Trulia Hindsight

We made some modifications and response times seem to be back to normal. Enjoy playing around with Hindsight and let us know if you are seeing any problems.

Due to high demand we are experiencing some slow load times on Trulia Hindsight; please bear with us as we work to resolve the issues. We will post when performance returns to normal.

In the meantime, here’s a short video demonstrating the site that we used in a presentation we gave at the Where 2.0 conference in San Jose yesterday

Trulia Hindsight Demo from Stamen on Vimeo

You can also download the full resolution clip, a 1024×768 resolution Quicktime movie, approximately 17MB.

The suburb of Plano, Texas has been rapidly growing since the 1990’s. Its population doubled to 222,030 by 2000, making Plano one of the largest suburbs in the Dallas area. Many large corporations like Frito-Lay and JC Penney began moving their headquarters here in the the 1980s, advancing its growth. Plano has a flat terrain with a grid-pattern of streets and highways. Development has taken place all the way to the city limits. Watch its recent growth.

Gloucester is a small fishing town on the bay of Cape Ann. It is America’s oldest Seaport, dating as far back as 1606. Gloucester is located 30 miles northeast of Boston. It was first a shipbuilding center then later became an important fishing port due to its proximity to the Georges Banks and other fishing banks off the northeast coast. Gloucester’s beauty has also attracted many artists and writers since the early 19th century. Today Gloucester has many attractions and activities from musuems, antique shops and galleries. You can sail on a schooner or go whale watching. The small town has a large concentration of colonial (pre-revolutionary) and federal (1780-1830) architecture.

Discovery Bay is part of Contra Costa County in California. It is located on the California Delta waterway. The Delta consists of hundreds of miles of waterways which Discovery Bay is connected to. Watch the amazing shapes emerge from the map of this river delta community. The community features a full-service Marina and Yacht Harbor with launching and storage facilities. The residential properties are composed of townhomes and condominiums, waterfront homes, golf course homes and more.

After a long process, Santa Clarita finally became an official city in December 15, 1987. There were previous proposals and attempts to create a new county, but they were not successful. The city has grown rapidly the past decades with recent residential contruction, building of new parks, metro stations, new roads and more. Check out the growth of Newhall, which is the southernmost area of Santa Clarita.

Watch SoMa’s growth over the past decade. SoMa has grown into a neighborhood of warehouses, loft apartments, art spaces, nightclubs, restaurants, office spaces from an industrial district of factories. Expect more changes to come with the many ongoing plans for redevelopment: Transbay Terminal, One Rincon Hill, Millenium Tower, 300 Spear Street.

The small town of Butte began as a mining town in the late 19th century. Its peak years occurred between the late 19th century to the 1920s, becoming the largest mining town in North America. It became known as the “Richest Hill on Earth”, mining gold, silver and copper. It became famous for its saloons and red-light district. It attracted a diverse community of immigrants from Ireland, Wales, England, Canada, Finland, Austria, Serbia, Italy, China, Syria, Croatia, Montenegro and from all over the US.

To date over 48 billion dollars of wealth has been unearthed from this hill. This extraordinary phenomenon emerged at the height of the industrial revolution when the mining hill became the most concentrated area of industrial machines on Earth. The colossal machines spawned the most influential labor market anywhere, the most ethnically diverse population in the country, the largest red light district in the American West, nine railroads, the largest network of underground workings per square mile in the world (over 10,000 miles of tunneling), more wealth per citizen than any other comparable place up to that time, and a titanic struggle for the hill’s riches by both entrepreneurs and laborers.

from Western Mining History

Detroit saw rapid growth in the first half of the twentieth century as the automotive capital of the world. Its rapid decline began in the 1960s. The city has lost almost half of its population since the 1950s. Detroit has become a symbol of urban decay. Abandoned buildings and overgrown vegatation on structures are pictures of the present state of Detroit. See The Fabulous Ruins of Detroit and this photo album on Flickr.

Las Vegas is located in the Las Vegas Valley, a desert surrounded by the Spring Mountains and the Sierra Nevada. Las Vegas serves as the center of one of the fastest-growing metropolitan areas in the United States. Its population has multiplied by a factor of 30 since the 1940s-more than that of any other American city. Las Vegas is renowned for tourism, gaming, a dry and vigorous climate, and an assortment of indoor and outdoor recreational activities. The city is also booming in manufacturing and industrial employment, in the construction of new houses, and in the creation of new service jobs. Watch the city’s rapid growth. A peak in building all the way to the very edges meeting the desert has taken place within the last 5 years.