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View Poll Results: Better skyline?
Montreal 243 53.17%
Houston 214 46.83%
Voters: 457. You may not vote on this poll

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Old 08-16-2009, 10:53 PM
 
Location: H_town, Texas
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now if yall look at the pictures that polo89 just posted, you would see what a real skyline is supposed to look like...Houston doesnt just have 1 skyline but 3,or maybe more than 3...and to me Houston looks more urbanized with all the buildings scattered in different places...so my vote goes to H-town,Texas. Montreal does have a nice skyline, but to me, its not better than Houstons.

 
Old 08-20-2009, 03:55 AM
 
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now if yall look at the pictures that polo89 just posted, you would see what a real skyline is supposed to look like...Houston doesnt just have 1 skyline but 3,or maybe more than 3...and to me Houston looks more urbanized with all the buildings scattered in different places...so my vote goes to H-town,Texas. Montreal does have a nice skyline, but to me, its not better than Houstons.
Indeed.
 
Old 08-30-2009, 04:13 PM
 
Location: Galvezton and Bell-aire, Texas
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Old 08-30-2009, 04:15 PM
 
Location: Galvezton and Bell-aire, Texas
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Old 08-30-2009, 06:59 PM
 
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Montreal is a more fluid city where the dense downtown melts into the University district and the surrounding city.

Houston always frustrated me because the downtown wasn't very dense, although there were a lot of tall buildings in the core - but the kicker was the damn interstates that completely cut off downtown from the surrounding areas. I HATE it when cities do things like that.
 
Old 08-30-2009, 07:39 PM
 
Location: Underneath the Pecan Tree
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Montreal is a more fluid city where the dense downtown melts into the University district and the surrounding city.

Houston always frustrated me because the downtown wasn't very dense, although there were a lot of tall buildings in the core - but the kicker was the damn interstates that completely cut off downtown from the surrounding areas. I HATE it when cities do things like that.
Don't you mean small? Houston's skyline is pretty dense.
 
Old 08-30-2009, 09:02 PM
 
Location: Toronto
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Montreal is a more fluid city where the dense downtown melts into the University district and the surrounding city.

Houston always frustrated me because the downtown wasn't very dense, although there were a lot of tall buildings in the core - but the kicker was the damn interstates that completely cut off downtown from the surrounding areas. I HATE it when cities do things like that.
Montreal is also much older, longer established, and is very well planned. Main reason why it takes the cake and is more of a fluent city than Houston is.
 
Old 08-31-2009, 03:20 AM
 
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I am loving these pics.
 
Old 08-31-2009, 05:52 AM
 
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Montreal is also much older, longer established, and is very well planned. Main reason why it takes the cake and is more of a fluent city than Houston is.
I wouldn't say it takes the cake, what Houston lacks in fluency, it makes up in girth, architecture, and quantity. And what Montreal HAS in fluency and density, it lacks in what Houston has.
 
Old 08-31-2009, 06:19 PM
 
Location: H_town, Texas
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i really like those pictures that were just posted of TMA....
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