Posted on 10/07/2010 12:11:32 PM PDT by SeeSharp
Fantastic set of aerial photos from Google Images (by way of Boston.com’s Big Picture), showing Florida’s developmental disaster.
The images of half finished (and barely started) developments are strangely beautiful, with a geometric symmetry that belies the state of human misery these developments represent: Lost deposits, bankruptcy, misallocated capital.
That an entire nation can be so innumerate as to believe in a mathematical fallacy is weirdly fascinating . . .
Great comment!
Many of these look like semiconductor chip layouts.
For the most part the developers forgot to obtain access to water first!
Looks like a great place to run!
So what is this — evidence for unintelligent life on Earth?
Beautiful pics. Bump for later.....C
I think an enterprising businessman could make some money leasing/renting these abandoned developments (when possible) and staging road/rally races on the property.
It would also be a nice way to build a motorsports park on the cheap.
The third picture from the top is not real-estate development. It is a sod grass farm (we have a lot of those down hear and they look really neat from the air). You can see the irrigation channels going North to South.....
Also, one of the photo’s looks like the large real-estate developent in Palm Bay that went bankrupt in the 70’s due to embezzlement - thousands of acres of land cut up into quarter acre lots by the GDC (General Development Corp). Now there are just a few houses because most of the development was sold for investments and the lots are owned by people all over the world - though now they are just full of weeds and broken pavement....
We would find developments like this and have large bonfire parties out in the wilderness.
One weird feature is how many dead ends they have. In Massachusetts (in new developments, anyway) a dead end is not supposed to extend more than a quarter a mile, in order to assure emergency vehicle assess in case of a road is blocked. Some of these seem to be vulnerable to “single point failure”.
In other words no blockage is supposed to isolate any point more than a quarter of a mile away.
Von Daniken, LOL. I read his goofy books in college. The first one was pretty entertaining, but they got progressively crazier until I lost interest.
As for those failed developments, they look like a terrible place to live.
You beat me to it. The Nazca Lines were the first thing I thought of, too.
The ancient drawings of the Defunct Democrat tribe led by Dodd and Frank...
This makes me think of an area right by the freeway off-ramp near my home (if you went straight off the offramp instead of turning left or right, you drove right into it).
It used to be an interesting little dead-end, two-block street. Lots of shade (big trees) and small, relatively older houses. You could tell it was a real community—kids always playing outside and a couple of those homemade “drive slowly, kids playing” signs.
Then one day the houses were all gone and in their place was a dirt lot. About a week later there was a big, beautiful fence along the main street that runs past it, with some impressive sounding name for the development (Shady Oaks or something like that—ironic since they’d taken out all the trees).
That was about three years ago and guess what? It’s still a dirt lot with a big, beautiful fence. I think a few letters from the impressive sounding name sign have dropped off or been taken.
Boy do I miss those lovely little houses, big trees, and kids playing. Lost a nice, little neighborhood and gained a dirt lot.
Waaay before 1970
The Interstate Land Sales Full Disclosure Act of 1968 (ILSFDA or ILSA) was put in place due to land scams in UT and AZ.
Find some photos of cape coral (next to ft.myers) from the early seventies.
They used to fly hundreds of people down from new england for a free weekend in the sun.
Sell them a quarter acre lot. Dollar down, dollar a week.
Hundreds of square miles of streets and canals. The asphalt was one inch thick. The canals were three feet deep.
I thought the same thing.
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