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View Poll Results: Which skyline looks better?
Dallas 218 33.44%
San Francisco 434 66.56%
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Old 03-08-2011, 08:56 PM
 
Location: The City
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Great pics, Dallaz. That 6th pic makes State-Thomas look sooooo planned, though.

I did see that too; seems so odd for such a suburban type form development to be right on top of the downtown - those apts look so uniform and a big box Walmart to boot

I have always liked a lot of the skyscraper architecture in the Dallas downtown

 
Old 03-08-2011, 08:56 PM
 
Location: Dallas, Texas
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SF is an interesting lookin city, Dallas has the better skyline though. In SF you have the compact downtown sklyine, in Dallas theres quite a bit of highrises outside of what is considered downtown. The two cities are just developed differently.
 
Old 03-08-2011, 09:00 PM
 
Location: Dallas,Texas
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Great pics, Dallaz. That 6th pic makes State-Thomas look sooooo planned, though.
I think that's the new developments surrounding State Thomas.
 
Old 03-08-2011, 09:00 PM
 
Location: America
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I did see that too; seems so odd for such a suburban type form development to be right on top of the downtown - those apts look so uniform and a big box Walmart to boot

I have always liked a lot of the skyscraper architecture in the Dallas downtown
State-Thomas is actually a new urbanist neighborhood with a collection townhomes and Victorian houses in a pretty walkable area. It's new and sterile, but there isn't much suburban about it. But yeah, that Wal-Mart is very unfortunate.
 
Old 03-08-2011, 09:05 PM
 
Location: Dallas,Texas
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I think the State Thomas neighborhood is kinda old. That area is a Dallas Landmark. It also has the largest collection of Victorian homes in Dallas.
 
Old 03-08-2011, 09:11 PM
 
Location: Dallas,Texas
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State-Thomas is actually a new urbanist neighborhood with a collection townhomes and Victorian houses in a pretty walkable area. It's new and sterile, but there isn't much suburban about it. But yeah, that Wal-Mart is very unfortunate.
At least it is only a Walmart Neighborhood Market (Grocery Store). A supercenter would be worse!
 
Old 03-08-2011, 09:12 PM
 
Location: City of Angels
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decent skyline but the surrounding area just looks so boring and empty.
 
Old 03-08-2011, 09:16 PM
 
Location: Dallas, Texas
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The walmart (neighborhood market) looks worse in the aerial than when youre on the ground. You really dont even see it unless ur on the freeway frontage road and its not very big.
 
Old 03-08-2011, 09:27 PM
 
Location: America
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I think the State Thomas neighborhood is kinda old. That area is a Dallas Landmark. It also has the largest collection of Victorian homes in Dallas.
The original S-T is a historical neighborhood, but, it's filled in and surrounded by those new townhomes. This is you city, bruh, you know this lol.

In the aerial shot, it looks very bland almost suburban; but on the street level it's a very nice area, IMO.
 
Old 03-08-2011, 09:27 PM
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Location: Oakland
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SF is an interesting lookin city, Dallas has the better skyline though. In SF you have the compact downtown sklyine, in Dallas theres quite a bit of highrises outside of what is considered downtown. The two cities are just developed differently.
As nice as this looks:






I fail to see how you can come to the conclusion that it's bigger than this:


All sizes | bernal heights south panorama | Flickr - Photo Sharing! (http://www.flickr.com/photos/pbo31/4747737353/sizes/l/in/photostream/ - broken link)


All sizes | before the masses | Flickr - Photo Sharing! (http://www.flickr.com/photos/pbo31/3607533077/sizes/l/in/photostream/ - broken link)


All sizes | before the heat | Flickr - Photo Sharing! (http://www.flickr.com/photos/pbo31/2495602008/sizes/o/in/photostream/ - broken link)


All sizes | s.f. night pano section 2 of 3 | Flickr - Photo Sharing! (http://www.flickr.com/photos/pbo31/5232137203/sizes/l/in/photostream/ - broken link)


sf skyline from alameda (http://www.flickr.com/photos/84423669@N00/3170037012/ - broken link) by F.X.Enderby (http://www.flickr.com/people/84423669@N00/ - broken link), on Flickr

You call that compact? Stats as well as pictures prove that it's larger and denser than the Dallas skyline...so i guess Dallas has an ultra-compact skyline?

But i can see how one might consider Dallas to have a better skyline, if you happen to really like the buildings in Dallas, and/or have a special thing about the form of it's skyline or whatever...it's opinion. But in terms of actual numbers, SF wins here.
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