Skyline Competition 2: Los Angeles vs. Atlanta (live, best, highest, people)

[Mezter]

Originally Posted by Stars&StripesForever

The Atlanta skyline, by far. The L.A. skyline is smaller than the Atlanta skyline, despite L.A. having three times more people (L.A. 17 million, Atlanta 5.5 million).

From 10 miles away:

http://www.rickholliday.com/img/v12/p561065612-3.jpg


http://farm1.static.flickr.com/42/79...d9bfcef4a8.jpg


http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4033/...f1d3c03b27.jpg


http://www.migrationanthro.com/images/atlanta_skyline.jpg (broken link)

If you include all of Atlantas skylines, its bigger than LA, but there is no way that Downtown Atlanta And Midtown together could be larger than Los Angeles...Atleast thats what I think.

[Stars&StripesForever]

Originally Posted by Mezter

If you include all of Atlantas skylines, its bigger than LA, but there is no way that Downtown Atlanta And Midtown together could be larger than Los Angeles...Atleast thats what I think.

You've got it backwards.

The Downtown-Midtown Atlanta Skyline is bigger than the downtown L.A. skyline.

However, even with Atlanta's suburban skylines (technically, Buckhead is in the city), the L.A. area has more of them.

Here's the L.A. skyline from somewhere around five to ten miles away (no telescopic lens)


http://0.tqn.com/d/budgettravel/1/0/6/3/la_skyline.jpg

Here's Atlanta from ten miles away (no telescopic lens)

http://www.ajc.com/multimedia/dynamic/00382/107100231_-2_382018c.jpg (broken link)

[Howest2008]

There are 214 Skyscrapers in Luke Warm Atlanta
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...ngs_in_Atlanta


http://bits.wikimedia.org/skins-1.17/common/images/magnify-clip.png (broken link)
Skyline of Atlanta at night (Use cursor to identify buildings)

There are 505 Skyscrapers in Los Angeles
List of tallest buildings in Los Angeles - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia


http://bits.wikimedia.org/skins-1.17/common/images/magnify-clip.png (broken link)

[pwright1]

Originally Posted by Stars&StripesForever

You've got it backwards.

The Downtown-Midtown Atlanta Skyline is bigger than the downtown L.A. skyline.

However, even with Atlanta's suburban skylines (technically, Buckhead is in the city), the L.A. area has more of them.

Here's the L.A. skyline from somewhere around five to ten miles away (no telescopic lens)


http://0.tqn.com/d/budgettravel/1/0/6/3/la_skyline.jpg

Here's Atlanta from ten miles away (no telescopic lens)

From a distance and up close LA's is larger and far more dense

[Nightscape]

Some great aerial shots-

[Stars&StripesForever]

Originally Posted by Howest2008

There are 214 Skyscrapers in Luke Warm Atlanta
List of tallest buildings in Atlanta - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia



Skyline of Atlanta at night (Use cursor to identify buildings)

There are 505 Skyscrapers in Los Angeles
List of tallest buildings in Los Angeles - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

And those 505 are spread around the metro, as Atlanta's 214 are spread around the metro. Downtown-wise, however, Atlanta has a larger skyline. I've contended that LA has more suburban skylines than Atlanta and, thus, has more buildings overall. Atlanta's cbd, however, is larger than LA's.

[Stars&StripesForever]

Originally Posted by pwright1

From a distance and up close LA's is larger and far more dense

They have a few areas/streets where the buildings are like that, side by side, and composed of midrises. Sure, LA beats Atlanta in that type of density. That said, it's skyline is not more impressive, and the cbd is only minimally more dense, considering all the infill that has taken place in Atlanta's cbd over the past ten years.

[Stars&StripesForever]

Originally Posted by Howest2008

There are 214 Skyscrapers in Luke Warm Atlanta
List of tallest buildings in Atlanta - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia



Skyline of Atlanta at night (Use cursor to identify buildings)

There are 505 Skyscrapers in Los Angeles
List of tallest buildings in Los Angeles - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

What do you know, from that angle, half of Atlanta's skyline is out of view. Yet, much less than half of L.A.'s skyline is out of view.

Atlanta wins.

[brent6969]

ATL, looks pretty damn hot..............


Night Flight over Atlanta downtown - YouTube

[Howest2008]

Originally Posted by Stars&StripesForever

And those 505 are spread around the metro, as Atlanta's 214 are spread around the metro. Downtown-wise, however, Atlanta has a larger skyline. I've contended that LA has more suburban skylines than Atlanta and, thus, has more buildings overall. Atlanta's cbd, however, is larger than LA's.

I like Atlanta skyline (CBD) at this moment the best because LA haven't cleaned up it's air pollution as of yet , but when they do that 10,000 foot Mountain in the background is going to blow away everybody skyline even NYC.....I like Los Angeles Metro Skyline much more than Atlanta...