Name that futuristic looking city!

[McPerth]

Can anyone name that futuristic looking city? It's the home town of one of the members here. To me, it looks like part of the unfinished Death Star.

Anyone else have any real-life futuristic looking city pictures?

Sorry for the delay, but I didn't see the pic before and I didn't pay attention to the thread afterwards.

What do you find so futuristic in Barcelona?

Perhaps I'm too used to it (I know well the area in the photo living just about 4 streets right of its end...), but the design of this zone (l'Eixample) was done by the end of 19^th century, when the city walls were demolished and the clear area kept for defensive fire pourposes was urbanized.

Cool! So does each block have a green space in the middle? Or some look like just lower elevation buildings in the middle?

Mostly paved courtyards.

THe initial plan was as SpasceBadger says, but in the end is as HG_B says, or just some light industry.

Can you imagine trying to find your way arround those city streets...eeeeek?

After having stared at the Barcelona pic, there should be a rule in urban design that every cluster of n blocks should have at its centre a unique, tall, immediately-distinguishable landmark for reference purposes. ...And a plaque on every block that has the classic map that tells visitors

YOU ARE HERE.

:rofl:

There are immediately-distinguishable landmarks. Some high buildings, but mostly mountains/hills (Monjuich just over the port, Tibidabo at interior and some hills inside the city proper.

Aside from this, most Bus stops and Underground stations have area maps of its neighborhood, and the streets use to have their name in each corner.

 

[Patron Zero]

Great... an airfoil section set vertically.

I hope the architect took into account the lateral forces that will generate in high winds.

Doubtful but that said, we regularly experience straight-line winds and tornadoes generally from early-Spring to late-Fall, one tornado actually confirmed in January recently so let's cross our fingers once the building goes up.

 

[Spinward Scout]

What do you find so futuristic in Barcelona?

It makes me think of the unfinished Death Star in Star Wars: Return of the Jedi. It's just the way it's laid out in the blocks almost like an automated system created it. Or maybe a computer circuit board. I thought it was a very interesting picture.

 

[Fritz_Brown]

What do you find so futuristic in Barcelona?

It looks sorta Blade Runner - very regimented, from the picture they appear to be narrow streets. Plus, it does sorta look like a death star surface.

 

[Blue Ghost]

Here's one;