Skylines of largest Nordic&Baltic cities

[staff]

Originally Posted by Hafnia

CPH & MlM

Nice one!

[vilniusguide]

Originally Posted by Pansori

That's right. In any case Vilnius sucks once it comes to either parks of streets. It's like if it was completely neglected.

This is what I mean by good integration of trees and greenery:

http://farm3.staticflickr.com/2584/3692295336_b383d314c4_o.jpg
IMG_2963 by jo.sau, on Flickr

Or this:
http://i.imgur.com/BH066.jpg

Or this...
http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3650/3495128875_e7f6f27f8a_o.jpg
singapore by jo.sau, on Flickr

And so on...

Vilnius looks miserable in this respect. Especially places outside city center.

Anyway, my apologies for the offtopic. I won't continue on this here.

Your shown view is quite typical, especially outside the Centre in so called "sleeping districts", inside the quarter. Many rare (European and Siberian Larches, Siberian Firs, Colorado Blue Spruces ) and regular trees, bushes are planted there. Districts like Antakalnis, Žvėrynas, Užupis too look rather like forest or resort by the sea, not like a city district. Also, many people create little gardens on their own initiative. It is a rule not only in quarters of cottages, but also almost near every block of flats. They plant lots of flowers, decorative bushes and trees there. People in Vilnius don't mind waiting for the municipality to plant and look after the trees and flowers or registrate all the city trees like in Malmö, they do it themselves.
So we could say, that our municipality don't care about green spaces, but despite this, Vilnius green spaces look just excellent even for Chinese.

A good observation by our Latvian friend:
http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showpo...&postcount=550

Originally Posted by Vecais Sakarnis

Thanks, Vilniusguide, for the info! Btw, the lawn with the flowers in front of that house looks fantastic! A very cosy feeling it gives. I'm not sure I have seen at least one such lawn at commieblock in Riga. Is this an exceptional, or rather common thing in Lithuania (which would attest Lithuanians' very high urban environment culture then)?

http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showpo...&postcount=551

Originally Posted by vilniusguide

You will not see such thing in Naujoji Vilnia or Naujininkai (poor, criminogenic neighbourhoods), but it is common in most other districts of Vilnius
Especially in Žirmūnai, Lazdynai.

For example, in my childhood, I lived in Žirmūnai neighbourhood and there was do-it-yourself fountain, blooming flowers near the house. Inhabitants planted Veitch's Firs, Blue Spruces and Japanese Larch trees there.

I will upload my photos of Vilnius' trees and green spaces in a suitable theme soon.
Sorry for the announcement in not suitable theme. Will wait for skyline photos here and threes in the cities go to the Urban Photo Thread.

[Pansori]

Are you smoking something or what?

[Hafnia]

København




By@Hafnia

[moveteam]

The Carlsberg cluster will be awesome from that view

[Pisling]

Great unusual views there, Hafnia

[Hasse78]

Stockholm south skyline with morning fog


Foto by: David Kernell

[moveteam]

YEAH! Holy crap, that's one magnificent photo.

[dj4life]

Västra Hamnen, Malmö, Sweden


Source

[dj4life]

Originally Posted by Hasse78

Stockholm south skyline with morning fog


Foto by: David Kernell

Wow.

[Xed]

Great shots, Hafnia. And cool Stockholm photo, there, Hasse78.

Here is a couple of photos from Vejle in the Eastern Jutland City Region:





Source: http://sidewalktalk.dk/

[Hafnia]

Different and great, and the sky looks good.

Is that you Xed ?

[Xed]

No no, it is not even my photos. Just stumbled across them, while I was actually searching for something else

[Hasse78]

Originally Posted by dj4life

Västra Hamnen, Malmö, Sweden


Source

I need new glasses. The first millisecond I was looking at this picture I thought it was Sergels torg in Stockholm filled with water.

[dj4life]

Originally Posted by Hasse78

I need new glasses. The first millisecond I was looking at this picture I thought it was Sergels torg in Stockholm filled with water.

Hello-u.. it is a different story.

[Galro]

Suburban Oslo commie skyline. Thought the angle was quite cool even if the buildings themself may not be.
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Solbergliveien – Tveita by Peder Skou, on Flickr

[IceCheese]

How many such buildings would we need to solve the housing crisis?

[Waluigi]

Originally Posted by Hasse78

Stockholm south skyline with morning fog


Foto by: David Kernell

Stockholm reign supreme!

[GlennHGSD]

Originally Posted by IceCheese

How many such buildings would we need to solve the housing crisis?

None, fill all the empty parking lots in the inner city, kill some railyards, build some quarter style area in Grorud, etc, maybe some highrise residentials ( need not mean commies) here and there, and you should most likely solve this...

[dj4life]

Stockholm:

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Stockholm at night, view from Skinnarviksberget by Prolineserver, on panoramio.com

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Stockholm at night, view from Skinnarviksberget by Prolineserver, on panoramio.com