Name world class cities with no water around it

[sdifox]

Originally posted by: Imp
... Edmonton, Alberta? It's not that great, and I don't know what it's beside, but it's in the prairies.

Makes sense for it to be so hard to find one. They couldn't and still can't exactly supply a 'great' city without shipping lanes.

lol, a river runs through it.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I...dmonton_street_map.png

 

[Shlong]

Atlanta does have a river: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chattahoochee_River

 

[sao123]

Originally posted by: SagaLore
Pittsburgh. Oh wait...

has access to both the atlantic and the gulf via 3 rivers...



Philadelphia on the other had, while has access to water, is an absolute atrocity... should be laid desolate like Sodom And Gomorrah.

 

[thegimp03]

Originally posted by: AstroManLuca

Originally posted by: Common Courtesy
Las Vegas

This.

And Phoenix. EDIT: Nevermind, I guess even Phoenix has a river next to it.

Las Vegas doesn't have water around it, per se, but the Colorado River (and Hoover Dam) are close by. Otherwise they'd be screwed.

 

[PingSpike]

Originally posted by: sdifox
Major cities always start next to a river since that is the most important resource. Serves as water source and means of transportation.

Also a toilet!

But yes, certainly any old city at least needs or needed a water source for its populace.

 

[Epic Fail]

Riyadh, a city smack in the middle of a desert and there is no river in Saudi Arabia.

 

[Genx87]

Most major cities got their start as trading posts. This means it needed access to a body of water as it was a means of transporting goods.

 

[sdifox]

Originally posted by: Epic Fail
Riyadh, a city smack in the middle of a desert and there is no river in Saudi Arabia.

the entire country is on desalination. So I think we have a winner.

 

[DisgruntledVirus]

Venice

 

[sdifox]

Originally posted by: DisgruntledVirus
Venice

lol

 

[So]

Originally posted by: thegimp03

Originally posted by: AstroManLuca

Originally posted by: Common Courtesy
Las Vegas

This.

And Phoenix. EDIT: Nevermind, I guess even Phoenix has a river next to it.

Las Vegas doesn't have water around it, per se, but the Colorado River (and Hoover Dam) are close by. Otherwise they'd be screwed.

Actually, we only get a small share of water from the colorado river. LV is in trouble because of that and is planning to build massive pipelines to northern NV, so that socal can extract all our water.

 

[DaWhim]

Originally posted by: sdifox

Originally posted by: DisgruntledVirus
Venice

lol

haha, this one got a chuckle out of me.

 

[Martin]

A lot of you have weird notions of what a "world class" city is. Atlanta? Edmonton? WTF?!

 

[Modelworks]

If you look at historical cities there are quite a few.
Rome
Constantinople
Carthage
Persia/Iran


All of those brought water in via aquaducts or tunnels.
Some really amazing stuff, imagine digging a tunnel 20 miles long totally with hand tools.
Today those areas may be near an ocean but they still pipe in drinking water.

Moscow is another one.

 

[sdifox]

Originally posted by: Modelworks
If you look at historical cities there are quite a few.
Rome
Constantinople
Carthage
Persia/Iran


All of those brought water in via aquaducts or tunnels.
Some really amazing stuff, imagine digging a tunnel 20 miles long totally with hand tools.
Today those areas may be near an ocean but they still pipe in drinking water.

Moscow is another one.

err, Moscow is named after the river Moskva.

Constantinople is on the coast, so was Carthage

Rome is on Tevere

Persia/Iran is not a city.

The topic is city with no water around it, so no fresh or sea water.

 

[uli2000]

Originally posted by: So

Originally posted by: thegimp03

Originally posted by: AstroManLuca

Originally posted by: Common Courtesy
Las Vegas

This.

And Phoenix. EDIT: Nevermind, I guess even Phoenix has a river next to it.

Las Vegas doesn't have water around it, per se, but the Colorado River (and Hoover Dam) are close by. Otherwise they'd be screwed.

