USA Sprawl Festival, Round 3: Colorado Springs

[Bond James Bond]

Source for all photos in this series is Maps.live.com

Link to the first thread in this series:
USA Sprawl Festival

Or, click on the following links to see just individual cities in that thread:

Kansas City
Some northern Denver suburbs
Albuquerque
Seattle
Las Vegas
Dallas-Fort Worth
Some western & southern Minneapolis suburbs
Orange County, California
Philadelphia
Tucson
Orlando
Northern Virginia/DC
Cleveland
Houston
Northern Atlanta suburbs
Indianapolis
Long Island, New York
Jacksonville
Boston

The 2nd round ones:

Phoenix-East
Phoenix-South
Phoenix-North
Phoenix-West
Portland
Silicon Valley
Los Angeles
San Bernardino County, California
San Diego - south
San Diego - north
Buffalo
Broward County, Florida
Dallas-Fort Worth II
Riverside County, California
Denver - south suburbs
Orange County II
Bergen and Passaic Counties, New Jersey
Milwaukee
Columbus, Ohio
El Paso, with some Juarez
San Antonio
Detroit
Tampa
Cincinnati
East Bay Area, Kollyfornia
Sacramento, Kollyfornia
Memphis
St. Louis
Miami
Orlando II
Denver III - East suburbs
Birmingham, Alabama
Houston II

And the 3rd round ones:

Las Vegas II
Reno, Nevada
Austin, Texas
Oklahoma City
Chicago I - North suburbs
Atlanta II - North suburbs
Dallas III - North suburbs
Palm Springs, California
Seattle - North suburbs

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COLORADO SPRINGS

























New freeway being built. Gotta get all those sprawl-dwellers around town quickly.












Sprawl? Or not?


Cool rock formations










Another cool rock formation








Looks like a megachurch?










Lovely


Notice the abandoned shopping center at the bottom-right. Looks like an old K-Mart






Power plant to light up and heat all those houses

[OakRidge]

Thanks man!!!! I love these threads.

[zauruser]

feel like SimCity 2008

[The Cebuano Exultor]

Originally Posted by Bond James Bond

OMFG! There has got be a point when a plot becomes too big for comfort for an average non-farming family. And, these two pictures illustrate built-up areas that have seriously gone over that point. That's, by far, the sparsest suburban/exurban built-up area I've ever seen.

Those plots are too big...seriously!

Isn't there a limit as to the sparseness of suburban/exurban built-up areas in the U.S. I mean, look at those plots. They friggin' look like "mini-farms"!

[OakRidge]

Isn't there a limit as to the sparseness of suburban/exurban built-up areas in the U.S. I mean, look at those plots. They friggin' look like "mini-farms"!

The United States is a big place and those plots are not really all that large. You have to realize that a goal for many is to own some land.

[christos-greece]

Nice pics! Looks great

[illmatic774]

Bond James Bond, you have to get back to Detroit. The whole metro is covered now, such as the uber rich Oakland County

[Taller, Better]

I'm assuming some of those aerials are taken from semi-rural areas where for obvious reasons the plots of land are going to be bigger. Like has been pointed out before, the USA is huge, and some areas are quite sparsely populated.

[FM 2258]

I seriously don't think there's anything to worry about when it comes to urban sprawl in the United States. We have a lot of land plus people are realizing that they don't want to live so far from town and throw their money away at gasoline. Plus it's a big waste of time to drive more than you really need to by living far far away.

[Bond James Bond]

Originally Posted by illmatic774

Bond James Bond, you have to get back to Detroit. The whole metro is covered now, such as the uber rich Oakland County

I will eventually. But in the meantime, Pittsburgh (at least the southern suburbs thereof) are next.

[mhays]

Originally Posted by FM 2258

I seriously don't think there's anything to worry about when it comes to urban sprawl in the United States. We have a lot of land plus people are realizing that they don't want to live so far from town and throw their money away at gasoline. Plus it's a big waste of time to drive more than you really need to by living far far away.

Yes, we have lots more land to ruin. Ruining it would still be horrible, even without the related issues like global warming, killing off more species, etc.

[-KwK345-]

Originally Posted by The Cebuano Exultor

OMFG! There has got be a point when a plot becomes too big for comfort for an average non-farming family. And, these two pictures illustrate built-up areas that have seriously gone over that point. That's, by far, the sparsest suburban/exurban built-up area I've ever seen.

Those plots are too big...seriously!

Isn't there a limit as to the sparseness of suburban/exurban built-up areas in the U.S. I mean, look at those plots. They friggin' look like "mini-farms"!

I know those plots probably seem huge to you because you're from a very densely populated area, but they're actually not that big, especially the lots in the first pic you quoted. And some people want to live the quite life out in the country. What is so wrong with that? If they want to live out in the country with nature, they should be able to. I know the main reason you proably don't like it is because it can be harmful to the environment, but you can't stop them from living out there just because you disagree with it and wouldn't want to live out there . It wouldn't be fair to them if they couldn't live out there where they wanted to but you could live in an urban area where you wanted.

[chicago]

Those Colorado neighbourhoods looks great from above!