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So yeah, I just had some pics lying around, and thought it might be good to share em.

I live near lake ontario, in Burlington, and this is like a 5 minute walk away from my house:

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Well, I am a citizen of the City of Sydney. :P (Well, I live out in the suburban wastelands...)

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Travelling on the train over the bridge, I got some good shots of Luna Park (but not of the Opera House; that's on the opposite side).

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I'm not sure, but I think this was of Central Station.

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The structure outside Central Station, where the bus interchange is located.

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Central Station's clock tower.

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This is Darling Harbour, with part of the skyline in the background.

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Again.

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A tunnel ventilation stack for the Cross-City Tunnel.

I love Photobucket's resize options, they work great for this sort of thing.

I mostly live in wetzlar, germany
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and some parts of the year in Brissago in Switzerland
Brissago (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brissago)
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I envie you Urban - Brissago is gorgeous, but Wetzlar (and surrounding area) is also beautiful!

Wetzlar ist geil <3

I live in Wolfsburg.

"Allersee"
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The Badeland in Wolfsburg has been the biggest swimming pool in Germany and one of the biggest in Europe:
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Our small ice arena (icehockey is not that popular in Germany) :
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Made for only 4500 visitors:
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Soccer stadium "VOLKSWAGEN ARENA":
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Not that popular as well: Malls. This one contains ~100 shops, so it's not that big but it's just right for such a small city (125.000 habitants)
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Some impressions...
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Lake "Schillerteich":
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Unfortunatly you can never get a total view of the city because she's pretty large (not big). Here's a small view of the very north-east:
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The city center (which is not made of skyscrapers in Europe)
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The castle Wolfsburg (wolvescastle) :
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A park near the caslte:
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It's btw one of the oldest buildings in Wolfsburg (built before 1300)

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This is the huge world-famous Volkswagenwerk:
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And the power plant:
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this is where i spend my boring school months, excuse me while i yawn :P

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an ikea just opened near here though, the most exciting news in a WHILE :-[

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and this is where i go for the summer:

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the house is somewhere in the middle of those clusters of apartments
i obviously like rio de janeiro more than boring south florida suburb :thumbsup:
i'll post some more pictures later though :)

This is London, Ontario Canada.  Pop: 350,000 city, 100-150,000 Metro depending on how far you go.

Heres a picture of the city centre looking from the Thames river.
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my school--Patrick Henry HS in roanoke virginia

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Time to show some "rare" pictures from my home city. For those who don't know, Helsinki is capital and largest city of Finland. These pictures are taken by some person and they are no normal tourist photos. All credits go to that guy, who took these. And hotdogs for giving the link :P

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Ruoholahti district in the background.

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Kamppi at night. City of Espoo's skyline can be seen in the background.

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Hietaniemi (Hietsu in Helsinki slang) beach with skyline of Espoo.

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Old, famous covered market near Market Square.

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"Iconical" image of Helsinki. Cruise ship arriving to the city, Lutheran Cathedral dominates the skyline. Pasila TV Tower and Ferris Wheel of Linnanmäki amusement park at right.

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Cathedral. Merihaka & Kalasatama districts in the background.

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One of the reason, why Helsinki does not have real skyscrapers. Merihaka Towers.

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Kallio district with Kallio church.

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Töölönlahti / Töölö Bay

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Looking towards Kallio district from Forum me thinks.

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Morning in the city.

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City Core behind Central Railway Station.

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Some architechture.

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Kolmikulma / Tricorner near Erottaja (Skillnaden, Separator). Embassy of the Republic of Ireland is in the yellow house.

I'll take some pictures myself, when I buy new camera. I promise. And thanks to him, who took those pictures from rooftops. Kiitos.

These pictures are real gems, Bengt! :)
Please extend my thank you to your source as well!

Very familiar views of my hometown for almost two decades (1982-1998)! :thumbsup:

Thanks for showing these Bengt - I like them a lot.  Helsinki looks quite different than I always imagined... I'll have to visit it now  :thumbsup:

those are indeed great pictures krio, helsinki looks like an awesome place to live! one thing that i noticed is that you said some pictures were taken at night, but it looks like it's the middle of the evening :D is that because you only get a few hours of sunlight? anyways, it just confused me :P

Maryville(Pronounced mur'l-vuhl),Rockford(rock-fourd),Alcoa(Al-co-uh),Louisville (lew-is-vil)

the Smoky Mountains are in the distance.

