text: Watch L.A., Paris, and São Paulo Grow in These Pretty Visualisations | Gizmodo UK
  Paris is a bloodshot eyeball, São Paulo spreads out like a watercolour, and L.A. is a glorious mess. You can see how three very different metropolises expand and sprawl in these gorgeous animations produced as part of NYU's Stern Urbanisation Project, examining the growth of cities.
  And, finally, the city with one of the weirdest growth patterns of all (and that's probably why they chose it). Young L.A. uses all the tricks in the book, first building a dense city centre downtown—but then, oh wait, there's another city centre over there! And another over there! You can also watch how the early rail system expands the city along its corridors, then the freeways draw a completely different pattern of growth. [Urbanization Project]