Others have done it before, but these are my first. The quality is iffy. Dirty windows, and a lack of editing skill.


Some Suckburbs.
http://www.pbase.com/image/64898441.jpg



A couple of blocks in Hazelwood. 12 double houses, 120 detatched houses, and 196 rowhouses.
http://www.pbase.com/image/64898442.jpg


More Hazelwood.
http://www.pbase.com/image/64898443.jpg


Greenfield.
http://www.pbase.com/image/64898444.jpg
http://www.pbase.com/image/64898445.jpg


Greenfield, with South Side in the background.
http://www.pbase.com/image/64898446.jpg


Oakland.
http://www.pbase.com/image/64898447.jpg
http://www.pbase.com/image/64898448.jpg
http://www.pbase.com/image/64898449.jpg
http://www.pbase.com/image/64898450.jpg


Shadyside, near the Oakland border.
http://www.pbase.com/image/64898451.jpg


Oakland, with Shadyside in the foreground.
http://www.pbase.com/image/64898452.jpg


Bloomfield.
http://www.pbase.com/image/64898453.jpg
http://www.pbase.com/image/64898454.jpg


The Strip, with Lawrenceville in the foreground.
http://www.pbase.com/image/64898455.jpg


Liberty Avenue in Lawrenceville.
http://www.pbase.com/image/64898456.jpg

Polish Hill in the foreground, Sugartop above.
http://www.pbase.com/image/64898457.jpg


Polish Hill.
http://www.pbase.com/image/64898458.jpg


Bedford Dwellings housing projects. Hill District.
http://www.pbase.com/image/64898459.jpg


Allegheny River and skyline.
http://www.pbase.com/image/64898460.jpg


The Lower Hill.
http://www.pbase.com/image/64898461.jpg


Downtown.
http://www.pbase.com/image/64898462.jpg
http://www.pbase.com/image/64898463.jpg
http://www.pbase.com/image/64898464.jpg
http://www.pbase.com/image/64898465.jpg
http://www.pbase.com/image/64898466.jpg
http://www.pbase.com/image/64898467.jpg


Mt. Washington.
http://www.pbase.com/image/64898468.jpg
http://www.pbase.com/image/64898469.jpg


The South Side.
http://www.pbase.com/image/64898470.jpg
http://www.pbase.com/image/64898471.jpg
http://www.pbase.com/image/64898472.jpg



Duquesne University and Mercy Hospital.
http://www.pbase.com/image/64898473.jpg
http://www.pbase.com/image/64898474.jpg


Uptown.
http://www.pbase.com/image/64898475.jpg


Oakland and the East End.
http://www.pbase.com/image/64898476.jpg


The South Side.
http://www.pbase.com/image/64898477.jpg


Oakland.
http://www.pbase.com/image/64898478.jpg
http://www.pbase.com/image/64898479.jpg


Soho.
http://www.pbase.com/image/64898480.jpg


Oakland
http://www.pbase.com/image/64898481.jpg


Shadyside
http://www.pbase.com/image/64898483.jpg


Squirrel Hill.
http://www.pbase.com/image/64898484.jpg


Greenfield.
http://www.pbase.com/image/64898485.jpg


Homestead, Pa.
http://www.pbase.com/image/64898486.jpg


Sandcastle water park.
http://www.pbase.com/image/64898487.jpg


Suckburbs.
http://www.pbase.com/image/64898488.jpg

Really impressive pictures! I think Pittsburgh is such a well planned city, specially the downtown area!

Don't you guys think this looks like a miniature Manhattan?
http://www.pbase.com/image/64898474.jpg

AMAZING! How did you get these shots? Do have a pilots license or something?

Very interesting!

Pittsburgh is so pretty

Downtown is a sort of mini-Manhattan. When you're in it, it is very dense and eclectic, with some enormous buildings and lots of small ones as well. And just like Manhattan, you can walk around the corner and the neighborhood changes completely. Many different architectural styles represented. Also, like NY, there's a wealth of classic 1920's banks and other once great financial institutions (walk down 4 Ave) built when style and design were paramount from the sidewalk up to the top, providing wonderful streetscapes. Sun Belt cities may have large collections of 1980's glass boxes that make up a 'skyline', but there's no substance close up. Alas, the immortal words of Gertrude Stein still ring true - 'there's no there there'.

