Human-Created Landscapes (27 photos)

We invite you to explore landscapes created by human hands.

(using Google Earth).







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

A strip of houses in southeast Fort Myers. (© Google)



Rounded lots with houses near I-75. (© Google)



This 53,000-acre property, known as the Golden Gates Mansions, was the largest in America in the 1960s. Canals and roads were built, but the construction company eventually went bankrupt. Over the past 20 years or so, the land has been transferred to the state and transformed into the Picane Strand Forest. (© Google/USGS)



Boats navigate the canals in northern Cape Coral, Florida. (© Google)



The Rotunda West neighborhood, originally developed in the 1960s but never completed, is located in Charlotte County, Florida. (© Google/Data SIO, NOAA, U.S. Navy, NGA, GEBCO)



A densely populated area in Bonita Springs. (© Google)



A neighborhood developed around a man-made lake in southeast Bonita Springs, Florida. (© Google)



Cul-de-sacs in the southern Rotunda West neighborhood in Charlotte County. (© Google)



A developed neighborhood and an adjacent one under construction in Lehigh Acres. (© Google)



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



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



A partially developed, now partially overgrown, area in Lehigh Acres. (© Google)



Dade-Collier Training and Transition Airport was originally planned as the Everglades Jetport. Construction began in 1968, and it was envisioned as a major airport with six runways to support super-high-speed travel. Due to the nearby Big Cypress National Park, construction was delayed, and when the much-hyped "super-high-speed" airport failed to live up to expectations, the project was abandoned. (© Google/USGS/DigitalGlobe)



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



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



A partially developed neighborhood near Charlotte Harbor, north of Fort Myers. (© Google)



Houses in a row along a man-made lake near Naples, Florida. (© Google)



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



A developed plot of land north of Eaglewood. (© Google)



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



Homes on circular lots north of North Fort Myers. (© Google)



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



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



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



Construction equipment stands near a man-made lake in southeast Fort Myers, Florida. (© Google)