Actually, we only get a small share of water from the colorado river. LV is in trouble because of that and is planning to build massive pipelines to northern NV, so that socal can extract all our water.

And thus, screwing NE Nevada which has barley any surplus water.

 

[txrandom]

Originally posted by: Modelworks
If you look at historical cities there are quite a few.
Rome
Constantinople
Carthage
Persia/Iran


All of those brought water in via aquaducts or tunnels.
Some really amazing stuff, imagine digging a tunnel 20 miles long totally with hand tools.
Today those areas may be near an ocean but they still pipe in drinking water.

Moscow is another one.

Istanbul is surrounded by water...

 

[Ruptga]

Originally posted by: txrandom

Originally posted by: Modelworks
If you look at historical cities there are quite a few.
Rome
Constantinople
Carthage
Persia/Iran


All of those brought water in via aquaducts or tunnels.
Some really amazing stuff, imagine digging a tunnel 20 miles long totally with hand tools.
Today those areas may be near an ocean but they still pipe in drinking water.

Moscow is another one.

Istanbul is surrounded by water...

no, it's Constantinople

 

[IronWing]

Originally posted by: ADDAvenger

Originally posted by: txrandom

Originally posted by: Modelworks
If you look at historical cities there are quite a few.
Rome
Constantinople
Carthage
Persia/Iran


All of those brought water in via aquaducts or tunnels.
Some really amazing stuff, imagine digging a tunnel 20 miles long totally with hand tools.
Today those areas may be near an ocean but they still pipe in drinking water.

Moscow is another one.

Istanbul is surrounded by water...

no, it's Constantinople

That ain't nobody's business, man.

 

[Modelworks]

Originally posted by: txrandom

Originally posted by: Modelworks
If you look at historical cities there are quite a few.
Rome
Constantinople
Carthage
Persia/Iran


All of those brought water in via aquaducts or tunnels.
Some really amazing stuff, imagine digging a tunnel 20 miles long totally with hand tools.
Today those areas may be near an ocean but they still pipe in drinking water.

Moscow is another one.

Istanbul is surrounded by water...

Yes , but its like they say, water water everywhere but not a drop to drink.
The same with all the other cities I listed.

 

[IronWing]

Ironically enough, Salt Lake City isn't on Great Salt Lake, it is a a few miles away. Great Salt Lake is a thin film of brine covering a 4000' deep fill of partially decomposed sea gull carcasses and stinks to heaven.

 

[ed21x]

I'm surprised no one has said Los Angeles, which is mostly pretty far from the Ocean.

 

[Modelworks]

Originally posted by: ironwing
Ironically enough, Salt Lake City isn't on Great Salt Lake, it is a a few miles away. Great Salt Lake is a thin film of brine covering a 4000' deep fill of partially decomposed sea gull carcasses and stinks to heaven.

Sounds like a great vacation spot !

 

[IronWing]

Originally posted by: ed21x
I'm surprised no one has said Los Angeles, which is mostly pretty far from the Ocean.

Even the parts that are close are far away. I had a four hour layover at LAX. I couldn't get to the beach and back in that time even though the runway ends at the beach. You can't get there from here.

If I had been able to get to the beach at the airport I could have seen Dudley Moore's old house,oooh.

 

[TallBill]

Originally posted by: ironwing

Originally posted by: ADDAvenger

Originally posted by: txrandom

Originally posted by: Modelworks
If you look at historical cities there are quite a few.
Rome
Constantinople
Carthage
Persia/Iran


All of those brought water in via aquaducts or tunnels.
Some really amazing stuff, imagine digging a tunnel 20 miles long totally with hand tools.
Today those areas may be near an ocean but they still pipe in drinking water.

Moscow is another one.

Istanbul is surrounded by water...

no, it's Constantinople

That ain't nobody's business, man.

But the turks?