Timelapse of Jacksonville - 1984->2012

[coredumped]

Time magazine put together some satellite images in a time lapse. Check out southside. I couldn't link directly to Jacksonville, but here are just 3 frames with dates on the bottom:



You can see other parts of the world (or a better image than my crappy animation  ) by going to http://world.time.com/timelapse/ and clicking "explore the world" on the bottom right.

[spuwho]

The biggest changes I see are all of the distribution centers on the west side, the industrials along the Trout/St Johns and the build up along JTB.

[Jason]

Those are what I noticed as well.  Would be interesting to see the same images for northern St Johns county

[fieldafm]

By far, the biggest change is the low density development throughout the Intracoastal West area.

[Cheshire Cat]

Wouldn't it be interesting to see a color map in time lapse showing how our "development" of Jacksonville has impacted the environment over time with ash and other toxins, not to mention what has been done to poison our waterways?  I bet it is not a pretty picture.   

[fieldafm]

Wouldn't it be interesting to see a color map in time lapse showing how our "development" of Jacksonville has impacted the environment over time with ash

Just by spending entirely too much time combing through Hogans Creek records, it's clear that it would be very hard to document a timeline of the dumping of ash and other toxins like diacin... they didn't keep track of how much garbage the contaminated the soil with (not hard to imagine why) and everyone disputes who the major contaminators are.   

Its also eye opening how many vacant properties in Riverside/Avondale/Murray Hill have serious environmental issues.  It's one thing to have mitigation issues on properties that had previous industrial uses (you certainly expect that)... it's quite another when these properties are along the more residential portions of King/Edgewood/etc.

[Cheshire Cat]

I would agree Mike.  It would be difficult to track all the polluting factors as much of what was done, was done secretly.  Any idea what the source of the toxins on King and Edgewood are?