The Past of Cities

Cthulhu.Science said:
San Francisco - The embarcadero freeway when new and now gone. -- An article about it - Link
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Ack! There was a ton of those multilevel freeways in San Francisco and across the bay in Oakland. Much of them pancaked in an M 6.9 Earthquake in 1989. This was not a voluntary civic improvement project. It sure looks nicer now; but people died for it.

I was already living 300 miles north, here; but my brother was in school in Berkely and had driven a portion of freeway which collapsed, shortly before the quake.

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I just looked up Chemtrail and Contrail in an online dictionary. It says that Chemtrail is English in origin, Contrail is North American in origin.

However, I'll accede to your request as Chemtrail is associated with wacko conspiracy theorists (which I assure you wasn't my intention) and they are not interchangeable in meaning as Contrails are specifically Water Vapour, while Chentrails could be crop dusting, toilet waste, or whatever they believe it is.
 
Also, I'm being pendantic but if you mean where "Central London" is today then the River Thames was much wider on both sides, most of Lambeth on the south side was a swamp, with the River Effra a delta. However, like that photo, it wasn't tidal. Today it is tidal up to Teddington Lock (and would be further if not for the lock) but it Roman times it was only tidal up to the City of London (which is the reason it was built where it was. Boats travelled up and down on the tide.)
 
Dave said:
I just looked up Chemtrail and Contrail in an online dictionary. It says that Chemtrail is English in origin, Contrail is North American in origin.

However, I'll accede to your request as Chemtrail is associated with wacko conspiracy theorists (which I assure you wasn't my intention) and they are not interchangeable in meaning as Contrails are specifically Water Vapour, while Chentrails could be crop dusting, toilet waste, or whatever they believe it is.
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'Jet Lines' when I was a kid
 
hitmouse said:
Almost every town I have ever lived in (Southampton, Bristol, Cardiff, Swansea) had their old hearts comprehensively bombed out of them in the blitz, and were rebuilt cheaply and often quite badly after the war. Understandable given the lack of funds and the massive reconstruction effort, combined with concrete technology, brutalist fashion, as well as the rise of the motor car. It is really only in the last 25 years that these dull concrete structures have started to be replaced with more interesting town planning. All coinciding with the loss of traditional high street function as we go increasingly on-line for our shopping. Interesting read in the Guardian today.
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I used to live in Hull which was extensively bombed during the First World War. When the war was over they rebuilt. Thirty years later the Luftwaffe flattened the place all over again. Thirty five years after that - when I arrived in the city - there were still great areas that hadn't been rebuilt because everyone was convinced that the Germans were just going to knock it down if they did.
 
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