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McGeehe-Tyson Airport, This is actually the airport for nearby Knoxville.

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Local Wild life.

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Best store ever. :D

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and a small tunnel

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Be welcome RippleJet, but why on Earth you moved away  %confuso
sebes: I knew that you had been expecting those tourist pictures from Senate Square, Parliament and others :P
hotdogs: Ah, evening this is or summer night :P I use evening when I mean time between 18-22 ;D It's because I rarely speak English after those hours :P

Here's my neighbourhood. It's called 'Ålidhem' in the city of Umeå, Sweden. Really scenic, eh?  $%Grinno$%

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He Metasmurf - where are the people? Was the ambulance going to get the last one out there?  :P

Ok. It's time for my little town :D. Rybnik has around 140 000 citizens (In Rybnik Coal Area aglomeration ~ 700 000).

Some intresting informations :D :

Rybnik has at most roundabouts in Poland - 24.

Rybnik has the best speedway stadium in Poland

and more more I have not much time :P

See all the picures taken by me :)

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Rybnik localization

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Fountains in Liberty Square

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Day panorama

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Night panorama

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Flowers at Liberty Square

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Quiet Rybnicki Bay

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And during storm

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Another pic from City Center :)

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Thanks, I hope you like it ;) !!

Quote from: sebes on November 05, 2007, 12:00:31 PM
He Metasmurf - where are the people? Was the ambulance going to get the last one out there?  :P

Most of them escaped by foot. Those who were unable to walk had to call in the ambulance to get out of there lol

Quote from: metasmurf on November 15, 2007, 10:55:20 AM
Most of them escaped by foot. Those who were unable to walk had to call in the ambulance to get out of there lol

:thumbsup:

The first two pictures are an unincorporated community in which I live in called Booge pop. 6

The rest of the pics are from Sioux Falls, South Dakota, US.  Sioux Falls is the largest city in South Dakota, here's some stats.

Population = 148,000     metro 223,000
Nickname = "Best Little City in America"
Motto = "Gateway to the Plains"


My Hometown of  Booge

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Sioux Falls

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Old Courthous Museum

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St. Joseph Cathedral

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Falls Park

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Photos of Booge courtesey of Me.
Photos of Sioux Falls courtesey of alot of people.

Hi everybody! :) And now... some pictures from my hometown!  :thumbsup:

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Well, I've been living in Latina for twenty years, but I was actually born in Rome, and I'm currently studying there too... I think Rome doesn't need any presentation, I will only say it has 3,500,000 inhabitants and it's the capital of Italy!  :) The city has been improving a lot and growing faster and faster in the last 6-7 years, thanks to the actual mayor's good work, I must say!  :)

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Here are some more pics (a collage made by me, with photos taken from the web...my thanks go to the authors, whose names I can't remember!): the city, the Coliseum, Castel Sant'Angelo, the Roman Forum and St. Peter's Church!

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And here we come to Latina, the little city about 50 Km from Rome where I live! Latina is the capital of the province of Latina in the region Latium, in central Italy. The city has about 110,000 inhabitants (and as much as 32 roundabouts!!) and is thus the second largest city of the region. It was founded by fascist dictator Mussolini in 1932 under the name Littoria when the area surrounding it, which had been a swamp since antiquity, was drained!

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In the pics you can notice Latina's most curious monument (an airplane installed in the middle of a roundabout!) and the central square of the city, Piazza del Popolo, with the City Hall Tower facing a round big fountain...and, you know, there's a legend about a truck that would be buried underneath, when Mussolini in 1932 unexpectedly announced his visit to inspect the construction works!  :)  A truck had fallen down in the excavations, but there was not enough time to retrieve it before the dictator's arrival, so the excavation was filled up to conceal it, and the truck... is still there nowadays!  :)
Of course, in the dark and stormy nights,  %confuso you can still hear the noise of its engine, the imprisoned truck trying to free itself from down there...!  :P

And here are Latina's sorroundings! The city is located near the sea, and 5 minutes by car from Circeo National Park and its many coastal lakes: the mountain you see in the pictures is named "Circeo", and takes its name after Circe: right here the legendary witch would have withheld the Greek hero Ulysses for many years, preventing him from going back home, like Homerus wrote in his most famous epic poem Odyssea!  "$Deal"$

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And finally, Sardinia (Sardegna, in Italian): this is the exact place I spend my summer vacations in every year... about two months of complete relax!  ::)

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Well, I think that's all for now; hope you've enjoyed the pictures and sorry if they're too many, or too big!  :)

Luca!

