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View Homes across the world seen from up high pictures on Yahoo!. See Homes across the world seen from up high photos and find more pictures in our photo galleries.
This aerial photography gallery shows distinct types of urbanism and is a good portal to introduce a class to suburban landscapes. 
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TED Talks 400 years after Hudson found New York harbor, Eric Sanderson shares how he made a 3D map of Mannahatta's fascinating pre-city ecology of hills, rivers, wildlife -- accurate down to the block -- when Times Square was a wetland and you...
KC: The Manhattan Project created a picture of the area before the development of a city, the way Henry Hudson did during his 1609 exploration. After 10 years (1999-2009), the research project has expanded to study the entire city of New York. The Welikia Project analyzes geography and landscape ecology to discover the original environment and compare it to present day. Scientists have learned that world's largest cities once had a natural landscape of freshwater wetlands and salt marshes, ponds and streams, forests and fields with an equally diverse wildlife community. By focusing on the city's biodiversity of 400 years ago and the modern era, information can be gathered about what has changed, what has remained constant, where the city was done well and where it needs to improve. This source is useful because it allows for the visualization of NYC in a way never seen before. Urban environments, such as NYC, have a landscape largely created by humans, so the skyscrapers, pavement, and mass population is far removed from the landscape it once was.
Find more information about the Welikia Project and more on New York City's urban ecology on this scoop.it topic. Via Kate C
Anthony J. Sanci's curator insight,
October 16, 2018 8:22 AM
a Ted talk presented by Eric Sanderson, of New York City and the before premises and lost area of New York. Basically using different map area of 3D ideas of Manhattans fascinating a pre-city different are of things that come and disappeared. This high definition map also was used for military of the American revolution to see where all the ecological, river, and wildlife is. This has a different observation in looking at the different ecological geography
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The rapid increase in the number of cities home to more than 10 million people will bring huge challenges … and opportunities...
It's not just that more people now live in cities than in the rural countryside (for the first time in human history). It's not just that major cities are growing increasingly more important to the global economy. The rise of the megacities (cities over 10 million inhabitants) is a startling new phenomenon that really is something we've only seen in the last 50 years or so with the expectation that the number of megacities will double in the next 10 to 20 years (currently there are 23). This reorganization of population entails wholesale restructuring of the economic, environmental, cultural and political networks. The urban challenges that we face today are only going to become increasingly important in the future.
Al Picozzi's curator insight,
September 9, 2013 12:06 PM
More and more people are moving to the cities than ever before. As a result I believe there are more megacities on the way. However I think there is a limit to these cities. How are they going to be powered? How are the people going to be fed? Where will they work? how will these cities impact the environment? Where is all the fresh water going to come from? 
Kenny Dominguez's curator insight,
December 12, 2013 12:26 AM
It is a good thing that there is more megacities being created because you can see more people move in which will help the city function better economics wise. When it comes down to the population that is a different story because there is more people to worry and deal with. The increase of people could go both ways because it can be good but at the same time it can go bad because people will start arguing in which it can get physical which means city ratings going down. |
