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i think the only northeastern skyline i could recognize is New York City. as for the west coast i could identify Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Seattle. The midwestern skylines i could identify are St. Louis and Chicago.
The only reason Charlotte's BOA tower is so distinguishable is because it's just so much freaking taller than anything else in the entire city.
You obviously don't know what you're talking about. BOA is the tallest tower in the skyline, but you act as though it's 500 ft taller than the next tallest tower (Hearst), which it isn't. When it was first built (over 15 years ago), you could say that, but now? Hardly.
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If it weren't for the BOA tower, Charlotte's skyline would be easily forgotten (just like the rest of that blah/boring city).
And this is coming from someone whose city's sole claim to fame is something made fun of on "The Simpsons." Knoxville wish it could be half of what Charlotte is. Hell, Chattanooga beats the snot out of Knoxville.
First I mus say, as a Charlottean, we do have an ecellent skyline and it will continue to get better. Also, as a Southerner, I believe that the reason why cities in the South don't get that much attention is for the simple fact the city is in the South. The South has a pretty bad rep for its racial problems and the belief that we are slower down here. Some cases that may be true, nevertheless, I believe cities in the South have much to offer and may even perhaps one day carry the U.S. like NYC, Chicago, and LA have. I personally find it hard to place Houston or Dallas in the South given there location and I view Texas as a different animal. But that is just my opinion. I believe cities like Atlanta, Charlotte, Raleigh, Richmond, Jacksonville, and of course I can't leave out Miami will change these perceptions about Southern cities in the next 10-15 years. But once again, just my opinion.
I think you hit the nail right on the head my friend, you took the words right out of my mouth. Southern cities were basically deadzones until around the time of desegregation and the drying up of the industries in the Midwestern and some of the Northeastern cities....I would say that the "Southern renaissance" has been in effect probably for about 40 to 50 years...cities like Atlanta, Dallas, Nashville, Houston, etc. have only been booming and very well established in the last 100 years. They have been around much longer than 100 years, but were not really major players until around then. Atlanta in particular is unrecognizable likely because it was burned to the ground during the Civil War so it looked completely different when it was rebuilt, not to mention that it took a very long time for it to recover. THat's one reason. The other is that the economy of the South jumpstarted only a few decades ago and downtowns developed and populations experienced explosive growth...as a result, most Southern cities are pretty unrecognizable compared to how they would have been in say...the 1950s...their skylines are not ones that have been traditionally portrayed like the skylines of New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, San Francisco, St. Louis, Cleveland, Indianapolis, etc.
The first highrises weren't built until the late 1800s...so how many cities have recognizeable skylines from prior to 1900? NONE. Atlanta has dozens of highrises built from 1895 thru 1930, just like most other large cities of that time period...but those aren't the buildings anyone recognizes - the recognizeable ones are the newer ones or the famous ones. The Westin Peachtree Plaza is easy to identify on Atlanta's skyline, as are a few other buildings that give it away to anyone who has ever actually visited the city.
First I mus say, as a Charlottean, we do have an ecellent skyline and it will continue to get better. Also, as a Southerner, I believe that the reason why cities in the South don't get that much attention is for the simple fact the city is in the South. The South has a pretty bad rep for its racial problems and the belief that we are slower down here. Some cases that may be true, nevertheless, I believe cities in the South have much to offer and may even perhaps one day carry the U.S. like NYC, Chicago, and LA have. I personally find it hard to place Houston or Dallas in the South given there location and I view Texas as a different animal. But that is just my opinion. I believe cities like Atlanta, Charlotte, Raleigh, Richmond, Jacksonville, and of course I can't leave out Miami will change these perceptions about Southern cities in the next 10-15 years. But once again, just my opinion.
Racial tension was part of life all over the U.S. - it wasn't and isn't something unique to the South.
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