The eternal city - beautifull. And the collage that you make realy does the city right  &apls  I was lucky enought to be there a couple of times, and will definately come back. I remember a walk from Sta Maria Magiore to Piazza Spagna via Via delle Quatro Fontane.... bellissima  :thumbsup:

Thank you very much sebes!!  :thumbsup: I'm glad that you liked Italy and Rome, and that you'll definitely come back!  :)
But next time you have to take the train and come visit me in Latina, so I can welcome you and perhaps show you the most hidden (and most wonderful, though left aside by the official touristic tours.. :P) corners of Rome! I'm waiting for you, ok?!  :thumbsup:

Here are some shots I took of the downtown skyline of Austin, Texas. They were taken a couple of weeks ago.

This picture shows the 360 Condominiums that are currently under construction. This and the other shots of it are outdated because they've placed part of the spire on top of the roof already. When completed it'll be the tallest building in Austin. This is just one of the many condominium towers under construction (I think there's like 3 or 4 other tall ones).

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This one is of the 360 Condos (right) and the Monarch (left). The Monarch is an apartment tower, versus 360 which are condos.

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Here is the Austin skyline. Because of where these shots were taken, I couldn't get the entire skyline in, but this could be considered the most important because by 2010 there will be 3 or 4 other tall buildings in this shot.

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This shot shows the Palmer Events Center (white roof in the foreground), one of Austin's two convention centers. The one in the background is the Long Center for the Performing Arts, which will open in March.

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Here's a closer shot of the Monarch and the Seaholm Power Plant, the whitish-gray building in the foreground with the smokestacks. The plant has been closed for some time, but the city is renovating it and converting the plant into a hotel, condos, and shops. Close up the plant looks cool because it's done in an Art Deco style, and there are several signs on it that say "City of Austin Power Plant", which are very Gotham-esque. ;)

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Another shot of downtown Austin's skyline. The glass building to the right is the Frost Bank Tower, which was completed in 2004. The "crown" at the top is its distinguishing feature. Oddly enough, while it's the tallest building now, in 2010 it'll only be the 6th or 7th tallest.

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Hope you enjoyed these pictures!

-- John

My city is rated in the top 20 safest cities in the U.S.  That's  one thing I have to bragg about this city.   It is very nice here, since I am close to San Diego, home of the best weather in the world.  So the weather here is an A+.

I live in Vienna. The following pictures are taken by myself (except the second one).

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View of the Votivkirche from the two-storied tram loop "Schottentor".

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The turning loop. This picture is from Wikipedia.

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Entrance of the underground station "Karlsplatz".

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Karlskirche

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Somewhere in the 1st district ...

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The back side of the Vienna State Opera.

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Municipal tenements in the 13th district.

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Some houses built in the late 19th century, the so-called "Gründerzeit".

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Tram stop "Spittelau".

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Schönbrunn castle.

That will do. ;)

Wollongong Australia

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Thanks

Well the nearest city to me is Nottingham, England.

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Downtown Mishawaka
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Downtown South Bend with Notre Dame
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Notre Dame
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The airport

How long have American Cities been built with grids? You dont find them much in the UK, only Milton Keynes and the new side of Edinburgh. Not sure if there is many other places its been done.

I live in a small town named Myślenice, 20 kilometres south from Cracow, Lesser Poland.

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Nice pics, all.

QuoteHow long have American Cities been built with grids? You dont find them much in the UK, only Milton Keynes and the new side of Edinburgh. Not sure if there is many other places its been done.

