Here are the last three minutes of Rob Carter's beautiful stop motion video. This shows the changes in a city from a bird's eye view and unfortunately you can only include the said last three minutes, the whole, almost 10 minutes short film is available on Rob's website and begins in 1755 with a few huts in the forest and slowly grows modern city of Charlotte, which can be seen in the last three minutes below. Snip from Vimeo:
Metropolis is a quirky and very abridged narrative history of the city of Charlotte, North Carolina. It uses stop motion video animation to physically manipulate aerial still images of the city (both real and fictional), creating a landscape in constant motion. Starting around 1755 on a Native American trading path, the viewer is presented with the building of the first house in Charlotte. From there we see the town develop through the historic dismissal of the English, to the prosperity made by the discovery of gold and the subsequent roots of the building of the multitude of churches that the city is famous for. Now the landscape turns white with cotton, and the modern city is 'born', with a more detailed re-creation of the economic boom and surprising architectural transformation that has occurred in the past 20 years.