Housing
Animated Retrospectives of the Day: Watch Iconic Skylines Emerge Before Your Eyes
Corporate real estate data offer unexpectedly riveting views into the past.
It's like watching someone play Sim City on fast forward, but for real cities.
Calgary-based real estate company Cube Cities has put together a series of 3-D animations that offer a mesmerizing look at the development of the modern cityscapes of New York, Chicago, San Francisco, Calgary, and Toronto. The videos overlay developer-reported data on construction dates on 3-D mapping technology from Google Earth. So you can watch, for example, as the 1970s construction boom transforms Toronto.