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Old Posted Jul 21, 2018, 10:35 AM
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This went viral on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter this past week with over a million views estimated...…





There were at least 5,000 shares on FB and 15,000 likes on Instagram that I know of. If each share exposes the picture to a few hundred followers, the math says 'million(s)'.

The 2018 picture was captured off the WKRN camera at the City's Adventure Center by an Urban Planet blogger who happens to be somewhat of a celebrity. The 2018 picture was combined with the 2011 picture by another blogger and posted to the Urban Planet page where it was adopted by the celebrity blogger. She posted it on her FB page and boom....it went instantly viral. Even appearing on national news.



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Old Posted Jul 21, 2018, 10:55 AM
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Long Island City, Queens Transformation


2006


Tectonic



2018


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Old Posted Jul 21, 2018, 12:00 PM
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I think my “awards” for the most radical change over the past decade in the U.S. would go to, in no particular order:
Long Island City
Manhattan’s West Side (Hudson Yards)
Austin
Nashville
San Francisco
Midtown Atlanta
Downtown LA
South Lake Union, Seattle
Miami
Honorable mentions: Denver and Milwaukee
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Old Posted Jul 21, 2018, 8:10 PM
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What is so nice about our 'current' boom(lets say last 18 years) is that so much is residential, which I think has more lasting impacts in cities. The 80s and 90s seem to be more office, which is great for daytime population, but doesn't have lasting impacts.

LIC, Nashville, and Austin are so much fun to watch.
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Old Posted Jul 28, 2018, 5:01 AM
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I think my “awards” for the most radical change over the past decade in the U.S. would go to, in no particular order:
Long Island City
Manhattan’s West Side (Hudson Yards)
Austin
Nashville
San Francisco
Midtown Atlanta
Downtown LA
South Lake Union, Seattle
Miami
Honorable mentions: Denver and Milwaukee
I agree with this list, with an additional mention for Jersey City / Hoboken.
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I remember travelling through Minneapolis in the 1970s and seeing the new, then called, IDS building. Back then it looked huge and really out of place in the downtown. Today it fits in very well.
I moved to Minneapolis in 1972 when the IDS Tower was just built, and, at the time, it was touted as the tallest building west of Chicago. At that time, the top floor had an observation deck and a really nice tiered restaurant, but it was given over to office space later on.
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Amazing, they could add every single landmark skyscraper in the world to that site and somehow it would still look like a shopping mall.
I don't get it really, why build a high rise, car centric suburb, and few if any pedestrians or commercial strips/

I was touring Turkey, city by city, and I was amazed how they stick high rises so far outside the city core, almost next to farm land. Living in one of those suburban high rises would have no appeal to me whatsoever.
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Here’s a before and after of the City of London (sorry, but it’s an Instagram link):

https://www.instagram.com/p/BmOJl7YgAvi/


Jason Hawkes has a pretty cool gallery website here: http://stock.jasonhawkes.com/m/-/galleries
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previously:


http://claytonhistorysociety.blogspot.com/

currently:

(missing some tall ones, including the skyscaper the photo was taken from the top of and a bunch of construction behind it):


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Here’s a before and after of the City of London (sorry, but it’s an Instagram link):

https://www.instagram.com/p/BmOJl7YgAvi/


Jason Hawkes has a pretty cool gallery website here: http://stock.jasonhawkes.com/m/-/galleries
I bought his coffee table book when I was there. It's a bit outdated though.
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this before and after comes from the Vista tower thread.

chicago, as seen from the hancock observatory.

just a few changes here and there




1975 (the chicago i was born into)


source: https://cellcode.us/quotes/1975-heights-chicago.html





2019 (the chicago i currently live in)


source: http://www.reddit.com/r/chicago/comm...is_hands_down/
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Chicago looked so depressing in 1975. Yikes.
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I think my “awards” for the most radical change over the past decade in the U.S. would go to, in no particular order:
Long Island City
Manhattan’s West Side (Hudson Yards)
Austin
Nashville
San Francisco
Midtown Atlanta
Downtown LA
South Lake Union, Seattle
Miami
Honorable mentions: Denver and Milwaukee
I'd also add Brooklyn & Jersey City to the list. San Diego skyline has also grown enormously in number of tall buildings, but a 500' height limit keeps it from adding some greater verticality. Not quite a "tabletop" skyline, but trending that way.
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Boston Seaport District 1980s vs. 2018

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This already looks way different from that photo just a year later.
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It’s absolutely incredible what Austin’s skyline has become.

Beautiful
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I know Ithaca is a small city, and can't compete with the skylines shown by the big boys, but quite a bit of change over the decades.


Approx. 1972 at a time when urban renewal demolished over 1/3 of the downtown area:


Photo by C.Handley Smith (deceased)



2019


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6JGNIPF4Fyc
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(Watercolor by James Gilchrist Benton on Amon Carter Museum of American Art)

The Plaza des Armas in front of the former Spanish Governor's Palace and behind the San Fernando Church would have been among the areas Santa Anna would have paraded his troops before storming the Alamo, and it would have not been much different than James Gilchrist Benton's 1852 watercolor above.

Before it was filled by the Victorian-era City Hall in 1891, the relabeled Military Plaza behind the upgrading cathedral was a dustily popular Old West market square locally famed for its "Chili Queens" food stalls:


(Photo by Mary E. Jacobson and hosted by Southern Methodist University Libraries Digital Collections on Flickr, Military Plaza. Market)

Panoramic view, circa 1910, likely taken from the former cupola dome of city hall and looking east over the San Fernando Cathedral:


(Photo from Haines Photo Co. hosted on the Library of Congress, Panoramic View of San Antonio, Texas)

To the right of the cathedral can be seen the dark, Romanesque Revival towers of the landmark Bexar County Courthouse. Both the courthouse and the cathedral directly face the former Plaza de las Islas, today's civic Main Plaza.

Recent similar composite panorama view from Google Earth:


(Imagery from Google Earth)

That imagery is from before 2017, as the tree-filled block at the leftmost edge of the image has today topped-out as a new, mirror-glass Frost Tower. Interesting, in the 1910 panorama can be seen a small building bearing the sign "Frost National Bank" just to the left of the cathedral. It would grow into the larger historicist building seen in the modern panorama, and then grow yet again into the Brutalist tower slab even further left. The new tower will open next year, and City Hall, which grew into the historicist building Frost Bank had left for their Brutalist headquarters, will then follow Frost Bank yet again to move into the Brutalist building Frost is leaving for their new shiny tower.
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Chicago looked so depressing in 1975. Yikes.
yeah, streeterville and rivernorth were a full blown parking lot hellscape back in the 70s.

the loop was still the loop back then, and pretty damn solid, but north of the river......... yikes indeed!

thankfully, we've come a LONG way, as the after picture so clearly shows.




for reference, here's the loop in the 70s. not quite so depressing.


source: http://interactive.wbez.org/curiouscity/willistower/
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