New York -- before the City | Eric Sanderson

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www.ted.com 400 years after Hudson found New York harbor, Eric Sanderson shares how he made a 3D map of Mannahatta's fascinating pre-city ecology of hills, rivers, wildlife -- accurate down to the block -- when Times Square was a wetland and you couldn't get delivery.
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  • @luismeza9922
    @luismeza99226 жыл бұрын

    I wish I had a time machine, to be able to go back in the past and see how cities were before they were massive...

  • @chops6416

    @chops6416

    5 жыл бұрын

    I'd go back even further and spend a day as the only human on earth. The biodiversity would be mind boggling. Not one piece of litter, every natural rescource untouched, truely the most beautiful planet in existence.

  • @QueenBee-gx4rp

    @QueenBee-gx4rp

    5 жыл бұрын

    Mick Hill And very large animals that think you look like a tasty morsel......

  • @bcad2438

    @bcad2438

    5 жыл бұрын

    So many frogs. They keep you up at night. How is that swamp and pond across the street now City Hall? But that's Manhattan for you, if you wanted less wildlife you would've stayed in Amsterdam.

  • @RC.41

    @RC.41

    5 жыл бұрын

    They were all trees lol

  • @davearonow65

    @davearonow65

    5 жыл бұрын

    @@chops6416 right, because you've seen so many other planets to be able to make that determination.

  • @noahbaxter4576
    @noahbaxter45763 жыл бұрын

    1:16 Bro really pulled out the minecraft paintings

  • @DaysiPerez-rw9xc

    @DaysiPerez-rw9xc

    3 жыл бұрын

    Oh I thought it was just me ... haha so true though

  • @innovatecoin9990

    @innovatecoin9990

    3 жыл бұрын

    It got censored if you see the time stamp it looks different then, so strange

  • @EdouardPicard0224

    @EdouardPicard0224

    3 жыл бұрын

    He pulled a compressed jpg from his floppy disk

  • @diogodavid3557

    @diogodavid3557

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@innovatecoin9990 look at the sky in the time stamp. It's still pixelated images, you jsut can't notice that very well because of the size and compression

  • @blankblank5409

    @blankblank5409

    3 жыл бұрын

    0:40

  • @bluedancelilly
    @bluedancelilly5 жыл бұрын

    Would be interesting to post some signs around NYC showing pictures of what the area looked like 500 years ago. A few select.locations and intersections around the city. People would find it very interesting. Could generate some buzz and help promote more environmental consciousness (ie. recycling) which is lacking in the city.

  • @sajithamk1065

    @sajithamk1065

    5 жыл бұрын

    That's great

  • @spanishstudiolanguagecente4751

    @spanishstudiolanguagecente4751

    5 жыл бұрын

    pictures from 500 years ago?

  • @sabatino1977

    @sabatino1977

    5 жыл бұрын

    @@spanishstudiolanguagecente4751 - no, pictures of what the area looked like is not the same as a photo from 500 years ago.

  • @ant697

    @ant697

    5 жыл бұрын

    Great idea 👍

  • @peekaboo3968

    @peekaboo3968

    5 жыл бұрын

    They do this If u look everywhere is a landmark

  • @Rickyrab
    @Rickyrab6 жыл бұрын

    If NYC weren't a city it could've been the site of a great national Park.

  • @hanoitripper1809

    @hanoitripper1809

    5 жыл бұрын

    It can be reverted

  • @rubina1868

    @rubina1868

    5 жыл бұрын

    Richard Rabinowitz yeah instead we have two gigantic airports on migratory paths

  • @rubina1868

    @rubina1868

    5 жыл бұрын

    Hanoi Tripper how???

  • @tracydrennan3296

    @tracydrennan3296

    5 жыл бұрын

    Hanoi Tripper Because I love agenda 21 and human bondage .

  • @miscsb

    @miscsb

    5 жыл бұрын

    @@hanoitripper1809 lmao don't worry that's covered by north korea

  • @davidbarfield3489
    @davidbarfield34895 жыл бұрын

    The Dutch claimed it was the best natural harbor they've ever seen.

  • @garyp3472

    @garyp3472

    4 жыл бұрын

    Texas Guy that sure beats the internet. Count me in if you wanna jump in a hot tub and see what happens. And don’t go getting any funny ideas, I do not believe in time travel.

  • @garyp3472

    @garyp3472

    4 жыл бұрын

    And the Dutch say that about every natural harbour. For 150 years every Dutch captains log book was half filled with joyous exclamations upon each new and weirdly, each already known natural harbour. Most every Dutch sailor learned to write or paid a shipmate so he could bore to teens loved ones with excited news of the latest natural harbour they came upon. In Dutch homes it would take well into the 19th century before people stopped letting mail pile to overflowing in the mailbox until the day before their loved one was due back when they would spend a mad 24 hours reading them all. People always ask, in times of such slow communication and unreliable schedules to say the least, how could anyone know within 24 hours when their loved ones came back. Truth is after hundreds of letters with no money but multiple pages on natural harbour they didn’t much care.

