You'll see kingfishers, herons and pelicans on one side of your boat and Cancún-style high rises from the other.
"It was," says a veiled guide in the air-conditioned comfort of Babylon's Nebuchadnezzar Museum, "91.5 metres high, rising from a 91.5 metre square base.
During the next few years, under an armada of cranes, several dozen new apartment blocks, each eight or ten stories high, rose from the dust.
"OH MY God, I'd lay odds that's pet-coke," an appalled Canadian can be heard saying, over amateur video of a wall of black dust, hundreds of feet high, rising from the American side of the Detroit river.
Research by think tank the Centre for Social Justice revealed that in England, the number of incidents involving a legal high rose from 1,365 in 2013 to 3,664 in 2014, an increase of 169%.
Previously enforced height restrictions have prevented high rises from altering Paris' skyline for the past 40 years.
For years, people in Zürich only knew high rises from photos of New York and Fritz Lang's film Metropolis.
In 1976, Kelly appeared on Debutantes, a compilation album featuring various Melbourne-based artists, and joined pub-rockers The High Rise Bombers from 1977 to 1978.
"They dumped anything and everything," said Ms. Vogt, who prevented a high-rise from being built on the site years ago.
High-Rise, from established source material and starring Tom Hiddleston, Sienna Miller, Elisabeth Moss and Luke Evans, is significantly Wheatley's biggest film, by budget, scale of release and box office.
