Your Cities Suburbs

[aleko 0]

Something like this is how my city suburbs looks: (Cali, Colombia)

CIUDAD JARDIN

(Garden city)

Some houses:

Condos

How you can see, many green!!

I take those pictures so I hope you enjoy it!

An now some that I don't take...

[ExiL3 10]

wow, 350.000 and no public transportation, thats one of the reasons why I could never live in the US. I live in a small town in southern Norway with 20.000 inhabitants, and we have good public transportation...

take care,

[SimCityeurocat 0]

Hey UrbanSprawl - I'm jealous of the area that you live in. My wife and I were down on a business trip in the San Antonio and Austin areas and it was a gorgeous area. I noticed the freeways as well when I was down there are very impressive. They look very well maintained and able to flow a lot of traffic through them. The ones here in the Chicago area are all nasty except for the brand new I-355 extension that opened up a few months ago. It won't be long and it will look as bad as all the rest. Winter takes a nasty toll on them.

I want to move back south in the worst way.

[lalo_ec 0]

The main suburb in my city, Quito is Cumbayá.

[Callbat 8]

Ahhh suburbs.........

Can you imagine the most space-wasting, pedestrian unfriendly, poorly planned, petrol wasting, suburb  there is? Well that's almost  a perfect description of where I live. Except it is aesthetically  pleasing to some degree...........

All pictures by me, Ignore the dates, they're incorrect.

View from my home:

Another view from my home:

Looks like a street fair on 3rd Avenue (Chula Vista's de facto Main Street)

And finally a view of one of the "older" streets (hence the larger trees)

[aleko 0]

Which were the last two cities?

[lil-m 0]

Omg Where You Live Is Well Nice. I Live In A Horrible London Sub-Urb Called Chingford. (Its Full Of 1930's Housing)

[lil-m 0]

OMG SAME THAT LOOKS LIKE THE TOWN I LIVE IN ! 

EAST LONDON

BANG BANG

E4

[City2TheMax 3]

Well, I couldn't find any good pictures of the city I'm living in, so I guess I'll stick with Google earth (these are older pictures)

1. This is my neighborhood. The area in red is being developed into town homes (which seem to be selling VERY slowly).

2. Here's my highschool, which is on the Guilford College campus.

3. This is the nearest shopping center to my house. The areas in red have now been fully developed.

4. Finally here's the water tower

[hamsterTK 93]

You know something fascinating, different regions seem to have different suburban architecture and design.

Still it looks extremely odd to me because it looks as if the land just falls into the water with no vegetation on the edges or anything. Here in MA we have trees and no water in your backyard unless you live on a lake. Guess it's just where you live and what your used to.quote>

developments like those tend to be common all along the gulf coast.

Besides aesthetic purposes one reason why those are built is when the land is too low lying and marshy. When the neighborhood is build they dig out the canals and push the dirt up into humps which they build houses on, so they are on higher ground.

The only thing is I have heard that those canal systems often have water quality problems because they are not naturally circulating. Also gators live in them and people's pets mysteriously begin dissapearing.

[wallasey 8]

Suburbs from around Liverpool, UK

Brodie Avenue, Garston: Entering Garston from Mossley Hill, Brodie Avenue (quite possibly named after the great John Brodie, city planner) takes us down to Garston War memorial via Long Lane.

Brodie Avenue was laid out in the mid-1930's and superseded South Mossley Hill Road, they both run in parallel to each other as far as the Garston Recreation Ground.

The housing we see here was built for private purposes, corporation housing from the same era is more likely to be found on Mather Avenue rather than Brodie. As will all of Brodie's great avenues, trees can be found planted down the central reservation as well as down the sides. This has to be one of my favourite routes in South Liverpool and sums up what 1930's suburbia is all about! 

Picton Road, Wavertree:

Attractive red brick can be seen to the right as we continue onward into Wavertree.

Breck Road, Anfield:

I love this building. It stands on the corner of Breck Road and Belmont Road in Anfield and has several decorative features to show off. The best has to be the lion-head terrocotta plates on the upper floors. The bay window on the corner is also a rather eyecatching feature. One hopes this building has more life in it!

Gilman Street/ Walton Breck Road, Anfield: 

The corner of Gilman Street and Walton Breck Road reflects a growing image across the city. Some once thriving thoroughfares have slid continuously into decline with areas like Walton Breck Road turning into scenes of desolation and decay. Officials think that bulldozing these Victorian buildings will put an end to the areas problems. This is a mere fallacy...it just puts off the problem for the next leader of the council to sort out. Anfield is a Victorian Suburb, its no good trying to change that vision. 

Walton Breck Road, Anfield/Everton Border:

Taken from Sleepers Hill and Robson Street, we are on the boundary between Anfield and Everton. The terrace to the right is rich in gothic detailing; the windows being one interesting feature to point out. 

Astor Street, Walton:  

Those living on Astor Street are able to enjoy quiet street surroundings whilst being a stones throw away from County Road, the main shopping district for this area. It is also where frequent bus services run into the City Centre and also out to Aigburth and Bootle. 

All above images and descriptions are from my Flickr account

 

   

[Deever 23]

Oh what the heck...

Baguio city (Philippines), from my observation, is 30% urban and park area and 70% suburb. Don't be surprised to see houses that aren't on flat land, lol.

I already showed this in some other thread (a picture of the burbs through my brother's bedroom window).

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The the next two pictures were taken by my friend when he borrowed my camera. The first is a part of Baguio taken from our college on a rainy day and the second is picture he took of his friends who were overlooking a scenic part of town.

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I'll show more of our burbs later when I have time to go out (like during school which is in a few days).