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After that, there are several that have positives and negatives and are all pretty closely ranked in my book: Miami, Atlanta, San Francisco, Pittsburgh, Dallas, Houston, Minneapolis, Philly and LA.
Denver: It's where I am from, and while there are cites with larger and more impressive skylines, there will never be a city with a "better" skyline.
Seattle: Very nice setting skyline from just about any angle.
San Diego: Similar to Seattle. Looks good from most directions.
San Francisco: I loathe the Transamerica Pyramid, but as a whole, San Francisco is a post-card ready skyline. Very impressive.
New York City: It is hard to argue against this one.
Chicago: Or this one.
Minneapolis: A very nice and impressive skyline.
Los Angeles: Often criticized for being too small for a city of its size. Rightly so, I suppose. But that doesn't meant that it is not a nice collection of high-rises in its own right. The view from Dodgers stadium at night is very appealing. Just watch your back as you cross the parking lot!
Kansas City: Like Denver, there are several more impressive skylines than KC. I just like KC, it's nice looking with a good mix of old and new. Well, relatively new.
Indianapolis: Not an overly impressive skyline, just a nicely balanced one.
Love it when someone who has traveled and captured the essence of the place gives an analysis of their opinion. Even if I didn't agree, I enjoyed reading.
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You should see an aerial of Jacksonville's downtown. It's got more surface parking lots per capita than anywhere because city leaders in the 70s and 80s literally bulldozed dozens and dozens of blocks of dense development, all for "Urban Renewal." Only now are city leaders regretting it and imposing regulations on surface parking lots (and banning them). The South in general is struggling because it has demolished much of its good development and re-adaptable development built before zoning and subdivision regulations, and now new development must conform to idiotic laws and regulations. That poses a problem.
Anyway, my ranking would go like this:
1) Lower Manhattan of the 1930s from any perspective
2) Seattle from Puget Sound or from Capitol Hill
3) Chicago from Cabrini Green or from John Hancock Tower
4) Boston from MIT (Cambridge)
5) Los Angeles aerial from the SW
6) San Francisco from the Bay Bridge or from Nob Hill or Mount Sutro
7) Central City Philly from either the Schuylkill River south of Cira Center or from the Southside
8) Atlanta looking south from Buckhead toward Midtown/Downtown (gotta love the spires and average height)
9) Houston from Medical Center
10) Miami from the Rusty Pelican (best shot of Miami by far)
Honorable Mentions:
11) Dallas from the West so Uptown and Downtown can be panned (see above) at night only (I find Dallas slightly boring during the day)
12) Minneapolis
13) Pittsburgh from the West side of the river there (Ohio?)
14) Denver
15) San Diego at night or early evening (see my opinion of Dallas)
16) St. Louis aerial from West End to capture a line of old highrises all the way to downtown
17) Kansas City aerial from the SW toward Country Club Plaza to capture the same concept as in STL
18) Cleveland
19) Detroit of the 1930s aerial from the (Midtown?) area
20) Las Vegas (have to throw it in there because it is stunning from a distance or looking "down the strip...but to me a skyline is not a skyline without some signature corporate office towers thrown in)
Semi-honorable mentions go to Baltimore, Indy, Charlotte, Austin, Columbus, and Portland.
1. New York
2. Chicago
3. Philadelphia
4. San Fran
5. Pittsburgh
6. Seattle
7. Miami
8. Boston
9. Minneapolis
10. Atlanta
Next would be Houston, LA, Dallas, Atlanta. Other cities up there are Charlotte, Cleveland, Cincinnati, San Diego, Portland, Jersey City, Kansas City, Honolulu... damn there are so many great skylines in this country it is hard to choose just a few.
Seattle
Chicago
New York
Toronto
Dubai
Chongqing
Hong Kong
Shanghai
Seoul
Tokyo
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