  • @the4thindustrialrevolution225

    @the4thindustrialrevolution225

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@garyp3472 what the fack are you talking about

  • @joeyzwier

    @joeyzwier

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@the4thindustrialrevolution225 Drugs

  • @madyjules

    @madyjules

    4 жыл бұрын

    Amerigo Vespucci said the same and he predated the arrival of the Dutch by several decades. Vespucci also admired the beauty and fertility of the land and wrote respectfully of the Lenape people living there. How different Vespucci was from the horrible and cruel Columbus. I am Italian -> ever since I read a well-researched and thorough biography of Columbus I have been horrified and deeply ashamed that he is so honored in America. 😞He does not deserve any honor! He was a buffoon; thought he reached India!!

  • @yllenhoj
    @yllenhoj3 жыл бұрын

    Growing up in the 60s and 70s in southeastern Queens, my friends and I played often in the salt marshes near JFK airport. For miles , nothing but swamp and tidal creeks. We explored much of it on foot and by canoe. And the Manhattan skyline was just a few miles away.

  • @jordank5957
    @jordank59575 жыл бұрын

    Sometimes I wish I could have a time machine to go back and see these type of things

  • @marb3909
    @marb3909 Жыл бұрын

    Whenever I walk around the city, it’s always a trip to think that centuries ago it looked nothing like this and that everything I see had to be built over the years. Especially walking around lower Manhattan because I know the street pattern is basically as old as the city itself so these streets have basically seen the entire growth of the city from when it was a village with dirt trails to how it is now

  • @YouCanCallMeReTro

    @YouCanCallMeReTro

    9 ай бұрын

    Its funny you say that because I do the same when I visit the city (in this case boston), but I feel like those who live in the city don't really think of it because for them everything there is just part of their day-to-day commutes or whatever else. You kind of have to take a step back to appreciate it.

  • @nickbanks1034
    @nickbanks10343 жыл бұрын

    I've always been in awe of the idea of what the US looked like before European settlers. How otherworldly it must have felt. For example in the state of Indiana...the climate used to be similar to Canada. The entire state was covered by a glacier for thousands of years which then melted away into a huge forest expanding the entire midwest full of evergreens and deciduous trees. Moose, wolves, bears, elk, deer, mountain lions, etc etc used to roam freely and in abundance. Trees 400-500 years old were commonplace. It was almost completely wiped out of trees by the 1800's. The wildlife was driven out and had to be slowly introduced back. Its a sad reality

  • @shinkibigami9

    @shinkibigami9

    8 ай бұрын

    Yup the whole thing was like east of Bloomington, Indiana trees, rolling hills and water

  • @LB-uo7xy

    @LB-uo7xy

    5 ай бұрын

    Didn't YOUR PEOPLE do that?

  • @218maryland
    @218maryland4 жыл бұрын

    This is one of the most interesting videos i have ever watched on youtube

  • @benparker384

    @benparker384

    3 жыл бұрын

    you should check out the elevator video from One World Trade. seeing it in person is awesome but its also on youtube

  • @218maryland

    @218maryland

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@benparker384 I will check this out!

  • @Adam-rm5cm

    @Adam-rm5cm

    3 жыл бұрын

    totally

  • @eagander

    @eagander

    Жыл бұрын

    @@benparker384 YES!! Was there last fall. Fascinating ride up to the top (or down).

  • @matthewmann8969
    @matthewmann89693 жыл бұрын

    Manhattan, Brooklyn, The Bronx, Queens, And Statan Island are all amazing in there own ways

  • @suef.5322
    @suef.53227 жыл бұрын

    Excellent and awe inspiring!! Thank you Eric Sanderson.

  • @MiranUT
    @MiranUT14 жыл бұрын

    Let me help you imagine: I work in Tokyo. I ride my bicycle (or jump on a bus if it's raining) to the train station. I park my bike in an efficient, city-sponsored underground garage right next to the station. It costs 100 yen (90 cents) a day and is free on Sundays and holidays. On my days off, it's not unusually for me to ride my bicycle 30 or 40 minutes to my desired destination. A favorite route is along a river bike path. I've never owned a car. It's possible - and fun.

  • @zacotb

    @zacotb

    7 жыл бұрын

    I just chill at the grassy hills in yoyogi park.

  • @Juleye

    @Juleye

    6 жыл бұрын

    I live in Sacramento, California. For the past year and a half, I've ridden to college which is about a 20 minute ride on a bicycle. For me the problem though is that often here in Sacramento it reaches 100 degrees fahrenheit and is even more often up in the 90s for a good half of the year which makes riding a bicycle not only uncomfortable but actually unhealthy. I would love to ride my bike year round but for 5 or 6 months it's just too hot.

