How looks like the cities where you live

[Colon™]

Mmmm I’m going to show some tourist pictures anyway, otherwise nobody gets to realise how nice Antwerp really is.

Cathedral of Our Lady



City-hall



Court house currently under construction, designed by Richard Rogers



Cathedral again



Central (railway) Station



First steel-frame building on the European continent



There are plenty more of nice pictures but I wouldn't want to clog up the network.

[JohnT]

Great thread! How do y'all do multiple photos in the same post?

Ixnay: it doesn't look that bad, at least you have nice scenery. Of course, those are photos made in the summer - I think that winters would be sucky, sucky, sucky.

Xarxo: I like that overhead shot of Barcelona (L'Eixample?) - those are modern designs and constructions? Looks like something I'd do with SimCity.

Odd: You got any color shots of SP? Or is it a grimy, industrial hellhole?

Cairo: State College is where my wife was born! She laughed at your modest use of the word "large" to describe Pennsylvanian forests: I've been there and I think "oppressively huge" would be more apt.

Solver: Good shots! Looks like it can get cold though. How many people live there?

Godinex: Costa Rica, eh? I could get used to that. Probably a bit humid. What do y'all use for roofing to make the roofs all red?

Asher: That's one nice looking city!

ADG: I feel your pain.

Siro: Hiafra looks pretty nice! I like a city that has planners smart enough to keep the trees alive.

Anyway, I live in Knoxville, TN, population 300,000 (for the entire county). We have mountains to the north and east/southeast of us and this city has been here for about 200 years (making it a mere child to some of the ones on this thread). Our claim to fame is the 1982 World's Fair, the episode of the Simpson's where Bart, Milhouse, and one other take a road trip to Knoxville, and the University of Tennessee football and basketball teams. The center of town is Neyland Stadium, where 110,000 people congregate 6 Saturdays per year and worship at the feet of the almighty Vols.

[JohnT]

Does your city have a penis right smack downtown?

[JohnT]

Neyland Stadium.

[Colon™]

JohnT, you can only post multiple pictures by using vB code, but you won't be able to load them from your HD as with attachements.

[DanS]

"Does that give the city a somewhat European looks? (bit like Paris or Barcelone but more orderly and modern) High rise never has been very popular around here."

I don't know, since I've never been to Paris or Barcelona. From what little I've seen of Europe (Rome, Florence, Vienna, Munich, Salzburg, Prague, etc.), I wouldn't take any similarities too far.

One thing that is distinctive about "official" Washington versus its European cousins is that it is decidedly masculine. Big, neo-classical federal buildings line the National Mall. Most made of marble and white/light gray stone structures. Sight lines that are miles long. European cities are feminine to me, and masculine structures do not fit in. Consider the Vittorio Emanuelle II monument in Rome.

Maybe it is different in the Northern cities such as Berlin, Paris, London. But just looking at the pictures you've posted, Washington and Antwerp contrast on this point.

[Cairo_East]

Originally posted by Colon

Does that give the city a somewhat European looks? (bit like Paris or Barcelone but more orderly and modern) High rise never has been very popular around here.

Colon, isn't that steel-frame building the oldest modern skyscraper in Europe? I visited Antwerp this time last year and I was really struck by its beauty and cosmopolitan nature. I couldn't walk five steps away from the Meir without running into a ethnic restaurant with great food.

Any place that smells like chocolate and has incredible beer has to rank highly on my list of favorite cities.

Cairo: State College is where my wife was born! She laughed at your modest use of the word "large" to describe Pennsylvanian forests: I've been there and I think "oppressively huge" would be more apt.

It's amazing how fast the forests have grown around here. Most were clear-cut for the iron industry until the 1930's and they are now fully developed forest systems. Some of the oldest forests on the East Coast are located here, with certain properties home to 400-year old forests. It's so dark under the canopies that you feel like you're in Yosemite or the Olympic Mountains!

[Zoid]

Damn, I want to travel Somebody, give me a large bag of cash

[Eli]

Bah.

There are absolutely no pictures of Ashdod on the net. The best I could find is this.

[Sirotnikov]

Originally posted by Eli
Bah.

There are absolutely no pictures of Ashdod on the net. The best I could find is this.

Excellent

[Zkribbler]

Originally posted by JohnT
Does your city have a penis right smack downtown?

Oh man, now I have penis envy!

[Provost Harrison]

Originally posted by Eli
Bah.

There are absolutely no pictures of Ashdod on the net. The best I could find is this.

Well do a Google image search. I can find plenty of pictures of Ashdod

[Colon™]

Cairo, well it was the first building of this size to use a steel frame, so you could say it was the first modern skyscraper on the European continent but that’s a rather pretentious (people from Antwerp are like that ). The Eiffel Tower which, is almost 4 times as tall, is build 4 decades earlier, it just didn’t use a steel frame. The Empire State Building, which is 5 times as tall, is build just one year after it’s little brother in Antwerp was finished. So boasting about this is like the one-eyed pygmy boasting he’s taller than the blind pygmies. (sorry if that sounds convoluted )
It has never even been the tallest tower in Antwerp, the cathedral above is quite a bit taller and a couple of centuries older as well. But it’s just a nice building.

