A neat little tool, Historic Aerials, will show you what the landscape used to look like many years ago. I've been using it lately to see what our freeway system destroyed, especially downtown. There's some incredible stuff. The latest part that I ran into is the most astounding thing I've seen so far. Looking at Brentwood, 1952 looks way too similar to 2009. There isn't too much more development. Even more incredible, 1972 looks EXACTLY like 2009. No changes at all that I can see. The area isn't any denser, no new development, nothing.
This is the square that I was looking at on the website.
Oh by the way, there are about 4,000,000 in the city of Los Angeles today. There were about 2.8 million people in 1972. For this kind of an increase, you would expect some more development. But I guess our politicians think that higher prices are a better option.
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