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No links, but I like to keep it as compact and tight as the buildings themselves, so this quick guide provides IMO the best streets in each city's CBD in terms of cohesiveness of high floor-to-area ratios and most distinct canyons, just by taking a simple 3D view on Google Maps:
Austin (not sure if its under 3 million now): Congress Ave plus Lavaca and Brazos streets
Baltimore: Charles, Light/St. Paul, Calvert, Lombard, Redwood, Baltimore, Fayette streets
Birmingham: 19th and 20th streets, plus Richard Arrington Jr. Blvd.
Buffalo: Delaware Ave. plus Main and Pearl streets (with Main being like a mini-LaSalle street with the One Seneca Tower at the end)
Charlotte: Tyron, College, Trade streets
Cincinnati: 4th, 5th, 6th, Main, Vine, Walnut, and Sycamore streets
Cleveland: Euclid Ave, Superior Ave, 9th Street
Columbus: Broad and High streets
Hartford: Pearl and Trumbull streets
Indianapolis: Illinois, Ohio, Market, Meridian (with Monument Circle in the middle of the former two), Pennsylvania, and Washington streets
Jacksonville: Bay, Forsyth, Hogan, Julia, and Laura streets
Kansas City: Baltimore Ave. plus Main, Walnut, 10th, and 12th streets
Louisville: 4th, 5th, and Main streets
Memphis: Main and Second streets plus Madison Ave
Milwaukee: Wisconsin Ave. and Water Street (the later like a mini-Wacker Drive)
Nashville: 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th Avenues plus Church and Union streets
New Orleans: St. Charles Ave plus Poydras, Baronne, Canal, Common, Gravier, Carondelet streets By far the densest core in the Deep South.
Orlando: Orange Ave
Pittsburgh: Grant, Smithfeld, and Wood streets; Fourth Ave, Forbes Ave, Fifth Ave, Sixth Ave Liberty Ave
Portland: 2nd, 5th, and 6th Avenues, Broadway, plus Alder, Salmon, Taylor, Main, Madison, and Jefferson Streets (although a few are interrupted by a ribbon of parks)
Providence: Wesminster Steet
Raleigh: Fayetteville Street
Richmond: 7th, 8th, and Main streets
Salt Lake City: Main street (isn't in remarkable how in many mid-sized cities how Main Street is one of the densest?)
Tampa: Florida Ave. plus Franklin, Jackson, and Tampa streets
Then you have Las Vegas in which the peculiar placement of the casinos along the strip and downtown give a weird feeling between canyon and a roadside building.
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