Thanks for the kind words about Antwerp, it’s very nice to hear that.

Dan, I was allduing at the shot you showed of 13-stories tall buildings, I think it could fit in several European cities. That might particularly be the case in Germany, in cities where the centre (including layout) was rebuild from zero after the war and you get similar results.

[Colon™]

Dan, why don’t you take a look at pictures from Antwerp at these pages: (and ignore the odd skyscraper or neo-classical construction)

http://www.2747.com/2747/world/antwe...alei/index.htm
http://www.2747.com/2747/world/antwe...nweg/index.htm
http://www.2747.com/2747/world/antwe...klei/index.htm

[Az]

Originally posted by Eli
Bah.

There are absolutely no pictures of Ashdod on the net. The best I could find is this.

I think that picture describes Ashdod very well.

oh , and together with our "suburbs" ( they aren't really suburbs. They're simply Haifa under local administration. ) we're more than 600,000.

[Hueij]

Nice thread... Good to see where some of you live

Arnhem, The Netherlands... About 150,000 people, capital of the province of Gelderland. The town center was flattened during the (in)famous battle for the bridge and rebuild during the late 40's, 50's and 60's. And since everyone knows how they thought about esthetics during those years... But things are changing, after talking about it for the last 30 years finally they are trying to really rebuild the city center. Only thing is that I probably won't see it finished, it's a 30 year plan

Well, here's that bridge (not the same one tho, Andy's grandfather blew up the original in 1945 )

[Provost Harrison]

Yeah, Hull took a lot of bombing during the war, but the best buildings seem to have been preserved and the rebuilding in the city centre was mainly in the 50s and was done fairly tastefully, so we don't have too many 60s monstrosities compared to other cities, but still more than enough. I mean if you want to see that concrete architecture, look at Birmingham. That city is truly ugly.

[Hueij]

Originally posted by Provost Harrison
Yeah, Hull took a lot of bombing during the war, but the best buildings seem to have been preserved and the rebuilding in the city centre was mainly in the 50s and was done fairly tastefully, so we don't have too many 60s monstrosities compared to other cities, but still more than enough. I mean if you want to see that concrete architecture, look at Birmingham. That city is truly ugly.

I was in Hull during a trip to the Lake District in 1977. We spent a night on the university campus there. Can't remember much of it tho, must be the huge beer glasses you people use

Here's the building that was used as a high school when I was still a brilliant kid with high ideals, in 73-75... After that it was some fancy art gallery and now it's a fancy restaurant

[Provost Harrison]

Originally posted by Hueij

I was in Hull during a trip to the Lake District in 1977. We spent a night on the university campus there. Can't remember much of it tho, must be the huge beer glasses you people use

Hehe, I was born in Hull in 1977 Yeah, to be fair, the city used to look an absolute dump back then from pictures I have seen, but like most British cities, has undergone major redevelopment in the past 10 years or so.

[Ecthy]

Ashdod, Israel






More pics of Ashdod there than of Cottbus

[DanS]

Colon: I definitely see what you mean. If you made the Antwerp streets that you pictured wider and removed the trees, you would have a spitting image of K Street here in DC. Even down to the service streets on the side.

[DanS]

DP

[devilmunchkin]

this is waco, just east of downtown facing Baylor University. Ugly huh?!

[Colon™]

Dan,
”Colon: I definitely see what you mean. If you made the Antwerp streets that you pictured wider and removed the trees, you would have a spitting image of K Street here in DC. Even down to the service streets on the side.”

Antwerp has several of those avenues, set with sycamore trees. (I live on one myself) Despite the traffic, I find them very pleasant to walk in, particularly in the summer. In several avenues the trees in blossom, creating a green ceiling punctured by rays of sunlight, combined with the buildings functioning as walls give the feeling you’re inside a huge hall.

[Provost Harrison]

Looks a dive dm

[Starchild]

It's scary how close some of you guys live to me....

Since Toronto (where my heart is at home) has been covered and I don't want to remind myself that I live in King Township, York Region (pointless urban sprawl that should be burnt down and redesigned from scratch), I'll find some pictures of Felixstowe, the quaint English town where I will be living from late August onwards.

Here we have a night view of the Felixstowe Port, Britain's largest container port and Europe's fourth busiest port. The port itself is owned by a Hong-Kong based company, which led to this explanation of what would happen if the Chinese decided to gain a foothold in the UK by nationalizing the port.... "If there are any Reds under the Hutchison [the Hong Kong company] bed, which is unlikely, it would take a policeman on a bicycle armed with an appropriate Court Order to take any of its English ports back into national control."



Here's a pic showing the town centre at the height of summer. Hides any embarrasing elements (like the locals) rather well, doesn't it?




That's really all the nice pictures I could find. No pictures of the (one) club or of historic sites or of anything remotely interesting. Because there really isn't anything.

I am so going to be spending a lot of time outside Felixstowe.

[Seneca]

I did a thread like this recently, but it only got half the replies. And just for that, I'm not going to post any pictures.