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Old 01-02-2021, 11:49 AM
 
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Originally Posted by atadytic19 View Post
Oddly enough it also includes central America and the Caribbean; although those countries don't have skylines so it doesn't really matter to this thread, but I what you mean. In here people act like NA= 2 countries when in fact its like dozens.
You might have forgot about Panama City, Panama in Central America.

https://images.search.yahoo.com/sear...c&action=click

Seems to be a contender.....

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Old 01-02-2021, 01:26 PM
 
Location: Manhattan!
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mexico city is asking if people forgot it’s in north america?
CDMX doesn’t really have a ton of skylines though. They have the centro historico and paseo de la reforma, but not really any other notable real skylines outside of a few highrise clusters. Maybe that cluster south of la condesa...
 
Old 01-02-2021, 01:42 PM
 
Location: Odenton, MD
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Great to know TO already best NYC in something though. Along with every other USA city. So where can the thread go next? You win TO has the most skylines as no one can refute your mighty list.... OP. Something tells me we were though this all before. Just not a thread specifically on multi-skylines for a city. We also do always forget Mexico City. Not that it matters in a TO win.... good job OP.
Toronto doesn’t have more TO nodes than greater NYC because a lot of those individuals nodes listed by the OP form part of larger singular CBD core/clusters. It’s about as accurate as me listing Hudson Yards as “separate” of Midtown because it’s half a mile away.


Mexico City is the only city in NA that can be compared to NYC on an urban lvl.
 
Old 01-02-2021, 03:56 PM
 
Location: Seattle WA, USA
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Seattle and its suburb of Bellevue. We are talking about an area that's less than a quarter the population of Toronto and Greater Toronto. Hence more impressive.

Bellevue: https://425business.com/wp-content/u...-Skyline-2.jpg
Seattle: https://static.seattletimes.com/wp-c...4-1560x883.jpg
Seattle obviously doesn't compare to Toronto, and in some ways not even Vancouver when it comes to multiple skylines/TOD. But that being said there is a third skyline developing in University District.
https://www.google.com/maps/@47.6530...7i16384!8i8192

There is also Tacoma, but it is kind of it's own city.
https://www.google.com/maps/@47.2436...7i16384!8i8192
 
Old 01-02-2021, 04:15 PM
 
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The only American city that "feels" like it has more skyscrapers/highrises spread out over a larger area than Toronto is the Miami metro area. There's downtown Miami, the 3rd tallest central skyline in the US, and then you have highrises dotting the Atlantic coast from South Beach all the way up to Ft. Lauderdale, which is a distance of over 30 miles; with a particularly impressive concentration of buildings in Sunny Isles beach..

New York may have more buildings than Toronto, but they're simply not sprawled out all over the region like they are in Toronto....
The concentration of buildings in Long Island City, downtown Brooklyn and Jersey city is impressive, but it's still just an area that really straddles Manhattan. If New York had the same layout of highrises that Toronto did, you'd have clusters as far away as Paterson, downtown Yonkers and places in Nassau county... When you leave the Manhattan area and its immediate surroundings, tall buildings drop off quite quickly; whereas in the Toronto metro area, you could be 30 - 40 minutes outside of the central core and still encounter impressive clusters of highrises....
 
Old 01-02-2021, 08:44 PM
 
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Seattle obviously doesn't compare to Toronto, and in some ways not even Vancouver when it comes to multiple skylines/TOD. But that being said there is a third skyline developing in University District.
https://www.google.com/maps/@47.6530...7i16384!8i8192

There is also Tacoma, but it is kind of it's own city.
https://www.google.com/maps/@47.2436...7i16384!8i8192
The U District had three highrises two years ago. It has four now. It'll have eight when two recent groundbreakings and two that are in site prep are topped out. Another 10(?) are planned. This won't impress anybody as a skyline, especially since most of these are in the 24-story range, but along with a light rail subway station opening this year and a fair amount of college/office growth, it's becoming a strong secondary downtown.
 
Old 01-03-2021, 11:59 AM
 
Location: Vancouver
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The question wasn't "who will have the best skyline in 20 years" or "who has the most proposed skyscrapers," we're talking about the here and the now.

300m+
Chicago: 7
Toronto: 0

250m+
Chicago: 15
Toronto: 6

200m+
Chicago: 32
Toronto: 23

150m+
Chicago: 126
Toronto: 69

But even your link mentions that the quality of TO's skyscrapers will fall very far short of what has been built in NYC or Chicago, which is definitely true. Comparing the most recent supertall in Chicago (St. Regis) to what's getting built in Toronto makes this even more obvious.
Watch this space.
 
Old 01-03-2021, 01:11 PM
 
Location: Shelby County, Tennessee
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Toronto has a ton of secondary skylines and build new ones from scratch all the time (currently over 200 highrises are under construction).
I was wondering does any other city have near the magnitude of secondary skylines that Toronto does.
I only know of Vancouver which has at least 10 secondary skylines.