  • @appimoefi4519

    @appimoefi4519

    6 жыл бұрын

    Belgium

  • @xSpArTaNGoDzx

    @xSpArTaNGoDzx

    6 жыл бұрын

    DEATH GRIIIIPS

  • @jeeveey

    @jeeveey

    6 жыл бұрын

    Crime in America is much more prevalent then in Tokyo though

  • @mmedefarge
    @mmedefarge14 жыл бұрын

    There already exists a map of the natural topography of all Manhattan called the Viele map of 1865. It also included all the changes to the land made since Europeans first set foot on Manhattan island. It is still used by builders today. Also, lower Manhattan was primarily used as a summer hunting ground for the Leni Lenape. There permanent settlement was up in Inwood, where there are many protective caves.

  • @eagander

    @eagander

    Жыл бұрын

    Thanks for the resource.

  • @SuAva
    @SuAva6 жыл бұрын

    Amazing. Much respect to all of the people working on these kinds of projects.

  • @jiyounglee2571
    @jiyounglee257111 жыл бұрын

    Eric Anderson talked about pictures New York's natural history. I was interested in New York , so I was impressed to listen to this lecture. He said “we need a future that has the same diversity and abundance and dynamism of Manhattan.” Someday, I eager to visit New York!

  • @geepadoodle3573

    @geepadoodle3573

    Жыл бұрын

    Did you visit yet?

  • @kr63
    @kr635 жыл бұрын

    What a beautiful place. NY is just as diverse today with people.

  • @j.mclouth4968
    @j.mclouth49683 жыл бұрын

    I absolutely love this mans work! Phenomenal job, I wish he was in charge of our environmental procedures in the U.S.

  • @rebekahcuriel-alessi2239

    @rebekahcuriel-alessi2239

    3 жыл бұрын

    Aach. Me too!!🌿

  • @brento2890
    @brento28906 жыл бұрын

    I agree. We need to grow while still allowing the natural earth to exist.

  • @bennyboiart7781

    @bennyboiart7781

    5 жыл бұрын

    Brent Ten FIRST comment I’ve found with an opinion other than, “We should destroy NYC,” or, “Eh, nature’s dumb anyway.” Btw, I wholeheartedly agree with you.

  • @randomuploadsism

    @randomuploadsism

    3 жыл бұрын

    We don't need to grow though.

  • @Fatavocado88
    @Fatavocado882 жыл бұрын

    This is amazing. The work and research that went into recreating New York. More cities should need this. Thank you!

  • @robert10197
    @robert101976 жыл бұрын

    I appreciate this type of stuff so much... it's incredible to see what was, and what now is...

  • @dianaallaham2801
    @dianaallaham28013 жыл бұрын

    There’s an amazing clip in the movie ‘Lucy’ that shows a time-lapse of I think New York from what it is now and back to the dinosaur age

  • @duasyed6116

    @duasyed6116

    3 жыл бұрын

    Yes!! believe it or not, I actually came here from that scene. I was so mesmerized by it...

  • @Staboogie777

    @Staboogie777

    3 жыл бұрын

    Ha! I was going to say the same thing!

  • @Staboogie777

    @Staboogie777

    3 жыл бұрын

    Devs is on Netflix, they also show some really cool scenes of history! Jesus on the cross, cavemen it’s really good show too.

  • @slavicastepanovic259
    @slavicastepanovic2593 жыл бұрын

    Great team work! Thank you. This should be done around the globe for all of us to see what impact on nature do we have now and what should we do.

  • @smithmcsmith9218
    @smithmcsmith92186 жыл бұрын

    This is so amazing I wish I could see this for places all over the world.

  • @ianerixon
    @ianerixon5 жыл бұрын

    I always thought that cool 50/50 split of present Manhattan and natural manhattan was just a clever photoshop of a generic tree line composited onto present day. Awesome to learn how much effort and passion actually went into this whole project to truly discover the island as it was.

  • @chicaloca5307
    @chicaloca53075 жыл бұрын

    This was very interesting. It actually made me sad in a way that all that beautiful nature what once was is lost now.

  • @jillianfaith5172
    @jillianfaith51724 жыл бұрын

    I'm a native New Yorker, born in Queens. I moved to North Carolina as a kid, but have always had a deep love and appreciation for the place I was born. As an artist, specifically landscape, I have always wondered what present day NYC looked like hundreds of years ago. I've done lots of research but still feel there is a lack of information. This is a great video!!! Well done!! 👍

  • @Man-in-the-green

    @Man-in-the-green

    3 жыл бұрын

    See Russel Shorto’s book...

  • @puviyarasu_
    @puviyarasu_9 ай бұрын

    I am so glad I got this video on my feed. This gives such a unique perspective on how cities came to be how they are now

  • @mariecolette9066
    @mariecolette90662 жыл бұрын

    This is fascinating. Reminds me of a school trip they took us to Inwood Park at the top of Manhattan, the last wild area never developed. They showed us caves where the Indians lived, listed all the animals that once lived here. Just amazing i never thought of my city like that

  • @jamesr1703
    @jamesr17034 жыл бұрын

    I don't know how any nature loving human being could live in NYC or any city like it for that matter. Central Park is not enough. I'll take living on the shores of Lake Michigan as I do now. Nature is healing, replenishing and calming.

