Hey, look at these pics... and tell me what do u think?? (not 56k friendly thread)

[AcesHigh]

*******PAULISTA AVENUE AREA*******

 

[AcesHigh]

*******IBIRAPUERA PARK*******

*******NEAR PACAEMBU AREA****

*******OLD DOWNTOWN AREA****

 

[AcesHigh]

******ANHANGABAU VALLEY AREA****

******SÉ CATHEDRAL******

******SANTA CASA DE MISERICÓRDIA******

******RAPEL IN A BRIDGE********

*****OTAHKE CULTURAL BUILDING ALMOST COMPLETE****

*****ABRIL MEDIA GROUP BUILDING*******

 

[AcesHigh]

****VILA OLIMPIA AREA*******

****NAÇÕES UNIDAS AND BERRINI AREA***

****CIDADE JARDIM AVENUE***

**** MID FARIA LIMA AVENUE***

*****NEW FARIA LIMA****

****Juscelino Kubitschek Avenue***

****BANDEIRANTES HIGHWAY****

****HUGE SHANTYTOWN NEAR BANDEIRANTES HIGHWAY****

 

[Taliesin]

DAMN COOL!!
Where and how did you take those pictures?

 

[opacity]

such cities are exactly the kind i would never want to live in.

 

[ante]

awwwwww
nice pic aces high but god damn it I miss brasil now

 

[Jax]

I agree, opacity..talk about too many people..yuk! I'll pass.

 

[mourningstar]

i agree with opacity and jax: that's probably too much, even if i've always felt comfortable with living in a metropolis.

i do not envy the taxi drivers in that city, with all the names of the streets they're supposed to know

 

[Steve]

They're well done pictures, but I would not want to live in a large city...

 

[AcesHigh]

DAMN COOL!!
Where and how did you take those pictures?

the city is São Paulo, in southeast Brasil. Its the largest and most important city in Brasil (Rio de Janeiro comes 2nd, and Brasilia is the capital). With about 12 million people, its the 3rd largest city in the world, after Tokyo and Mexico City. The metro area is the 5th largest in the world (18 million), after Tokyo, Seoul,Mexico City and New York. But metro areas are very vague and each institute measures metro areas in different ways.

I didnt took the pictures. Edmundo, a fellow forumer from the www.skyscraperpages.com and www.skyscrapercity.com forums rented an helicopter and took 400+ pictures. (he would have taken more, but he lost the 128mb card he was carrying in his pocket).

 

[Lupine Moon]

As many have stated, I wouldn't want to live in such an urbanized area. I'm right smack between DC and Baltimore and just being that close is more than I can stand sometimes. The traffic here is horrendous!
I'm hoping to move up near the Poconos, PA in the next couple of years.

Anyway, great pics! I love aerial photography. Were these taken from a helicopter? There's some very cool architecture on some of those buildings.

Nice work!

 

[Taliesin]

I wouldnt want to live there either, but nonetheless, the pictures have something very fascinating about them.. especially for a german like me.. the only skyscrapers Ive ever seen are the Frankfurter Messeturm and the Bank-Buildings around it

 

[AcesHigh]

Frankfurt is a very cool city. Paris and London also have some decent skylines. I think the best skyline of europe in fact is maybe the one from Istambul.

But no city in the world beats the asian cities in terms of skyscrapers... specially Hong Kong and Shanghai.

 

[ante]

São Paulo kicks ass

 

[rahvin]

there's so many of you who wouldn't want to live there that you're bound to take up all the remaining space, so i choose the metropolis confident that there'll be nobody else there.

 

[ante]

good point rhavin

 

[wullief]

ill stick to the outskirts of my 500k ish population of glasgow thank you very much. WOuldnt mind visiting but staying wouldnt be too good i think. Nice photos though im well impressed.

 

[xenophobe]

Nice pictures, but yeah, that city is just WAY too huge! OMFG! Damn... OMGOMG.... geezus... damn, that's one OMFG LARGE city... OMG....

Wow...

*is amazed, and scared at the same time*

 

[ante]

yeah it IS a big city, alittle bit too big but it looks more compact then it is