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Neither skyline is really long with a lot of density across the water like cities such as New York, Chicago or Miami. Both of them seem like they go back away from the water instead of on the water if you know what I mean. Therefore they both make better aerial shots than on the water shots.
The Toronto aerial posted doesn't even show half of the core, just the Financial District. Nor does it show the massive lakefront highrise development on the CN rail lands.
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You got it.
This Toronto gushing is incredulous bordering on embarrassment.
Philadelphia closer to Toronto than Toronto is to Chicago.
Philadlephia is closer to Toronto than Atl Mia Hous are to Philadephia.
After the city passes the 1000 building mark, it starts to feel more of the same no matter what city you're in (that's why downtown Chicago and downtown Toronto feel very similar, yes I have been Toronto is my favorite city outside of US) unless the city has over 3000+ buildings then it enters a new level. (NYC & Hong Kong)
You're exaggerating, and you know it.
Number of Highrises in each city (Tall Buildings): Philadelphia: 329 Toronto: 1814 Chicago: 1111
If you have a source or link that you can prove my post wrong, but Emporis is a highly reliable source, and don't even bother with skyscraperpage.com (My friend is the creator of it- the population and number of buildings isn't displayed properly)
But don't even bother saying, "I have been to Toronto, and Philadelphia feels more dense and has more buildings..." state facts with facts.
I mean seriously anyone whose ever been to Philadelphia & Houston with an unbiased mind would know which one is bigger.
I understand why Philadelphia gets the support that it does. It's an impressive skyline with great density, but to take on a mega-skyline like Toronto, it's laughable!
What next, Tokyo; Shanghai? The sky's is the limit at this point!
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Oh and I forgot to state this earlier, I'm going with Toronto. It's clearly my kind of skyline. Nice modern looking towers, tall buildings, good water front (as good as it gets for these two cities), and the mass of buildings. What an unfair advantage.
The reason the CN Tower (the needle looking building) sticks out so much is because it's the 2nd tallest free standing structure in the world after the Burj Khalifa, the CN Tower stands at 553 meters.
Philadelphia's tallest building stands at 297 meters (Just a little over half of CN Tower's height). Even without the CN Tower, Toronto's 2nd tallest is 355 meters tall. No comparison.
Oh and don't even bother playing that trick about "there used to be a height restriction" that's sucker play, freakin Dubai created the tallest skyline in the world in the past 20 years, 10 years after Philadelphia's height restriction was put off. I hate when people whine and say unnecessary BS like that to justify their post. So don't even go there.
Philadelphia should try to go off and compete with Dallas first before it competes with Toronto. That's just my opinion, it can sound harsh, but it's true, this would be like Charlotte comparing it's skyline to Los Angeles... you can like Charlotte's downtown more, hell you can even like Charlotte's building more, but you have to give Los Angeles the win in overall skyline...
If you have a source or link that you can prove my post wrong, but Emporis is a highly reliable source, and don't even bother with skyscraperpage.com (My friend is the creator of it- the population and number of buildings isn't displayed properly)
But don't even bother saying, "I have been to Toronto, and Philadelphia feels more dense and has more buildings..." state facts with facts.
I mean seriously anyone whose ever been to Philadelphia & Houston with an unbiased mind would know which one is bigger.
Please tell me that is an old picture, because that just doesn't impress me at all.
That is an old picture.
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