Landscapes created by human hands

We invite you to take a look at the landscapes created by human hands (using Google Earth).

A section of a partially built-up residential project with just two houses near Fort Myers, Florida. (© Google)

A strip of houses in the southeastern part of Fort Myers. (© Google)

Round plots with houses near the I-75 highway. (© Google)

This territory of 23067 hectares called "Golden Gates Mansions" was the largest in America in the 1960s. Canals and roads were built, but eventually the construction company went bankrupt. Over the past 20 years or so, the land has been transferred to the state and turned into the Picaine Strand Forest. (© Google/USGS)

Boats sail through the canals in the northern part of Cape Coral, Florida. (© Google)

The Rotunda West area, originally built up in the 1960s, has never been completed. It is located in Charlotte County, Florida. (© Google/Data SIO, NOAA, U.S. Navy, NGA, GEBCO)

Densely populated area in Bonita Springs. (© Google)

An area built around an artificial lake in the southeastern part of Bonita Springs, Florida. (© Google)

Dead ends in the south Rotunda West neighborhood in Charlotte County. (© Google)

The built-up area and the neighboring one in which construction is underway, in Lehigh Acres. (© Google)

A densely populated area of Cape Coral, Florida. (© Google)

Construction near North Fort Myers on the Kalusahatchee River. (© Google/Europa Technologies)

Partially built-up, and now partially overgrown area in Lehigh Acres. (© Google)

The Dade-Collier Training and Transition Airport was originally planned as an airport for Everglades Jetport jets. Its construction began in 1968, and it was planned as the largest airport with six lanes to support super-high-speed traffic. Due to the nearby Big Cypress Nature Reserve, the construction of the airport was suspended, and when the advertised "super-high-speed" airport did not meet the expectations assigned to it, the project was left as it is. (© Google/USGS/DigitalGlobe)

A "grid" of undeveloped alleys in the west of Port Charlotte, Florida. (© Google)

A neighborhood in Port Charlotte, Florida. (© Google)

A partially built-up area near Charlotte Harbor, north of Fort Myers. (© Google)

Houses in a row along an artificial lake near Naples, Florida. (© Google)

Canals and houses in Charlotte Park, south of Port Charlotte, Florida. (© Google/Europa Technologies)

A built-up piece of land north of Eaglewood. (© Google)

Part of the Verona Walk neighborhood in Naples, Florida. (© Google)

Houses in circular lots north of North Fort Myers. (© Google)

A series of residential buildings in various stages of completion along a highway in the south of Naples, Florida. (© Google/USGS)

Naples Park is a densely populated area north of Naples. (© Google)

Canals and houses near the Big Marco River in Marco Island, Florida. (© Google/USGS)

Construction equipment stands by an artificial lake in the southeastern part of Fort Myers, Florida. (© Google)