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Pic by R. Braddish:

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[thumper]

Wow, Sydney is one of my favorite world cities.  That last photo is amazing.  I did not realize there was such a skyline there and it appears to be growing too.

[Neo]

One heck of a city!

[Allan]

Wow!  I didn't realize that Sydney had that much density in the city center.  I can't wait to see what the future holds for the city.

[Delta]

LOL I guess the title of the thread has 2 meanings. All except the last were taken from Sydney Tower, which is Sydney's highest structure @ 309m/1014ft from street level.

(Will make new thread after gathering some pics)

[G W North]

Very nice. Does Sydney's CBD have any surface lots, or is every block developed?

[BrandonTO416]

Wonderful pictures. Sydney is a beautiful, wonderful city.

[Delta]

Thanks again people

G W North said:

Very nice. Does Sydney's CBD have any surface lots, or is every block developed?

Not so much as North American ciities have. The few remaining in the traditional Sydney CBD are all earmarked for development.

There's probably just a few more in Melbourne's CBD, but even then not so many.

Pic by R. Braddish:

[Delta]

R.B.:

[Australian1]

Very Very Cool!
I'm moving there in 2013, Oh I can't wait!

[Lance Winslow]

The Recent Satellite Photos show a somewhat severe drought in many place. Australia definitely has their challenges like the rest of the World with droughts. As we increase our populations every new soul will require increased infrastructure efficiency or expanding of the systems of civilization and nothing is more important than that of water supplies and distribution. The flow of clean and fresh water has to do with which way the rivers flow and the weather that delivers the water to the land by way of rain.

Some day we maybe able to control the weather; this will truly be a major accomplishment of mankind in the next decade, but in the meanwhile we must not underestimate the World’s need for water flows. Within the same time period the population of the World will more than double meaning the already stressed third world nations will be beyond crisis. They will need to limit population growth now otherwise there will be continued malnutrition, civil wars, mortality rates, disease, unhealthy water from sewage and death.

If you look at the African Continent there are areas that are not able to sustain the current level of population much less anymore people. Millions dies in the Ethiopia drought of 1984. The West African droughts of 1972, 1975, 1984 and 1985 were blamed on EU factories and sulfur dioxide. If the flow of water is not fixed there it will be replaced by the flow of blood as anarchy sets in due to the shortages of the most basic need to sustain life. This has been debated but the region suffered 20-50% less rainfall during those years on an already stressed situation.

http://news.bbc.co.u...ica/2042856.stm .

In North Korea the droughts of seven years leading up to 2001 nearly sank the country. Australia also had a huge drought; much more critical than anyone was willing to admit. Here are just a few of the industries and problems that the lack of water flow in this drought caused on their flow of products, agriculture, transportation and drinking water.

http://www.abc.net.a...al/drought2002/ .

China has been having some problems on their incredible project on the Yellow River Basin to bring flow to their largest coastal cities. Makes the San Francisco Bay area wonder if they should not try to attempt their own huge project as the Chinese immigrants come in on ships and planes to the region to stay, live and work? San Francisco Reservoir;

http://www.spn.vasace.army.mil/bmvc .

But it is something they had to do to continue. The issues we deal with here are nothing compared to other countries with less land and more people per acre. They have already over stressed to the max. We have been watching the plight of the farmer in this country and fights over populated cities VS the farmer and Industry. These issues are huge and they affect our economy, industries, jobs, food supply and prosperity.

[dgreco]

great pictures, thanks for sharing

[Southron]

Great pictures!  Nice density and skyline.