  • @e4t662

    @e4t662

    4 жыл бұрын

    Absolutely right.

  • @rebekahcuriel-alessi2239
    @rebekahcuriel-alessi22393 жыл бұрын

    This was, frankly, unbelievably stunning. Thank you thank you thank you!!!🌞🌿🏞️🌲🌳🌴🏣🏢

  • @sumantkumar9262
    @sumantkumar92624 жыл бұрын

    We need more of such research and more involvement of people (giving them meaning to live). Love from Muzaffarpur, Bihar, India.

  • @scangazi
    @scangazi3 жыл бұрын

    wow. what did I just watch? somebody give this man a nobel prize or something

  • @strafrag1
    @strafrag17 жыл бұрын

    A super project. Thank you.

  • @ezrabeyman3196
    @ezrabeyman31964 жыл бұрын

    I absolutely love the history of this great city. Thanks for sharing!

  • @pradeepnaidu987
    @pradeepnaidu9874 жыл бұрын

    This is what i call , a real TED talk !!

  • @Siglojunior
    @Siglojunior13 жыл бұрын

    Thanks for the gratefulness that we founded New York... Greetz from the Netherlands

  • @sonnylatchstring

    @sonnylatchstring

    6 жыл бұрын

    Then you started the decay

  • @kabatake

    @kabatake

    6 жыл бұрын

    NYC was not founded by anyone; finding something assumes that it did not exist. there were people who lived there before it was "founded"

  • @bartobruintjes7056

    @bartobruintjes7056

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@kabatake No Kwak. Otherwise all the city's on this earth never have been founded so they don't exist.

  • @godofthisshit

    @godofthisshit

    3 жыл бұрын

    @Rinderend A Black Dominican actually.

  • @Man-in-the-green

    @Man-in-the-green

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@kabatake New Amsterdam was founded by Peter Stuyvesant.

  • @bennyboiart7781
    @bennyboiart77815 жыл бұрын

    For everyone saying, “NYC sucks, cities suck, humans suck,” just keep in mind that without the creation of permanent settlements we wouldn’t have the modern conveniences that we enjoy, such as indoor heating/cooling, plumbing and electricity. Just saying.🤷🏻‍♂️

  • @tickingtimebomb4139

    @tickingtimebomb4139

    5 жыл бұрын

    True

  • @chops6416

    @chops6416

    5 жыл бұрын

    No doubt about it, the current crop of humans suck

  • @kenmcnutt2

    @kenmcnutt2

    4 жыл бұрын

    Permanent settlements resulted from agriculture. Before then, a hunting-gathering society shared their resources in order to survive. Agriculture allowed division of labor which resulted in the first unequal division of resources. Now we have 500 billionaires and 500,000 homeless people, but the life of the average person is more "convenient". I'm hoping we figure out a way to evolve society to something that's a little more logical.

  • @chops6416

    @chops6416

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@kenmcnutt2 keep the population no more than 1 billion. Sorted

  • @kenmcnutt2

    @kenmcnutt2

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@chops6416 That's one solution, just not the one I had in mind. How would you decide which billion to save?

  • @arcturussirius7139
    @arcturussirius71396 жыл бұрын

    Bikes run on fat and save you money. Cars run on money and make you fat.

  • @wolfpak8228

    @wolfpak8228

    6 жыл бұрын

    Arcturus Sirius - so you walk and I'll drive, fat and happy

  • @RedbadvanRijn-ft3vv

    @RedbadvanRijn-ft3vv

    5 жыл бұрын

    @@wolfpak8228 As a real car guy.i take the bike to the center of a city. I wil see you turning rounds in the center,to find a parking place. While i am ready,and drinking a coffee on a terras.

  • @darkwoodmovies

    @darkwoodmovies

    4 жыл бұрын

    Ford and GM ruined the American city by congesting them with smelly, dangerous cars, removed public transit, and created the abomination that is the modern suburb.

  • @fntime

    @fntime

    4 жыл бұрын

    Only problem is that bike riders are weird and for the most part are assholes.

  • @CaliforniaGuy88

    @CaliforniaGuy88

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@darkwoodmovies Agreed we should be way more dense and walkable.

  • @whatevtube
    @whatevtube14 жыл бұрын

    Well done, a true visualization of the network of nature.

  • @leekovalskyj9218
    @leekovalskyj92185 жыл бұрын

    Important work, and wonderful presentation. This affords New Yorkers more of a 'sense of place' than that available to any other non-Indigenous inhabitants of North or South America.

  • @JoseMartinez-df2db
    @JoseMartinez-df2db6 жыл бұрын

    Please do this project for Chicago and including the settlements of the Miami, Algonquin, Potawatomi and Milwaukee.

