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Why isn't Miami on the list? I'm not saying it would've won, but it's better then at LEAST 4 of the cities that DID make this list. Weird.
It's not weird that Miami isn't on this list because this poll was created October 9, 2007. At that time, Miami's "new" skyline was so new that few people even knew Miami had a skyline. I can understand a lot of people not voting for it because it lacks height and has a lot of white condos with blue-green glass, but enough tall buildings overall did make it to construction to give Miami the third largest skyline in the U.S. Give it about 10 more years, and you probably will consider it third best then, if the world is still here.
I hate the look of all the high-rises along the beach in Miami,they all look the same, anyways I voted for Seattle.
There are no beaches in the city of Miami. The high-rises along the beach in Miami Beach are in the City of Miami Beach, just like South Beach is a district of the City of Miami Beach (South Beach, Mid Beach, then North Beach). Then, you have the City of Surfside, the City of Bal Harbour, and then the City of Sunny Isles Beach which has the second largest skyline in the State of Florida. The City of Miami is on Biscayne Bay, just like San Francisco is on San Francisco Bay. And while you might think the high-rises here in South Florida all look the same, they are not, and I could say the same thing about just about any other city if I wanted.
I have never quite understood the appeal of Seattle's skyline over so many of the others listed. I voted for San Francisco. Seattle just doesn't have enough tall buildings for me.
For many years, the World Almanac and Book of Facts (my reference before websites) has listed all buildings in North American cities that were over 400 feet tall except for New York and Chicago where it only listed buildings over 500 feet tall because of the sheer number.
In 2008, a number of cities had amassed so many buildings over 400 feet that for some American cities, it will only list buildings starting at 450 feet tall and up after New York and Chicago. Those cities in alphabetical order are Dallas, Houston, Las Vegas, Los Angeles, Miami, San Francisco, and Toronto. For me, it was a toss-up between Houston's height overall (the most over 500 feet tall outside of New York and Chicago) and San Francisco's natural setting (with its skyline accented by its bay, hills and suspension bridges).
This is part of Miami's CBD and Brickell Financial District. There are more skyscrapers (buildings over 500 feet tall) all around the periphery of this photograph I took three weeks ago, and they weren't all just recently built.
The space needle was waaaaaaaay ahead of it's time when it was built.
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