April 15, 2014

Time-lapse LA: A century-plus of sprawl

While we’re in time-lapse mode, Greg Vann links us to some beautiful maps of “Sprawl in L.A. from 1877 to 2000, in 36 seconds:”

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Here’s the backstory in Atlantic Cities, along with other maps.

 

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  1. Sprawl is good.

    Humans want space, and a backyard.

    Not everyone wants to live in a highrise or even midrise.

    Sprawl, or lets call is natural residential expansion into more leafy and green suburbs is what happens if a city grows from 100,000 to 10,000,000 people – 100 fold – in a mega city like LA (or Tokyo or London or Paris or Mexico City or Singapore or Bejing or Rio or …)

    Let’s all move back to the caves and eat vegan food !

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