Aerials

These really show how much vacant land Boston has and how much more it could grow!
 
If you don't already know Nick DeWolf's photographs on flickr, take some time and peruse--tens of thousands of great shots of the Boston area (and many others) between the 50s and 80s. Here are some recently posted ones taken out of a plane window in 1977.

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Wow. Kendall Square is brutal in that 3rd pic. Glad to see history is repeating itself in the Seaport.
 
Does anyone have an aerial shots of Boston taken at night?
 
Sometimes I look back at old aerials and think the Pru looked better then. Its simple modernist logic has been totally upended by all the new additions.
 
I'm lazy. What's the black building in the forefront near the Central Artery. This was torn down?? Replaced with 125 High Street?
 
^Isn't it 100 Summer St.? It's still there, it just blends in a bit more with 1 Lincoln, 1 Financial, and the rest of the Financial District towers built afterwards.
 
czsz said:
Sometimes I look back at old aerials and think the Pru looked better then. Its simple modernist logic has been totally upended by all the new additions.
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From an aerial perspective I would agree. What was it like from the ground though? It was changed before I started coming into town on a regular basis, so I don't know.
 
At ground level, the Prudential today is infintely better than it was in the 1970s (when I first saw it). The shopping arcade was open to the elements, windswept, and generally miserable. The whole complex was isolated from the surrounding streets and surrounded by its own 'ring roads'. The pedestrian bridge to Copley Place didn't exist, nor did the indoor connections to the Sheraton and Hynes.
 
It's still not so fun walking down the Huntington Ave. side of the Pru. And the Ring Road still looks distinctly suburban. Why has the cure for these modernist complexes been so tepid, maintaining or repeating so many of their original mistakes?
 
Took these a month ago, forgot to post them

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Where are the beach condos?
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*1 minute later*

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What's the deal with the one dock aligned with the runway?

I assume it has some lights attached for navigation but the others don't seem to.
 
^I think they're part of the Approach Lighting System. Why only two of Logan's runways have them I'm not sure. An uneducated guess is because if the other runways had them it would impede boat traffic.
 
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