapuera close-up




old downtown

[LFellipe]

Geovanne Angelo

[jens]

Sydney


http://jackkirklandaussie.deviantart...0skyline&qo=15

[LFellipe]

Originally Posted by jens

sydney


http://jackkirklandaussie.deviantart...0skyline&qo=15

wow !!!

[Dylan Leblanc]

yo this thread is for aerial photos not skyline photos!!

[fflint]

Photo by Jerry Ting

[jg6544]

Hard to believe that so much beauty can be crammed into such a small piece of real estate.

[RockMont]

Originally Posted by jg6544

Hard to believe that so much beauty can be crammed into such a small piece of real estate.

One of the reasons, San Francisco is such a fascinating city.

[Paul in S.A TX]

San Francisco has to be the most dense city in the U.S. outside Manhattan.

[Trantor]

Originally Posted by Paul in S.A TX

San Francisco has to be the most dense city in the U.S. outside Manhattan.

the lowrise (4-5 floors?) density is mind boggling

[jg6544]

At one time, San Francisco's "Chinatown" was the most densely populated urban neighborhood in the U.S. Nobody knew exactly what the population was. But in the postwar era, more and more Chinese (children and grandchildren of the first-generation immigrants) began to move to the west side of town and even out into the suburbs. I haven't checked, but I'd say the overall density of SF is probably that of the average of Manhattan, Brooklyn, and Queens.

[Austinlee]

As usual, SF is a showstopper.

[Centropolis]

Originally Posted by jg6544

At one time, San Francisco's "Chinatown" was the most densely populated urban neighborhood in the U.S.

There are a lot of neighborhoods and once-neighborhoods that claim that title for different time periods in the U.S., even in the....gulp, midwest.