“BERKELEY Square is turning at this moment into a sort of well, sandwiched in between monster blocks of windows scraping as much of the sky as the by-laws will allow.”
So said the poet John Betjeman in a January 1939 radio broadcast in which he lamented the growing number of high-rise buildings in London.
Now we can watch for ourselves the way great cities have grown upwards through time, using software that creates a virtual historical tour. Called 4D Cities, the software can automatically sort a collection of historical city snapshots into date order. It then constructs an animated 3D…
