CityNerd | Top 10 Urban Aqueducts, GeoGuessr Style! Ten Historic Aqueducts Enmeshed in Modern Cities @CityNerd | Uploaded October 2021 | Updated October 2024, 1 hour ago.
This week we explore the scintillating world of historic aqueducts in urban environments. Urbanist discourse is often obsessed with shiny, new things: snazzy transit-oriented multifamily buildings with craft coffee roasters at street level, sleek high speed rail extravaganzas, fresh green paint on a newly poured street -- you name it.
But today we explore something that's not only old, but a completely useless, long-outmoded technology: gravity-powered water conveyance systems. But we're not here to scorn: instead, this video sings the praises of enormous, old, obsolete structures -- they give cities and communities identity, and local businesses (and soccer/football teams!) something to hang their hat on.
So, this is a top ten list of historical urban aqueducts, but it's also a limited argument in favor of historic preservation. Come on a tour around the world and see how these defunct structures thread through some of the great cities.
For bonus fun, we're doing this GeoGuessr-style, showing some streetviews first, before we reveal each of the ten locations. For reference, here are the locations:
10 19.699136662635592, -101.17820644931406
9 38.72981121434713, -9.170421709309023
8 -22.91320894716781, -43.1800179631489
7 40.93677944858084, 24.415470836177203
6 38.92266247452219, -6.335436191456082
5 20.59668824313019, -100.37240632372269
4 41.89092224704421, 12.514825268404094
3 41.878228126981455, 12.572566550029546
2 41.01658580886697, 28.954370429841923
1 40.94798315540199, -4.117890142142611
Resources:
- Formation of Metropolitan Planning Organizations (MPOs) for urbanized areas (over 50,000 people) are required in order to meet federal air quality and other measures by coordinating land use and transportartion policy and investments. More info: transit.dot.gov/regulations-and-guidance/transportation-planning/metropolitan-planning-organization-mpo
- The American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials (AASHTO) Green Book (officially, "A Policy on Geometric Design of Highways and Streets") is the bedrock guidance for roadway designers across the United States. More her
This week we explore the scintillating world of historic aqueducts in urban environments. Urbanist discourse is often obsessed with shiny, new things: snazzy transit-oriented multifamily buildings with craft coffee roasters at street level, sleek high speed rail extravaganzas, fresh green paint on a newly poured street -- you name it.
But today we explore something that's not only old, but a completely useless, long-outmoded technology: gravity-powered water conveyance systems. But we're not here to scorn: instead, this video sings the praises of enormous, old, obsolete structures -- they give cities and communities identity, and local businesses (and soccer/football teams!) something to hang their hat on.
So, this is a top ten list of historical urban aqueducts, but it's also a limited argument in favor of historic preservation. Come on a tour around the world and see how these defunct structures thread through some of the great cities.
For bonus fun, we're doing this GeoGuessr-style, showing some streetviews first, before we reveal each of the ten locations. For reference, here are the locations:
10 19.699136662635592, -101.17820644931406
9 38.72981121434713, -9.170421709309023
8 -22.91320894716781, -43.1800179631489
7 40.93677944858084, 24.415470836177203
6 38.92266247452219, -6.335436191456082
5 20.59668824313019, -100.37240632372269
4 41.89092224704421, 12.514825268404094
3 41.878228126981455, 12.572566550029546
2 41.01658580886697, 28.954370429841923
1 40.94798315540199, -4.117890142142611
Resources:
- Formation of Metropolitan Planning Organizations (MPOs) for urbanized areas (over 50,000 people) are required in order to meet federal air quality and other measures by coordinating land use and transportartion policy and investments. More info: transit.dot.gov/regulations-and-guidance/transportation-planning/metropolitan-planning-organization-mpo
- The American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials (AASHTO) Green Book (officially, "A Policy on Geometric Design of Highways and Streets") is the bedrock guidance for roadway designers across the United States. More her
