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Urban Planet: The 1906 San Francisco Earthquake Today

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Urban Planet is a daily roundup of blogs from around the world dealing specifically with urban environments. We’ll be on the lookout for websites outside the country that approach themes related to urban experiences and issues.

The destruction of the 1906 earthquake in San Francisco is hard to imagine. Luckily, artist Shawn Clover has done the imagining for you. Blending images of the 1906 photos with those of identical sites taken today, Clover suggests what the aftermath might look like today. (Huffington Post)

Image from Huffington Post

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