Interesting fact: a number of European cities are actually built in a grid. For instance, some parts of Barcelona. It dates back to the Roman Empire... but the whole concept of the grid dates back even further, to Ancient Greece (or possibly even Ancient Babylon).

;)

The grid has been a hallmark of American cities: they were cheap and easy to layout and construct, and most parts of the US are actually quite flat, so there's little in the way of obstacles for roads to follow. It just depends on the situation that it's used in.

I live in a rural area, but the nearest city is Ghent, which I will show here.

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The "Book Tower" (Boekentoren), probably the tallest structure in Ghent, and used as a University Library.

Many people think Omaha, Nebraska is a sleepy small town "somewhere" in middle america.

But with almost 1 million people how can it be confused with such?


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Omaha is a very industrial city.

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Downtown is quite modern however, with three new highrise's over the last few years.

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This includes the tallest building between Denver and Minneapolis

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Here is Omaha's Midtown, where Mutual of Omaha and Kiewit coroporations are HQ'ed

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Downtown peer's over Midtown.

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Photos courtesy of eomahaforums.com, which is a forum dedicated to development in the Omaha metro.

Quote from: jonoboo on May 23, 2008, 05:17:20 AM
How long have American Cities been built with grids? You dont find them much in the UK, only Milton Keynes and the new side of Edinburgh. Not sure if there is many other places its been done.

In addition to SA's comment...

The Northwest Territory (present day Illinois, Indiana, Wisconsin, Ohio, Michigan, and part of Minnesota) were separated into square plots of land (townships) with the Land Ordinance of 1785.  These were then separated further into square and rectangle plots of land.  That has a lot to do with land north of the Ohio River and east of the Mississippi.  Interestingly, if you fly over those Midwestern states, the square plots are very evident as you fly over.  If you go south to Kentucky, and Tennessee, or to the east, there wasn't any particular rhyme or reason for plots of land, other than the topography.  The Midwest is largely flat as a pancake.  The east and south are more hilly and it affected where people could plant crops... so their plots of land were different, too.  Once the farms were turned to towns and the towns cities, they used the already formed plots of land, that, by and large (for most non-Eastern cities) was along gridlike plots.

Another thing to note is that American cities, by and large, are new.  Whereas European cities have been around for hundreds, or thousands of years, U.S. cities are almost entirely less than about 200 years old... with most under about 150, and many under 100 years.  That sets them in the age of the automobile and modern city planning.

And, finally, if you think back to the towns of the Old West (and that era, specifically), towns would have a main street, with some cross streets.  As they expanded, they just did it at right angles, like the main street/side street pattern.

Ok, here's my hometown. (I'm too lazy to make pictures myself, so I use the ones I found in net :P)

I live in Gdynia, one of the youngest cities in Poland. It has one of the most busy seaports in Europe.

I'll start with some overviews: ;D
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Gdynia is part of the Tricity, which also includes Sopot and Gdańsk. Gdynia is the 2nd largest (250k people). It also has its own distinctive achitectural style, which is known as 'Gdynia's Postmodernism'. Here are som examples:
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As you can see, it's rectangle and the half of the oval. :)

More to come later (probably ;D)
Piotr

Quote from: caspervg on August 04, 2008, 08:34:41 AM
I live in a rural area, but the nearest city is Ghent, which I will show here.

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The "Book Tower" (Boekentoren), probably the tallest structure in Ghent, and used as a University Library.

i live there lol

Hello all :)

Here are some pics of my hometown, BRISBANE :)

Brisbane is located in Australia, in the east:
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A200

This is Xalapa, Veracruz, Mexico. Just a few pics of my hometown I hope you like!! Xalapa is the state capital of Veracruz, there are nearly 400,000 people, including me and my family, living in this beautiful city.

Aerial View.
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http://atenasxalapa.nireblog.com/post/2008/04/08/xalapenos-distinguidos

Palacio Municipal. (City Hall)
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http://www.flickr.com/photos/onofre/

Palacio de Gobierno. (State Government Palace)
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http://www.flickr.com/photos/onofre/

Catedral. (Cathedarl)
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Paseo de Xallitic. (Xallitic square)
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http://www.flickr.com/photos/onofre/

Torre Hakim. (Hakim Tower).
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http://www.flickr.com/photos/onofre/

I don't know the name of authors of the following pics.

