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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 2013-11-10 15:56, spike wrote:<br>
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So I did, and I came to an intersection they would only identify
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<p class="MsoNormal">переулок Лялин, Moscow, Russia<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Address is approximate</p>
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Googling it leads me to <a
href="https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9B%D1%8F%D0%BB%D0%B8%D0%BD_%D0%BF%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%B5%D1%83%D0%BB%D0%BE%D0%BA">https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9B%D1%8F%D0%BB%D0%B8%D0%BD_%D0%BF%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%B5%D1%83%D0%BB%D0%BE%D0%BA</a>,
which google translate turns into "Lialin lane". Seems to be a nice
street. <br>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Well not really. But it is really cool in
any case to see what Google maps has done. </p>
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It is pretty amazing. I use it in my roleplaying games to get
realistic descriptions of the surroundings ("Across Ben Yehuda from
your cafe there is a burger bar/thai/Subway building with a flat
roof. Suddenly you see the telltale glint from a sniper scope on the
second floor balcony... what do you do?")<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I did have a real question for anyone who
knows from Russia. Where are all the houses? Does everyone
in and around Moscow live in those big apartment buildings?
Do they not have anything analogous to American suburbs?
Where are they?</p>
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Look at
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://maps.google.co.uk/maps?q=moscow&hl=en&ll=55.908148,37.482841&spn=0.003404,0.010568&sll=32.077577,34.768397&sspn=0.001295,0.002642&gl=uk&hnear=Moscow,+gorod+Moskva,+Russia&t=h&z=17">https://maps.google.co.uk/maps?q=moscow&hl=en&ll=55.908148,37.482841&spn=0.003404,0.010568&sll=32.077577,34.768397&sspn=0.001295,0.002642&gl=uk&hnear=Moscow,+gorod+Moskva,+Russia&t=h&z=17</a><br>
- yes, there are suburbs with villas. But most suburbs are of the
big apartment type. <br>
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It is actually quite telling how few villa-suburbs there are in
Russian cities. Looking at Helsinki over in Finland you find lots of
them, like
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://maps.google.co.uk/maps?q=moscow&hl=en&ll=60.244949,24.933985&spn=0.012055,0.042272&sll=32.077577,34.768397&sspn=0.001295,0.002642&gl=uk&hnear=Moscow,+gorod+Moskva,+Russia&t=h&z=15&layer=c&cbll=60.244949,24.933985&panoid=_xWZ5d6hqfcgf6WZ9a-1SQ&cbp=12,0,,0,0">https://maps.google.co.uk/maps?q=moscow&hl=en&ll=60.244949,24.933985&spn=0.012055,0.042272&sll=32.077577,34.768397&sspn=0.001295,0.002642&gl=uk&hnear=Moscow,+gorod+Moskva,+Russia&t=h&z=15&layer=c&cbll=60.244949,24.933985&panoid=_xWZ5d6hqfcgf6WZ9a-1SQ&cbp=12,0,,0,0</a><br>
- a lot of big apartment suburbs too, of course. A sign of the
amount of central planning of the economy, and how much individual
wealth/self-control there was.<br>
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In fact, to me it is hard to tell Helsinki and Stockholm apart if
just shown a random location in the suburbs. Of course, some places
are dear to my heart like the street of my childhood:<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://maps.google.co.uk/maps?q=Hagalundsgatan+11,+Solna,+Sweden&hl=en&ie=UTF8&ll=59.362816,18.008855&spn=0.000774,0.002642&sll=60.24503,24.934373&sspn=0.012055,0.042272&oq=hagalundsgatan+11,+sol&t=h&gl=uk&hnear=Hagalundsgatan+11,+169+65+Solna,+Stockholms+l%C3%A4n,+Sweden&z=19&layer=c&cbll=59.362816,18.008855&panoid=nWiZTJBEpKmqngHhNSzHSw&cbp=12,87.85,,0,-11.7">https://maps.google.co.uk/maps?q=Hagalundsgatan+11,+Solna,+Sweden&hl=en&ie=UTF8&ll=59.362816,18.008855&spn=0.000774,0.002642&sll=60.24503,24.934373&sspn=0.012055,0.042272&oq=hagalundsgatan+11,+sol&t=h&gl=uk&hnear=Hagalundsgatan+11,+169+65+Solna,+Stockholms+l%C3%A4n,+Sweden&z=19&layer=c&cbll=59.362816,18.008855&panoid=nWiZTJBEpKmqngHhNSzHSw&cbp=12,87.85,,0,-11.7</a><br>
(much nicer than it looks, I promise)<br>
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Dr Anders Sandberg
Future of Humanity Institute
Oxford Martin School
Oxford University
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