this post was submitted on 14 Jul 2025
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Inhabited Beauty

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For photos of beautiful, still-inhabited locales! It can be a quick snapshot of your local town, a breathtaking pro photo of a city, or a pic of some fascinating piece of modern life.

The only real rule is that it must be an actively inhabited/used location (ie not ruins or natural locales). Otherwise, go wild. Anything that you find beautiful or interesting!

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[–] unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de 18 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

I wonder when this was taken, because there is not a single airplane in this picture i think. Maybe before it opened? Usually you always have a couple planes standing around getting boarded or taxiing like in this picture from wikipedia.

It got like 40 Millions passengers in 2023 so it should be very busy.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beijing_Daxing_International_Airport#Statistics

[–] EvacuateSoul@lemmy.world 8 points 2 weeks ago

Cingular wireless is back

[–] b_tr3e@feddit.org 5 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Bit too much sealed surface to be really beautiful, IMO.

[–] PugJesus@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago

De gustibus non disputandem est - I like a little sealed surface now and again.

[–] mojofrododojo@lemmy.world 5 points 2 weeks ago

the compression and scale make the concrete castings look like composite wood flooring.... I dig the patterns

[–] shalafi@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Wow. I assumed it would dwarf DFW. Turns out DFW is third busiest in the world and Beijing doesn't make the top 10.

[–] mojofrododojo@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago

DFW is humongous.