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They have 2 skylines DT ATL and Buckhead and both are small and spread out even more than Dallas and Houston which is why I dont like IMO. The buildings arent your typical boxy sunbelt high rises but the skylines are pitifully small for Atlantas size and DT ATL skyline is spread out
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Sorry we can't be as dense as Philly, NYC, or Chicago...that's what makes Houston different from every other major city in America. Houston & cities in Asia take the same approach when it comes to plopping up randomly placed skyscrapers. They're built the same way.
No zoning is both a blessing & a curse.
You won't find any US city with as tall of buildings located so far outside of the CBD as you will in Houston.
Houston has the largest, densest, & tallest medical skyline in the world. Not even NYC or Chicago can touch it.
The Texas Medical Center alone rivals most mid sized cities downtowns in size.
Certain angles around town you can capture the illusion of Houston as a mini Chicago or NYC with the skyline stretching across the horizon as far as the eye can see.
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The Houston argument is losing steam. Now going to bat against Chicago and New York. Yah OK. LOL! Those oil tank farms do add a nice touch.
The Houston argument is losing steam. Now going to bat against Chicago and New York. Yah OK. LOL!
agree if anything that distance looks more the scale of the Philly Skyline and Houston actually has more buildings, I wonder if some of these folks have ever seen Chicago or NYC, they are just on a completly different scale to every other US skyline. Comparisons to these loose credibility. I personally prefer the view of Chicago and it is very large but even said in NYC the wall of buildings is just massive, even compared to Chicago which is on another level to any other US city, there are a bunch of cities in the next cluster and all more similar than different
AH yes, another one of those who can't appreciate anything outside the urban jungles of NYC or Chicago. I pitty such a closed mind.
I can appreciate cities outside of NYC and Chicago but to anecdote any other city skyline to a level on par with NYC and Chicago is homerism. NYC and Chicago have skylines light years ahead of any other city to say Atlanta, LA, or Houston have skylines that can compete is rather stupid
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I can appreciate cities outside of NYC and Chicago but to anecdote any other city skyline to a level on par with NYC and Chicago is homerism.
I don't live anywhere near Atlanta, and the comparison was between Houston and Atlanta. The homer is in Houston. Chicago and NYC has nothing to do with it. I like most major cities in this country.
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