Paseo de los Lagos. (The Lakes Park).
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Parque Juarez. (Juarez Park)
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Parque Francisco Javier Clavijero. (Francisco Javier Clavijero Park)
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Plaza Lerdo, (Lerdo Square)
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Calle Centro Histórico, (historic core street)
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Edificios Centro Historico, (Historic Core buildings)
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Another one of Xallitic
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I'm currently living in Vadsø, Norway. A small town with a population of 6000 citicens. There's no nearby cities and theres long distances to any neighbour towns, with hours of driving to get anywhere. The closest city from Vadsø is Murmansk, Russia.

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This is where the industry is situated. Some of that is an closed down fishoil factory. Its said to to always spread out an terrible smell. So its not something i miss.

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Part of the fishoil factory.

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The fishoil factory again.

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The ocean is an important factor for the town and many have their work with this.

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The town centre. The Germans burned down all the houses in their retreat from the Russians during the war, so many of the town houses are built during 1946-56.

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The town church.

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The statue you see here are in honour off imigrants. Most people from this town have their origin from either Finland, Russia or are Sami people.

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This picture is taken from fishoil factory looking toward the town centre. The weather can be rather harsh, and summer days dont use to be warmer than +15 celsius.

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Vadsø is situated north of the arctic circle. That would say that there is 2 months during summer where we have sunshine 24 hours a day and complete darkness day and night for 2 months during the winter.

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Complete darkness during winter is maybe not completely correct, as the lights you might see can be rather spectacular.

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The sun will be back in the end of January. First days are only for a few minutes.

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Thats my town. If you ever have the chance to see Vadsø, then please drive safely.

Wow, Q-Tips, that's very interesting. I can't really imagine what it is like to live in such a remote location. I guess the landscape is very beautiful there but isn't it boring sometimes?

That's totally unlike my location, which is far from remote (see the post before Q-Tips). You can say that Vadsø is in the middle of nowhere! I can imagine that you find easily some rest there (which you can hardly find here in the Randstad). And I'd love to see the "auora" (the interresting lights on the third from below picture) in my life.

Best,
Maarten

Here's Lyndonville:

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Looking across Johnson's Creek towards the high school complex.

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This is where I work.

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A look northbound on Main Street.

Behold, Lyndonville's Fourth of July, which is one of the largest in Western New York:

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The Lyndonville Tiger high school band!  Every year, thousands gather in this small village (with nary a traffic signal to be seen) to celebrate America's birthday.

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There's also a craft show on the school grounds.

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Wouldn't you know it, the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra comes every year and puts on a free show!

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And, of course, the real reason everyone stays: the fireworks.

Here's a YouTube link to last year's:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HvpZ15JcxAA

Enjoy!

I live in http://www.rogaska-slatina.si/, http://sl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ob%C4%8Dina_Roga%C5%A1ka_Slatina .

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The nearest city where I go to school is Celje (30km away): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celje
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Our city centre late 1980's:

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I grew up in Grimstad Norway, but I currently live in the outer "suburban" towns of Oslo, our capital and largest city.

Population of the city of Oslo (Oslo county) is around 600.000, the Oslo Metro (Oslo og Omegn) has about 1.100.000 inhabitants.

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,take care

All of this Giant Superblock Under construction and will completed on 2011/2010/2015
except for Central Park will be open at 09/09/2009

Central Park
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Kemang Village ----> Complete at 2010
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St Moritz ----> Mall open at 2011 and entirely built on 2015
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Ritz Carlton already built
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Area 24 at Pancoran, Jakarta ----> completed 2015
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Jakarta Downtown View
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Twillight
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Jakarta From Bayview
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And this is Jakarta Tower will be completed at 2012 and will be the tallest structure in Southern Hemisphere
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So i live in Melbourne, Australia and here are some random pictures I've taken around town...

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Melbourne from the Shrine of Remembrance.

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Flinders Street Station and Eureka Tower

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ACMI at Federation Square

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Financial District

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Yarra's Edge

(Sorry for the size of the last two...)

For some reason it looks like your color pictures are from the 70s/80s. Looks great!