Since Windows Live Local recently added some more cities to its bird's-eye view collection . . . and since I'm bored and also addicted to Windows Live Local
I decided to add some more sprawl pics.
The other thread got really big and I think not everyone wanted to download everything just to see certain cities they were interested in, so I've decided to give each city its own thread for this round.
If you want to see all of the other thread, click here:
USA Sprawl Festival.
Or, click on the following links to see just individual cities in that thread:
Kansas City
Some northern Denver suburbs
Albuquerque
Seattle
Las Vegas
Dallas-Fort Worth
Some western & southern Minneapolis suburbs
Orange County, California
Philadelphia
Tucson
Orlando
Northern Virginia/DC
Cleveland
Houston
Atlanta
Indianapolis
Long Island, New York
Jacksonville
Boston
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I found Phoenix sprawl to be particularly interesting to look at, so I've dedicated not one, but
four threads to it. The combination of sprawl-in-the-desert stuff and the otherwordly oasis-in-the-desert stuff was just so fascinating I got addicted!
Plus the Southwestern architecture looks neat.
East Phoenix
This is mostly in Mesa, maybe some Gilbert, too. So I guess it would really be
southeast Phoenix.
Yes, this is the desert we're in! The miracles of vast engineering projects!
This was
damn cool looking!
Enough to make you snooze.
One of the MANY mobile home parks in Mesa. It looked like about a fifth of the land in Mesa was occupied by mobile home/manufactured housing parks!
Not mobile homes, but "manufactured housing."
I'm getting dizzy.
Older stuff seems to have straighter streets than newer stuff.
Close-up of some fairly dense stuff.
Apartment city.
It's the desert, baby!
New church and new apartments.
There's not enough parking!!! Click to enlarge.
3-car garages. And swimming pools.
Life is great!
Another mobile home park!
A little bit of everything here.
Yes, there are actually a few orange groves left.
Old stuff again. And straighter streets again.
Sprawl? Or not sprawl? At least it's a grid!
New stuff = cul-de-sacs and curved streets.
^
Close-up of the bottom-center of the pic above, just in case you wanted to see what the houses looked like.
Well I guess
some older stuff had cul-de-sacs too.