Meant to say also the pic's are really great. Love those aerial shots. How do you get those?

AMAZING! How did you get these shots? Do have a pilots license or something?

I guess I might as well come clean. My real name isn't Herodotus, it's Kal-El. I took these as I was flying to rescue a young virgin from harms way.



Southtowner, Gertrude Stein was actually born here in 1874. Allegheny, Pa., her birthplace, is now Pittsburgh's North Side. The house is still there, and it's a very nice house indeed. Her famous "there's no there there" was in regards to Oakland, California.

:okay: Really nice.

Once again Herodotus, you amaze us.

Very nice, indeed! :)

I need to resume flight training.

Excellent pictures, aerials are always great.

One thing I'll say about Pittsburgh's suburbs - yeah, suburbs can suck. But I remember last Christmas, driving up I-279 (I purposely detoured to go through the city). Obviously seeing that night skyline out of the tunnel will blow your mind, but even the suburbs looked surreal; all lit up perched on the hills and everything. I've never seen such a built-up, yet hilly area before.

All the land bridges too - bet those make construction season really blow around those parts! ;)

Herodotus, that's right. I forgot Gertrude Stein was born in Pittsburgh. And, yes, I recall it was Oakland CA to which she was referring...I just like to use that in general towards boring Sun Belt cities. Also, I really love the Oakland andShadyside pics. Downtown shots can be found rather easily-although yours are different than the usual. But it is good to see the East End neighborhoods, especially Oakland and how it has changed since I was there.

beautiful...

wonderful aerials...great work

is Oakland (the area with the cathedral of learning) a neighborhood in Pittsburgh?

Greats shots herodotus. I love see things from the air since, it's provides a great perspective that we usually don't get to see. Thanks for sharing!

As for the burbs, Pittsburgh does have some older and relatively denser burbs that have main streets etc.

is Oakland (the area with the cathedral of learning) a neighborhood in Pittsburgh?

Yeah it's a neighborhood a couple miles east of the "Golden Triangle" (downtown) and Oakland actually is the third largest business district in the state, after Center City Philly and the Triangle.

It's the home of Pitt, Carnegie Mellon, & Carlow Universities, as well Pitt Medical center and several other hospitals. As such, the neighborhood also has some cultural centers and several research facilities (very little standard corporate office jobs in this area).

Beautiful pictures. I wish I could get in my car and go visit right now. I've always been intrigued with Pittsburgh especially after seeing a show on PBS where they visited a restaurant called The O. What a tremendous amount of personality in those different neighborhoods. I would say too that the skyline in Pittsburgh rivals that of Philadelphia. It certainly seems denser anyway.

Beautiful pictures. I wish I could get in my car and go visit right now. I've always been intrigued with Pittsburgh especially after seeing a show on PBS where they visited a restaurant called The O. What a tremendous amount of personality in those different neighborhoods. I would say too that the skyline in Pittsburgh rivals that of Philadelphia. It certainly seems denser anyway.


Few people today realize that until 1987 Pittsburgh had a much larger and taller skyline than Philadelphia (I had to chuckle when my Philly friend visiting Pittsburgh remarked that Pittsburgh's skyline looked like a "mini-city"). For many years, Philly's skyline was kept squat due to a gentleman's agreement not to top the William Penn statue capping City Hall (which is like 490 ft. or so). The 900 ft. Liberty One shattered that rule in 1987 and was soon followed by a flurry of other talls (The 975 ft. Comcast is under construction right now). Philly doesn't have any tall pre-post-modern skyscrapers to compete with Pittsburgh's in height (such as the art-deco Gulf, neo-gothic Cathedral of Learning, international 3 Mellon, modernist U.S. Steel)... as it's tall skyscrapers have been built exclusively in the post-modern era. The two skylines are still pretty comparable in size (I think both cities still have 9 500 footers, though Comcast will make 10 for Philly).

Nice pictures. I like how many neighborhoods seem detached from other parts of the city, like small towns almost. The suburbs look nice as well.