Houston vs. Dallas (architecture, metro, buildings)

[Nate the Post Hole Digger]

Originally Posted by RayStokes

DFW has also been neglected by TXDOT for years and has only in the past few years begun expanding their freeway system. As you probably already know they're all still under construction.

The truth is that Houston and DFW both have some of the worst traffic in the entire country. Both areas don't put enough thought or money into public transport. There's hardly anything efficient about either place, and all the freeway lanes in the world are not going to cut down on traffic so long as both cities continue their endless sprawl.

But both cities are major distribution centers. When you have lots of warehouses, industries, and business districts, you need the sprawl of housing for both white and blue collar workers.

Houston doesn't have lots of suburban cities that zone, but it does have unincorporated planned communities. These communities are built mainly for the upper management who don't want to live with the kinds of people they employ (as humorous as that might sound). Or, let me ask you. When the day comes for The Woodlands to become its own legitimate city apart from Houston, will it decide to incorporate city planning by adopting zoning? If not, the city would be going against the original intentions of the planned community which were meant to keep it exclusive.

Warehouse districts themselves just take up a lot of space. Once they get built, then other industries move in. Then communities not only have to be built, but they have to be distanced apart enough to separate the different classes of people.

Wealthy people are always dreadfully afraid of having an apartment complex built too close by as it might lower the property values of their houses. One can see how this need to separate people into classes is a major but necessary contributor of sprawl.

[TexasTallest]

Originally Posted by dallasboi

My place of work.........oh....and a Lil eye candy.

DALLAS SKYLINE - YouTube

i was trying to figure out whats up with all the burnt out section of LED but then i realized this was video from the failed opening ceremony.

Originally Posted by Nate the Post Hole Digger

Warehouse districts themselves just take up a lot of space.

ive always wondered why they dont stack warehouses and build ramps/elevated decks for trucks to drive up to the higher levels.

[annie_himself]

Originally Posted by SouthernBoy205

Aww cut annie_himself some slack.

You see that huh lol

[dallasboi]

Originally Posted by TexasTallest

i was trying to figure out whats up with all the burnt out section of LED but then i realized this was video from the failed opening ceremony.



ive always wondered why they dont stack warehouses and build ramps/elevated decks for trucks to drive up to the higher levels.

None of the bulbs were burnt out in that video...The few that burned out burned out shortly after the presentation.

[Nairobi]

Originally Posted by SouthernBoy205

Aww cut annie_himself some slack.

I'm not being hard on him.

[stoneclaw]

No one is hard on annie_himself. Annie_himself is hard on Houston.

[dollaztx]

Since we're discussing Dallas lighting, I thought I would share this which I found pretty cool when Conan came to town. I just find it nice that the skyline can synchronize any event without much effort and cost to change bulbs and whatnot.



Mike Brooks - TEAMCOCO
The CONAN-Themed Dallas Skyline Reflected In The Trinity River @ TeamCoco.com

[TexasTallest]

Originally Posted by dallasboi

None of the bulbs were burnt out in that video...The few that burned out burned out shortly after the presentation.

You sure about that? Watch it in full screen and tell me there aren't at least half a dozen sections burnt out... Unless they were purposely skipping the same small tracts of lighting over and over again..?

[stoneclaw]

I'm so jealous of the Dallas skyline at night. It looks like a show on stage.

[Jack Lance]

Originally Posted by stoneclaw

I'm so jealous of the Dallas skyline at night. It looks like a show on stage.

That is just plain pathetic