landscape architecture

SimDubai

• Posted by Rob (#1) on August 13, 2006 08:55 CEST

Being a huge fan of Sim City and urbanity, I also love to see some of the more impressive accomplishments of landscape architecture that can be seen with Google Earth.

Take as example the Sim City-like precision and planning oversight that is being demonstrated in the United Arab Emirates where Dubai is booming.

Huge highways and large traffic corridors are being built the in the desert, nicely ahead of the actual occupancy:

And sometimes Dubai looks exactly like a Sim City screenshot:

Quite amazing. This satellite view almost makes me want to play Sim City right away.

(This is an edited repost of a Skyscraper City thread of mine.)

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