Want to visit a distant city? Want to check architecture in a certain street? Innovative mapping technologies now make distant cities available and tangible for users worldwide – without travelling physically. The website VirtualCity provides its users a new way to view their world by collecting millions of photographs of metropolitan areas and combining them with a mapping application. This way, users can virtually scroll through the digital landscapes of distant urban areas, selected streets, or visit any other point of interest without actually leaving their home. The certain style of urban design or unique architecture of a specific city is thus available at any time at any place just per mouse click. As a side effect, the page offers the opportunity to connect with other users by bookmarking locations, and may serve as the basis for discussions about architecture and urban design.

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