  • @inkyguy

    @inkyguy

    5 жыл бұрын

    Jose Martinez, and Los Angeles County.

  • @robertb1893

    @robertb1893

    5 жыл бұрын

    That's not as interesting because those haven't been as terraformed as manhattan.

  • @michaelcarroll5170

    @michaelcarroll5170

    5 жыл бұрын

    xcrunner trackrunner well Chicago used to be a wetland. Same as Milwaukee.

  • @Lioness_Es

    @Lioness_Es

    5 жыл бұрын

    If everyone up and left LA it would revert back to be the large, sprawling desert it once was.

  • @calebhightower6676

    @calebhightower6676

    5 жыл бұрын

    And Atlanta as well.

  • @benmossad2073
    @benmossad20735 жыл бұрын

    WOW, just WOW, GREAT material !!!

  • @eduardorojas5873
    @eduardorojas58733 жыл бұрын

    This is the coolest thing I have seen for a better NYC and world. Awesome!!

  • @covenantoflegions6825
    @covenantoflegions68256 жыл бұрын

    Woah! Ive never liked much in school but this was really interesting!

  • @benjamin_markus
    @benjamin_markus6 жыл бұрын

    the 'frogs, birds, bees, fish, beavers, bears and indians' moment killed me :DDD

  • @drmarkaron

    @drmarkaron

    6 жыл бұрын

    came here looking for this!:)) It killed me too.

  • @hemiedwards217

    @hemiedwards217

    6 жыл бұрын

    I noted that too.

  • @p0llenp0ny

    @p0llenp0ny

    5 жыл бұрын

    @Sabrina Dugan Found the communist.

  • @shamicentertainment1262

    @shamicentertainment1262

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@p0llenp0ny environmentalist more like.

  • @aerofpv2109
    @aerofpv21096 жыл бұрын

    Great insight but I wished for a link to your website Mr. Anderson, which you mentioned toward the end. I would like to see your overlay maps as discussed. I only see TED links.

  • @catchison8671
    @catchison86719 ай бұрын

    This is amazing!! Thank you for sharing this informational video!!☺️👏🏼

  • @mmedefarge
    @mmedefarge14 жыл бұрын

    Where I live, all new high risers have to be green buildings. The entire skins of these buildings are solar collectors, they treat their own waste & reuse water for cooling & heating. These buildings are giant solar collectors which put all unused energy collected back into the electric grid. Using a panoply of renewable energy sources, wind, solar, algae, hydrogen fuels could virtually eliminate the impact of the internal combustion engine & greatly lessen the need for polluting energy plants

  • @Rank1Artist

    @Rank1Artist

    3 жыл бұрын

    10 years ago?

  • @mmedefarge

    @mmedefarge

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@Rank1Artist Longer than that.

  • @Rank1Artist

    @Rank1Artist

    3 жыл бұрын

    MmeDefarge (Expose NYC Meth Labs) bruh you responded after 10 years

  • @mmedefarge

    @mmedefarge

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@Rank1Artist My original post was from about the same time the vid came out....and you responded to it 10 yrs. later. So what?

  • @Rank1Artist

    @Rank1Artist

    3 жыл бұрын

    MmeDefarge (Expose NYC Meth Labs) that’s a real long time ago, I just don’t think I’ve ever seen a YT comment this old

  • @kekoproduction4439
    @kekoproduction44397 жыл бұрын

    England is the biggest city in America

  • @Bandstand

    @Bandstand

    7 жыл бұрын

    This meme has no bounds. It's in every video haha

  • @burnsmybritches5857

    @burnsmybritches5857

    6 жыл бұрын

    KEKO Production England was. Now Mexico is the biggest city in the U.S. now.

  • @AS-zr6iw

    @AS-zr6iw

    6 жыл бұрын

    KEKO Production are you an idiot? NYC is the biggest city in America, not england

  • @alexbleks

    @alexbleks

    6 жыл бұрын

    Just as stupid as Americans thinks Norway is the capital of Sweden; LOOOOOOL xD

  • @Bandstand

    @Bandstand

    6 жыл бұрын

    KEKO Production makes a obvious joke, Free Dom calls him an idiot even though he IS the idiot. Then Alexbleks calls Americans stupid when he acting dumber than Americans. I love KZread. haha

  • @CDion-ol2je
    @CDion-ol2je5 жыл бұрын

    Absolutely loved this!

  • @XanderShiller
    @XanderShiller5 жыл бұрын

    Amazing slideshow of various maps etc is this a program you're using to construct/view all the slides? Please tell me the name..I've been searching for something like this forever.thanks in advance

  • @rebelreloading5265
    @rebelreloading52655 жыл бұрын

    In 2409 that city will be unrecognizable

  • @danielgolus4600

    @danielgolus4600

    4 жыл бұрын

    In which way? Bigger and taller buildings? If so, we're seeing that already. It's a good sign of economic vibrancy. Definitely NOT static.

