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I would put Atlanta Houston and Seattle all over SF for your 3rd place... probably Dallas, Denver and Miami too, as well as Toronto and Vancouver if you wanna take it that far.
I was really surprised at how small SF was the first time I went there.
NYC and Chicago stand all by themselves as far as U.S. Cities go.
We are talking skylines here, hence skyscrapers, not landscapes...
Why would anyone want to work or live in a supertall skyscraper that sits barely 10 miles from an active fault?
+1 rep for the common sense post of the year!
Contrary to popular belief, modern highrises are actually some of the safest places to be during an earthquake. Skyscrapers in San Francisco have a very strict construction code to follow to make sure they're able to withstand earthquakes. Do you really think people would be stupid enough to build unstable buildings in such an earthquake prone region like California?
There are even a couple old skyscrapers in SF that survived the 1906 earthquake, and are still here today (not to mention every single highrise in SF withstood the 1989 earthquake with no problems whatsoever).
If we're counting both built and under construction buildings, its 2/5, or if we're only talking about complete buildings, it's 3/5. But yea, that was not a smart comment
Contrary to popular belief, modern highrises are actually some of the safest places to be during an earthquake. Skyscrapers in San Francisco have a very strict construction code to follow to make sure they're able to withstand earthquakes. Do you really think people would be stupid enough to build unstable buildings in such an earthquake prone region like California?
There are even a couple old skyscrapers in SF that survived the 1906 earthquake, and are still here today (not to mention every single highrise in SF withstood the 1989 earthquake with no problems whatsoever).
Indeed. When the next big one hits the Bay Area, the skyscrapers may be the few buildings left standing in S.F. Height is not directly proportional to vulnerability.
Chicago skyline is more Massive and is more spreaded out from south to north.Sf skyline looks good from many angeles from the bay.SF skyline isn't better than Chicago but probably has the best Landscape. La doesn't even deserve to be in the top 10 skylines in america i'm dissapointed with our skyline.Sf is in my opinion is the 3rd best skyline after Chi..
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San Francisco !
