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Im also gonna select NOLA. When I visited, I was shocked at how small the population was.
NOLA's skyline was raised when it was a city of 600k and a metro area larger as well. I really don't think New Orleans city pop is a good size metric for it post Katrina.
It is not about "skylines". It is about street vibrancy.
I just visited Lisbon, Portugal. With a metro population of 2.8 million, it feels bigger than most American cities with much larger population, such as Boston, Seattle, Washington DC, Atlanta, Phoenix, Dallas, Miami etc. It feels as big as San Francisco.
American cities almost always appear to be smaller than what their population says (maybe except NYC), and that includes vibrant cities based on American standard such as Boston and San Francisco. When most of the residents live away from the city center and spend most of their time in the suburbs either fixing their suburban homes or doing their suburban things, instead of walking, shopping, dinning, drinking in the city center itself, of course the city feels smaller.
Even Chicago feels smaller than Madrid. The hustle-bustle of downtown dies out really fast.
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Not really Cincy is just right. Louisville feels much bigger imo.
I agree that Louisville feels a lot larger than comparable metros, though I still think Cincinnati's entrance from the south is far more impressive. In Louisville's case topography forces the core area to be dense, there are 900k people in just in the core part of the flood plain (an area with maybe 300 sq miles), which is way more than Charlotte or even Atlanta despite the overall metro being much smaller. I-65 cuts through the edge of downtown and literally winds around 20 story buildings. I-65 south of downtown is also massive, up to 18 lanes across in one spot.
It doesn't, ABQ metro has almost 2 million people. The skyline actually matches what the soils in the valley will let you build.
The state of New Mexico itself has about 2.1million people so i'm not sure where you're getting that "almost 2million" number. Albuquerque's MSA has a land area larger than the state of New Jersey with a population over 900,000. If you include it's CSA which is gigantic in land size you have 1,150,000 people according to estimates, included in that is the city of Las Vegas which is 120 miles away. To me that's disengenuous and selective math to make the city look bigger.
In the case of Albuquerque urban population (750,000) is a far better metric for how big it actually is. It's sky matches every other desert southwest city which are under built from a height standpoint and often lack vibrancy.
Phoenix is basically a much larger version of ABQ. For a city with 1.5M (and that's just city proper) its skyline is absolutely pitiful (I know that there are height restrictions due to the proximity of the airport, but still...)
There are cities 1/3 its size that have far more impressive skylines.
Phoenix is basically a much larger version of ABQ. For a city with 1.5M (and that's just city proper) its skyline is absolutely pitiful (I know that there are height restrictions due to the proximity of the airport, but still...)
There are cities 1/3 its size that have far more impressive skylines.
Phoenix has a decent number of high rises when you had in uptown. But you're right it's pretty pitiful. The Airport height restrictions are only a small excuse. Phoenix's biggest problem is that the bat s*** crazy native Arizonans suffer emotional collapse and will stop at nothing to prevent anything of real significance being built in the city. They abhor and prevent change at all costs. There have been a number of cool buildings with actual height proposed over the years, and that small minority make the fight not worth it for the developer. I have found that the same type of people do the same thing in Tucson, locking it's core into some of the countries finest mediocrity as well.
i'm not sure where you're getting that "almost 2million" number
Whoops That's the population of my state. May seem like a lot but keep in mind New Mexico is big.
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Umm... the ABQ metro is about 900K. The entire STATE of New Mexico has about 2 million people.
Right that's what I was thinking of. The metro as its known here stands at 1.1M. That's about 53% of the entire population of the state and rapidly growing!
Little Rock always impresses me while driving over the I-30 bridge. Esp. now with the newly added buildings in the River Market district.
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