  • @FastCarsNoRules220

    @FastCarsNoRules220

    4 жыл бұрын

    It would probably look like that movie Fifth Element by then.

  • @brys555

    @brys555

    4 жыл бұрын

    In 2409 that city will be deep under water.

  • @ittdust
    @ittdust5 жыл бұрын

    2:45 Went to NYC a few months ago for the first time and in wandering about I happened upon nearly this exact location

  • @Man-in-the-green

    @Man-in-the-green

    3 жыл бұрын

    Russel Shorto described it in his books about New Amsterdam.

  • @pabloizem1022
    @pabloizem10224 жыл бұрын

    oou, this is such an interesting video. I have liked it so much, and a really good work from people who reconstructed the map!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • @relaxmarco
    @relaxmarco6 жыл бұрын

    This is a very interesting perspective over one of the most captivating places in the world.

  • @DementedCaver
    @DementedCaver5 жыл бұрын

    "They paved paradise and put up a parking lot." Joni Mitchell

  • @jiggermast
    @jiggermast7 жыл бұрын

    Whenever I'm unfortunate enough to be in a city, any city, a line Clint Eastwood came out with in a film while looking over San Francisco or New York (not sure which), always now springs to mind, it went something like this...."Must have been truly beautiful before man came along and loused it all up!"

  • @sniffglue6900

    @sniffglue6900

    6 жыл бұрын

    then stay out of the city, self righteous douche

  • @Stampy2077

    @Stampy2077

    6 жыл бұрын

    I feel like I’m the only one that thinks cities are prettier and better than nature

  • @watcherob

    @watcherob

    6 жыл бұрын

    Than go live in the forest you hippie. Big cities are the best thing in the world. Mankind did an awesome job.

  • @watcherob

    @watcherob

    6 жыл бұрын

    TheFlamingOreo Nope, i agree.

  • @onee

    @onee

    6 жыл бұрын

    watcherob I wouldn't call it "the best thing in the world". But they were a necessity after the industrial revolution.

  • @KewhoMin
    @KewhoMin6 жыл бұрын

    That side-by-side photo is powerful. Great video

  • @iloveamerica1966
    @iloveamerica19666 жыл бұрын

    Thank you, for implementing and sharing your passion. IMHO, as amazing as PayPal, Tesla, and Spacex.

  • @madmatmp
    @madmatmp5 жыл бұрын

    It’s funny I’ve been to New York but never York and I live in the UK.

  • @pashvonderc381

    @pashvonderc381

    5 жыл бұрын

    Same here, also I've been to Plymouth Mass. but never to Plymouth UK, even though it was just along the coast..

  • @avega2792

    @avega2792

    5 жыл бұрын

    You're right, that's hilarious!

  • @GoonOnFire

    @GoonOnFire

    5 жыл бұрын

    @@avega2792 I laughed for hours at this joke. I will frame this comment and pass it down to my grand children one day, and the children before them.

  • @virvisquevir3320

    @virvisquevir3320

    4 жыл бұрын

    GoonOnFire - So let me in on the joke. They both went to somewhere far away but not to somewhere close by their home. I don't see what's so funny about that.

  • @Man-in-the-green

    @Man-in-the-green

    3 жыл бұрын

    New York was not called after the city of York, but after the Duke of York. I live in Old Amsterdam and I have been several times to New Amsterdam. Love them both!

  • @TwentyTwelveee
    @TwentyTwelveee14 жыл бұрын

    amazing

  • @TheFarmacySeedsNetwork
    @TheFarmacySeedsNetwork6 жыл бұрын

    I live 90 miles north of NYC... I despise this city... I have visited it about 10 times in my life... and never really enjoyed it... but this video makes me wish I could go back in time and explore this when it was natural. Great video and talk!

  • @reidl4022
    @reidl40223 жыл бұрын

    I want a ted talk just about how that map was made, its remarkable!

  • @lancelotkillz
    @lancelotkillz5 жыл бұрын

    Some of the pictures were so pixelated they could be considered radio☺️

  • @Abcflc
    @Abcflc6 жыл бұрын

    RIP natural world

  • @wanderer6813

    @wanderer6813

    6 жыл бұрын

    There still plenty of natural land. The whole world isn't one big city

  • @Abcflc

    @Abcflc

    6 жыл бұрын

    actually most of the world has been intervened in one way or another by humans (roads/rail/plastic pollution/fertilized runoff/mining/deforestation/agriculture/settlements)

  • @nigelio3

    @nigelio3

    6 жыл бұрын

    You sure about that? Most of the world huh?

  • @darrenpat182

    @darrenpat182

    6 жыл бұрын

    definitely has, no question, we are all fucked, the CO2 wont stop rising, nobody is willing to change.

  • @GhostofTradition

    @GhostofTradition

    6 жыл бұрын

    get out of the city and you'll see

  • @lilianaprina5991
    @lilianaprina59913 жыл бұрын

    Thanks Eric Sanderson is such beautiful information. New York City is an adventure any way one looks at such a challenging City escape.

