Juxta layers archival photographs and video over the exact streets where history unfolded, turning any city walk into a journey through time.
App Concept · Personal project
Cities are layered artifacts. Beneath every glass tower and parking lot lies the ghost of something older. Juxta draws from historical society archives, pinning photos to precise GPS coordinates. Point your phone at a building, see what stood there a hundred years ago.
"A juxtaposition that reveals a certain lost appeal, of which many American cities are victims."
The brief that started it all
2k+
Landmarks mapped
45+
Cities available
1800s
Earliest archive
∞
Stories to discover
Core features
Geotagged archival photographs and video show you what your city once looked like, block by block. Every pin is a portal.
Swipe through time with interactive before-and-after sliders. Compare past and present in a single gesture, from 1896 to today.
Every building has a story. Curated historical context, architectural tags, and narratives from the people who knew these places.
Curate your own visual memories across every city you visit. Join the Communal Forum, where citizens preserve, debate, and imagine better cities together.
The experience
Drag through time from 1896 to present. The slider surfaces photos from any era of a landmark's history.
Every city you visit becomes a living timeline. 2,000 landmarks mapped to the streets you walked.
Tracks every city explored, distance covered, and memory pinned, building your personal urban history.
Travel Mode