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Rio de Janeiro, photo via CityDescriber

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Seoul, South Korea

image credit: Maxar and Daily Overview

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image credit: Filip Bogdan, Bucharest, 2007

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A very cold Chicago (2019), processed by Pierre Markuse using Copernicus Sentinel data.

A 195 gigapixel Urban Picture of Shanghai

On this link you can browse around an incredible bird's-eye panorama of Shanghai. The picture has an incredible resolution of 195 gigapixels, which captures tiny details such as people's faces or car plates (ht Lionel Page).

image credit: Billion Pixel Studio

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broadcasting tower, by takashi kitajima

On the road

This blog and my Twitter will be less active in the next few days.

I'm on my way to California to have a few weeks off from work and celebrate. My partner completed her masters degree and I finished my PhD, so that's a good enough reason for us to celebrate. See you next month. 

ps. If you really have nothing else better to read in the meantime, have a look at this wonderful  PhD thesis.

image credit: ?, via @CityDescriber (funny bot by Geoff Boing)

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Organic Kampala, via BlackZinjah

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Barcelona at day and night, by the talented Henry Do (ht Architecture)

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Paris

image credit: ?

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Nova Iguaçu (Brazil). Nova Iguaçu is a municipality in the Metropolitan Area of Rio de Janeiro. The ocean and some of Rio's mountains can be seen in the background of the picture.

source: vonsenke on reddit, HT Vitor Gabriel

Mass housing aerial photography in Mexico

“High Density”, a photo essay by Jorge Taboada addressing the proliferation of large and segregated complexes of social housing in Mexico. Hat tip Yuri Gama

More photos here.

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Petare, Venezuela

credit: via Ricardo Hurtubia‏. I couldn't find who is the author of the photo, though

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Morro da Providência favela, the first favela in Brazil, reflected on a new corporate building in the old port area of Rio de Janeiro.

Photo by Marcos Issa/Argosfoto

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Hisashimichi interchange in the city of Hachioji, in Tokyo Metropolitan Area.  You can see this interchange on OpenStreetMap, here. Thanks Pedro Geaquinto for sharing the OSM link!

photo credit: ?

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The Guardian has published today a short but interesting piece on the uncertain future of dockless bike sharing systems in China. I saw this via Tim Schwanen on his Twitter. The 'urban pictures' below come from this piece. The photographs were taken by Chen Zixiang.

Graveyard of dockless bicycles in China

image credit: Chen Zixiang for the Guardian

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Heli by Brian Willette, Chicago

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Few cities are as photogenic as Barcelona from above #CatalanReferendum

Photo via City Describer

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Stunning construction photos of Zaha Hadid's Leeza SOHO tower, in Beijing. Photo by Satoshi Ohashi. Thanks Jeroen Apers for the pointer

Photo: Satoshi Ohashi

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New York parking lot, 1930 via History in Pics