  • @leighparker9109
    @leighparker91095 жыл бұрын

    Thanks a bunch for this.

  • @Lioness_Es
    @Lioness_Es5 жыл бұрын

    Thank you Sir. Please do Los Angeles then Miami.

  • @bcad2438
    @bcad24385 жыл бұрын

    The split image is inaccurate. The natural shore should line up with Pearl Street which is several blocks inland.

  • @bojack40

    @bojack40

    4 жыл бұрын

    Bc Ad what’s your qualification for saying that. This guy seems more than qualified and reliable academically and through experience

  • @quack9694

    @quack9694

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@bojack40 this video is 10 years old, more recent findings and more modern computer models back up his claim

  • @lazystonedmonk438
    @lazystonedmonk4382 жыл бұрын

    This thing always amazed me every time im stoned, I always wonder how one place became what it is today, how the place looks like in the past.

  • @taylormartinlucas
    @taylormartinlucas3 жыл бұрын

    Absolutely outstanding work.

  • @Regicide1990
    @Regicide199014 жыл бұрын

    Canadian population is one of the most diverse populations in the world, yet its crime rate is pretty low.

  • @clashmasterx3253
    @clashmasterx32533 жыл бұрын

    I wish I could just see what the entire country looked like throughout time

  • @metro25production

    @metro25production

    2 жыл бұрын

    "I wish I could just see what the entire country looked like before we stole it from the natives" I just fixed it to look more logical 😉

  • @darylsmith9318
    @darylsmith93185 жыл бұрын

    This was really fascinating.

  • @tudorjason
    @tudorjason4 жыл бұрын

    3:20 - That would be an awesome map to have painted on a wall in one's home. It could be large and even 3D.

  • @Atoyota
    @Atoyota14 жыл бұрын

    All for it here, although some form of mass transit for both people and product needs to be a part of this. There are a lot of systems that need to work in concert with natural ones, but the sentiment is on target.

  • @Ragnarok182
    @Ragnarok1825 жыл бұрын

    Watching this, actually makes me sad, this place could have been a really incredable National Park if they didn't build New York City there and built it else where.

  • @daveforz

    @daveforz

    5 жыл бұрын

    There's definitely thousands of destroyed national parks around the work

  • @Thellbro

    @Thellbro

    5 жыл бұрын

    And then that ”elsewhere” would ”destroy” the nature in the same way. With that logic, mankind has to erase it self from the face of the earth...which make no sense at all.

  • @tracydrennan3296

    @tracydrennan3296

    5 жыл бұрын

    Ahh... Did you know that particular areas were inhabited due to deep water ports and access to the seas . I know that sounds like some evil “ white Patriarchy “ agenda , and all . But that’s how civilization was created , that how your cellphone and you’re over priced fancy coffee shops made it into existence . Isn’t that fascinating .

  • @danielgolus4600

    @danielgolus4600

    4 жыл бұрын

    You don't "build" cities. They develop over time, and are usually founded for economic purposes.

  • @oldyoung9379
    @oldyoung93793 жыл бұрын

    A very good work. Thank you.

  • @ruzzelladrian907
    @ruzzelladrian9074 жыл бұрын

    This is absolutely beautiful.

  • @TeddyKrimsony
    @TeddyKrimsony6 жыл бұрын

    why only in 480p??

  • @nicktait50

    @nicktait50

    6 жыл бұрын

    2009

  • @shadowsinmymind9
    @shadowsinmymind93 жыл бұрын

    Him: I didnt grow up in New York, I grew up out west in the Sierra Nevada mountains like you see here: *shows pixelated mess Me: Wow, what a gorgeous place

  • @sandman204
    @sandman2045 жыл бұрын

    Cheers to the epilogue 🍻👏

  • @MusicLoverr
    @MusicLoverr4 жыл бұрын

    beautiful place, it seems worth a visit and enjoy the view

  • @iangraves1291
    @iangraves12916 жыл бұрын

    I love history

  • @TS_Mind_Swept
    @TS_Mind_Swept6 жыл бұрын

    So what you're saying is that New York actually used to be a nice place until man came along

  • @redskins165

    @redskins165

    6 жыл бұрын

    0MindSwept0 exactly

  • @redskins165

    @redskins165

    6 жыл бұрын

    I seen a documentary a long time ago..a native tribe story..and it said that today's Broadway street is the exact trail that the tribe would use to go get fresh water and fish..from the river and the coast.so yea it's crazy how it is..

  • @thomaspayne6866

    @thomaspayne6866

    6 жыл бұрын

    Go live in the woods then you animal. Oh, you don’t want that do you?

