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do you see how much more packed in San Diego is? Sure Denver might have a couple of taller buildings but what about the surrounding area? Anyone can clearly see how lifeless and unappealing denver gets right after you leave the tall buildings, parking lots everywhere, huge areas with nothing, San Diego is much more vibrant and developed in contrast
Here we go again. You posted one aerial that's about 15 yrs old and another aerial that's about 20 yrs old. Those two aerials of Denver have too many highrises/skyscrapers missing. Come back to me when you stop trolling and decide to post an actual aerial of Denver from THIS decade.
As far as being more filled in, this says otherwise:
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Originally Posted by Back-up
Denver has 34 highrise buildings between 300-500 feet tall AND 7 highrise buildings between 500-800 feet tall. Denver's tallest building is 714 feet. 41 highrise buildings total over 300 ft tall. Over 200 highrises in total.
San Diego has 30 highrise buildings between 300-500 feet tall and San Diego's tallest building is 500 feet. 30 highrise buildings in total over 300 ft tall. Over 140 highrises in total.
As you can see, this isn't even close. Denver has a much taller skyline, taller buildings, more highrises and Denver is considerably more urban than San Diego. It's a fact. So everyone move on. Denver has, hands-down, won those categories.
As you can see, it's not even CLOSE when it comes to infill. You done making a fool of yourself now?
do you see how much more packed in San Diego is? Sure Denver might have a couple of taller buildings but what about the surrounding area? Anyone can clearly see how lifeless and unappealing denver gets right after you leave the tall buildings, parking lots everywhere, huge areas with nothing, San Diego is much more vibrant and developed in contrast
You really are working hard to find bad pics of Denver and good ones of SD aren't you? And thise picture of Denver show a pretty dense looking area (for a inland city).
These cities are so close in density, what is the point in even caring? It isn't like we're comparing LA to NYC's density, so I think it's a wash. But if you think SD looks more dense, that is your opinion, so I won't debate that.
Do you see the difference or do you have some special trolling shades on? As you can see, the whole left side of downtown Denver hasn't even been developed yet in your aerial. Also, keep in mind that EVERYTHING between and around the skyscrapers are filled with lowrise buildings as shown in the last pic. San Diego, however, is full of gaps and holes between it's highrises. Try again.
Last edited by Back-up; 07-17-2012 at 03:13 AM..
Reason: Added additional pic
Here we go again. You posted one aerial that's about 15 yrs old and another aerial that's about 20 yrs old. Those two aerials of Denver have too many highrises/skyscrapers missing. Come back to me when you stop trolling and decide to post an actual aerial of Denver from THIS decade.
As far as being more filled in, this says otherwise:
As you can see, it's not even CLOSE when it comes to infill. You done making a fool of yourself now?
If you put Denver's 7 tallest buildings in San Diego's skyline, all those buildings wouldn't even be prominent. It's an optical illusion because all of the highrises in San Diego are stumpy little 500 (or less) footers that are uniform and about the same size. Take away the 7 tallest buildings in Denver and Denver STILL has more highrises between 300-500 ft. tall. I'm not exactly sure what your trying to prove.
If you chopped Denver's tallest buildings in half, Denver's skyline would look uniform and elongated just like San Diego's. Not to mention that Denver's skyline is built into a square while San Diego's is stretched out into a long line. It's nearly impossible to captures all of Denver's buildings into one skyline photo, unlike San Diego. Denver has 41 highrise buildings over 300 ft. tall and San Diego only has 30 highrise buildings over 300 ft. tall. It's not even debatable. Denver has a MUCH larger skyline. Yawn, try again
LOL was that picture suppose to impress me? It just shows how quickly suburban denver gets right after leaving the skyscraper part of downtown
Impress you? No, I'm trying to show you how much of a homer you are to keep posting these outdated aerials of Denver that clearly don't represent what the city looks like today. Also, everything in that picture is far from suburban. Denver is full of low rise density including Capitol Hill (lower right of my aerial) which is one of the most urban neighborhoods in Denver. Downtown Denver is so tall compared to its surrounding infill, that it gives the illusion that the surrounding neighborhoods are nonexistent. In reality, most of those square blocks in this aerial are high-density, lowrise buildings and historic Victorian homes. This is much more apparent in aerials from lower altitudes. But I don't expect you to comprehend that considering your only agenda here is to bash Denver.
Although I know better, these pictures sure do make Denver look much more green. Whenever I've been in San Diego, it always seemed more "green" than Denver. Maybe I've let stereotypes cloud my judgement every time I've traveled to Denver... I also think the stereotypes about Denver being brown is a little overblown. Although I have very little experience with Denver suburbs, Denver proper always seemed adequately green to me, regardless of how the greenery got there. Trees do line quite a few roads and neighborhoods.
How could anybody say that San Diego is more densely built than Denver? Look at all the space and parking lots in-between San Diego's highrises compared to the virtually fully built, lowrise occupied space in-between and around Denver's highrises? Furthermore, this is only half of downtown Denver. It's not even close. Sorry. Denver is much more urban.
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Here we go again. You posted one aerial that's about 15 yrs old and another aerial that's about 20 yrs old. Those two aerials of Denver have too many highrises/skyscrapers missing. Come back to me when you stop trolling and decide to post an actual aerial of Denver from THIS decade. 
