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Yeah it's wild how modern Manhattan looks in the background. I've seen pictures of course but in color/motion it is really striking.

by jgwil2 5y ago

jacquesm 5y ago
Another way of looking at that is how little change a typical city will undergo once it is laid out. This goes for Rome and Amsterdam just as it does for NYC. I was away from Amsterdam for about a decade before coming back there after having lived there before for a stretch of nearly 28 years (with a few longer absences) and what surprised me is how little had changed, and yet, here and there there were buildings that I was pretty sure weren't there before or some familiar landmarks that had gone. Over many decades or even centuries that kind of change will add up, and even though for Amsterdam in particular at some point there was a plan to 'overhaul' it and make it more modern (which fortunately got arrested in the earliest stage, but it did do a lot of damage to the east side of the river Amstel) the vast bulk of the city has been unchanged since decades. What real change there is is expansion wherever there was undeveloped land, but that isn't change insomuch as it is simply growth, what was there before remains. https://viewpointvancouver.ca/2019/10/27/the-1960s-when-the-dutch-imported-american-planners/ https://viewpointvancouver.ca/2019/10/27/the-1960s-when-the-... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expansion_of_Amsterdam_since_the_19th_century https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expansion_of_Amsterdam_since_t... My mom still remembers that just behind the Olympic stadium in Amsterdam there were meadows and cows grazing! (That's now deep inside the city). If you're interested in when buildings in Amsterdam were first constructed you can find that information in: https://www.wozwaardeloket.nl/ https://www.wozwaardeloket.nl/ Just zoom in on the city, click on any building outline on the map and on the right hand side you will find all kinds of interesting information, including the year that ground was broken or the building was formally entered into the registry. This information is not always available but it still contains a wealth of information.

Yeah it's wild how modern Manhattan looks in the background. I've seen pictures of course but in color/motion it is really striking.

by jgwil2 5y ago

Yeah it's wild how modern Manhattan looks in the background. I've seen pictures of course but in color/motion it is really striking.

jacquesm 5y ago

Another way of looking at that is how little change a typical city will undergo once it is laid out. This goes for Rome and Amsterdam just as it does for NYC. I was away from Amsterdam for about a decade before coming back there after having lived there before for a stretch of nearly 28 years (with a few longer absences) and what surprised me is how little had changed, and yet, here and there there were buildings that I was pretty sure weren't there before or some familiar landmarks that had gone. Over many decades or even centuries that kind of change will add up, and even though for Amsterdam in particular at some point there was a plan to 'overhaul' it and make it more modern (which fortunately got arrested in the earliest stage, but it did do a lot of damage to the east side of the river Amstel) the vast bulk of the city has been unchanged since decades. What real change there is is expansion wherever there was undeveloped land, but that isn't change insomuch as it is simply growth, what was there before remains. https://viewpointvancouver.ca/2019/10/27/the-1960s-when-the-dutch-imported-american-planners/ https://viewpointvancouver.ca/2019/10/27/the-1960s-when-the-... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expansion_of_Amsterdam_since_the_19th_century https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expansion_of_Amsterdam_since_t... My mom still remembers that just behind the Olympic stadium in Amsterdam there were meadows and cows grazing! (That's now deep inside the city). If you're interested in when buildings in Amsterdam were first constructed you can find that information in: https://www.wozwaardeloket.nl/ https://www.wozwaardeloket.nl/ Just zoom in on the city, click on any building outline on the map and on the right hand side you will find all kinds of interesting information, including the year that ground was broken or the building was formally entered into the registry. This information is not always available but it still contains a wealth of information.