  • @_JellyDonut_

    @_JellyDonut_

    6 жыл бұрын

    Sabrina Dugan By "turned it into a crap hole" I think maybe you mean "built it into one of the affluent and important cities in human history." There's still plenty of nature upstate if that's what you're into

  • @arathcazares1326

    @arathcazares1326

    5 жыл бұрын

    Sabrina Dugan you wanted to move to Chicago area, who are very grassy and weed of grass with concrete, who are filled with poverty with poor people and not renovate buildings? I’m Confused

  • @treyott9638
    @treyott96384 жыл бұрын

    Brilliant work

  • @dirtrider88
    @dirtrider883 жыл бұрын

    is there a website where i can view this map with all the different overlays?

  • @Rickyrab
    @Rickyrab6 жыл бұрын

    Guess why the courthouse are on the site of the collect pond. Well, it became a wetland... Which became a low point when drained, prone to disease and mosquitoes... So it turned into a slum, the notorious Five Points. So of course the authorities tore the slum down and built public works. Today's courthouses.

  • @c.norbertneumann4986

    @c.norbertneumann4986

    2 жыл бұрын

    Do you mean the Old New York County Courthouse that was built at 52 Chamber Street when notoriously corrupt William ("Boss") Tweed was mayor of New York City? The construction of that courthouse cost the taxpayers 300 million $, which is the equivalent of 7 billion $ in today's currency.

  • @xit1254
    @xit12546 жыл бұрын

    New York is a beautiful city, in spite of all these smug, holier than thou comments.

  • @saiyangod9640

    @saiyangod9640

    6 жыл бұрын

    rd f true

  • @scasey1960

    @scasey1960

    6 жыл бұрын

    NYC is a sewer compared to London. Disgusting and filthy.

  • @BlackKettleRanch

    @BlackKettleRanch

    5 жыл бұрын

    Planet Earth is a beautiful planet, in spite of all these destructive, superioristic, capitalist money quests.

  • @MrPatt1983

    @MrPatt1983

    5 жыл бұрын

    @@scasey1960 I've been to London and enjoyed it very much. But I did not find it to be clean.

  • @Amateur_Pianist_472

    @Amateur_Pianist_472

    5 жыл бұрын

    rd f it’s a concrete jungle, no traditional architecture

  • @thebridge7838
    @thebridge78386 жыл бұрын

    ...awesome, thank you! 👍🏻

  • @lucasmartinez4248
    @lucasmartinez42486 жыл бұрын

    Amazing video!

  • @brookssilber
    @brookssilber6 жыл бұрын

    Now you gotta do England: before the citry

  • @bennyboiart7781

    @bennyboiart7781

    5 жыл бұрын

    Brooks Silber do you mean London, or are you implying that all of England is just one big city?

  • @axelfoley1406

    @axelfoley1406

    4 жыл бұрын

    That would be great. But I think you meant London, lol. London has gone through so many changes since 100 AD.

  • @shukriwafiq5220

    @shukriwafiq5220

    3 жыл бұрын

    I don't even know who's joking anymore.

  • @suriname121
    @suriname1215 жыл бұрын

    It was new Amsterdam before new york

  • @DiogenesOfCa

    @DiogenesOfCa

    4 жыл бұрын

    @iqbal padilla It was a a glacier before it was Native American land.

  • @DiogenesOfCa

    @DiogenesOfCa

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@gogol293 Woolly Mammoth picnic, would be a great band name.

  • @GeorgeI
    @GeorgeI4 жыл бұрын

    Awesome presentation

  • @dynamicphotography_
    @dynamicphotography_4 жыл бұрын

    This has me interested in visiting New York. I'm in Oregon.

  • @CB3474
    @CB34746 жыл бұрын

    I can't believe it. In one city block, there could've been 100 trees, thousands of animals and insects, millions of succulents and flowers, and a large group of Native American Indians all in that one section.

  • @scasey1960

    @scasey1960

    6 жыл бұрын

    CB3474 I think what you can’t believe is the monumental destruction of the eco-system by mankind within several hundred years. Do you also fail to conceive of climate change?

  • @inkyguy

    @inkyguy

    5 жыл бұрын

    It's the suburbs where few ppl live and displace and destroy both flora and fauna that are destroying the environment. Cities concentrate people leaving much more open land to cultivate or grow wild.

  • @Rao665

    @Rao665

    5 жыл бұрын

    @@inkyguy nah. its the cities. Lol funny how the rich urban fucks tturn up their noses at rural people and "suburbia" "its not us its THEM!" The area of New York was an ecological goldmine. now its just one giant mass of concrete, glass, plastic, rubber and money.

  • @Rao665

    @Rao665

    5 жыл бұрын

    @@inkyguy and you forget the suburbs of today are just the "urban" areas of tomorrow, just lile the urban areas of today were the "suburbs" of the past.

  • @AtheistMorax
    @AtheistMorax5 жыл бұрын

    The greatest city in Earth :)

  • @METALFACEDOOMXXXX

    @METALFACEDOOMXXXX

    5 жыл бұрын

    👍

  • @Anubis2571
    @Anubis25714 жыл бұрын

    Loved This

  • @resipsaloquitur13
    @resipsaloquitur13 Жыл бұрын

    Excellent presentation

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