Dallas Skyline vs San Francisco Skyline

[JoninATX]

Originally Posted by MB8abovetherim

Dallas like just about every other Texas city lacks density. That bugs me. It's either a super tall skyscraper or a parking lot Somewhere along the way during these city's development people must have been retarded because I notice that most Texas downtowns look great from a distance but at the street level there really isn't anything going on.

5 yrs ago I would have been saying the same thing. For example Austin is becoming a dense urban city, the real estate market is HOT and developers are buying up land. I can't even count how many project are proposed or under construction in Austin.

[dollaztx]

Originally Posted by JoninATX

5 yrs ago I would have been saying the same thing. For example Austin is becoming a dense urban city, the real estate market is HOT and developers are buying up land. I can't even count how many project are proposed or under construction in Austin.

Same goes for Dallas. Not many tall buildings above 30 stories have been built in the past decade but I can't even begin to name all the midrises, townhomes, condos that have been built or are getting built in and around downtown Dallas. To me these residential midrises are adding way more density than the office highrises built in the 80's.

Originally Posted by scrantiX

Dallas has a nice skyline but San Francisco's just looks bigger next to the bay. Wouldn't mind borrowing some buildings from Dallas. I like San Francisco's more obviously but I can acknowledge Dallas's nice skyline.

Best response so far. Preference without resorting to plain bashing while acknowledging the other's strengths.

[Metro Matt]

Originally Posted by john_starks

SF is a midrise city with talls but dense

Dallas has the talls, but not tall enough

While Dallas doesn't have any "super talls" like cities such as NYC, Chicago, Houston, or LA it does have some pretty tall buildings in its skyline.

Most notable are the Bank of America Plaza (green neon building), Renaissance Tower (XX building), & Reunion Tower (golf ball building).

[Dallaz]

Originally Posted by MB8abovetherim

Dallas like just about every other Texas city lacks density. That bugs me. It's either a super tall skyscraper or a parking lot Somewhere along the way during these city's development people must have been retarded because I notice that most Texas downtowns look great from a distance but at the street level there really isn't anything going on.

You can that the 80s for that. Dallas was dense back then but a lot of structures were demolished for skyscrapers, but a lot of them were not built. So, the land was turned into parking lots.