Here is my list of 30 Greater Toronto skylines (20 within the city, 10 outside)
(fyi the google earth image is 5 years old and doesn't capture the hundreds of highrises that have been built since then)
Toronto

Central Skyline
https://live.staticflickr.com/1777/4...c1b4738b_k.jpg
https://i.redd.it/1h6l4bu7k2g51.jpg
https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/...0463bd07_k.jpg
https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/...7f542ac9_h.jpg
https://earth.google.com/web/@43.643...76.3196407t,0r

Regent Park
https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/...5470d167_h.jpg

Liberty Village
https://external-preview.redd.it/xTE...=webp&e40af707
https://i.redd.it/e30pc2d37s361.jpg

Yorkville-Bloor
https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/...d245afdb_h.jpg
https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/...949240ad_h.jpg
https://i.ibb.co/cgnPxtb/1-stitch.jpg
https://cdn.skyrisecities.com/sites/...645-128834.jpg
https://urbantoronto.ca/forum/attach...7-jpeg.217198/
https://live.staticflickr.com/1819/4...70fda1a7_k.jpg
https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/...3ce60463_h.jpg

St. Clair (Yonge to Avenue)
https://external-preview.redd.it/d8x...=webp&8c4f40f5
https://urbantoronto.ca/forum/attach...a-jpeg.179149/
https://urbantoronto.ca/forum/attach...07-jpg.213047/
https://earth.google.com/web/@43.688...5.96940508t,0r

St. Clair and Bathurst
https://d3e1m60ptf1oym.cloudfront.ne...26_xgaplus.jpg

Davisville and Yonge
https://earth.google.com/web/@43.715...01334578t,360r

Eglinton and Yonge
https://live.staticflickr.com/7882/3...ab0f28a6_h.jpg
https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/...5470d167_h.jpg
https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/...79b0eba8_h.jpg
https://urbantoronto.ca/forum/attach...21-jpg.270455/
https://earth.google.com/web/@43.708...0.26868682t,0r

North York City Centre
http://images.unoapp.com/boxdata/ass...eaderimage.jpg
https://c8.alamy.com/comp/F59CRE/aer...-st-F59CRE.jpg
https://www.123dentist.com/wp-conten...-ontario-1.jpg
https://earth.google.com/web/@43.763...4.52036809t,0r

Sheppard and Bayview
https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/...89f6eb18_h.jpg
https://earth.google.com/web/@43.765...9.45170642t,0r

Sheppard and Leslie
https://urbantoronto.ca/forum/attach...23-jpg.113994/
https://urbantoronto.ca/forum/attach...71-jpg.110864/
https://urbantoronto.ca/forum/attach...93-jpg.124806/
https://urbantoronto.ca/forum/attach...34-jpg.204183/
https://earth.google.com/web/@43.765...1.92799806t,0r

Sheppard and Don Mills
https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/...b95fc12c_b.jpg
https://urbantoronto.ca/forum/attach...32-jpg.272620/
https://earth.google.com/web/@43.779...79.5273409t,0r

401 and Kennedy
https://earth.google.com/web/@43.778...1.94360755t,0r

Scarborough Town Centre
https://live.staticflickr.com/1976/4...6f48c551_b.jpg
https://www.forrec.com/wp-content/up...4-1280x688.jpg
https://shared-s3.property.ca/public...original-3.jpg
https://earth.google.com/web/@43.777...82.1015227t,0r

Victoria Park and Sheppard
https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/...c3d7ab76_b.jpg
https://urbantoronto.ca/forum/attach...30-jpg.190090/

Eglinton and DVP
https://earth.google.com/web/@43.728...1.23017466t,0r

Humber Bayshore
https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/...55c18c9f_h.jpg
https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/...c9c697f2_o.jpg
https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/...dd758e79_b.jpg
https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/...d1b611ed_h.jpg
https://urbantoronto.ca/forum/attach...3-jpeg.210987/
https://earth.google.com/web/@43.623...1.95953522t,0r

Etobicoke City Centre
https://urbantoronto.ca/forum/attach...83-jpg.207545/
https://urbantoronto.ca/forum/attach...f-jpeg.187705/
https://earth.google.com/web/@43.655...30933818t,360r

Highway 427
https://urbantoronto.ca/forum/attach...27-jpg.215091/
https://earth.google.com/web/@43.640...9.74724514t,0r

Dundas-Bloor and Kipling
https://urbantoronto.ca/forum/attach...05-jpg.222423/
https://earth.google.com/web/@43.634...9.87469715t,0r

and Outside of the City limits:

Mississauga City Centre
https://www.skyscrapercity.com/cdn-c.../6-jpg.632971/
https://urbantoronto.ca/forum/attach...00-jpg.234104/
https://urbantoronto.ca/forum/attach...4-jpeg.271693/
https://earth.google.com/web/@43.593...8.8991744t,-0r
https://urbantoronto.ca/forum/attach...23-jpg.278472/

Hurontario and Eglinton
https://earth.google.com/web/@43.605...5.66114819t,0r

Port Credit
https://urbantoronto.ca/forum/attach...14-jpg.231415/
https://urbantoronto.ca/forum/attach...74-jpg.256742/
https://earth.google.com/web/@43.543...5.20120499t,0r

Brampton
https://mediatours.ca/upload/propert...88/1039366.jpg
https://mediatours.ca/upload/propert...88/1039368.jpg
https://earth.google.com/web/@43.687....51861512t,-0r

Vaughan Metropolitan Centre
https://urbantoronto.ca/forum/attach...88-jpg.274642/
https://cdn.skyrisecities.com/sites/...86-128405.jpeg

Bramalea
https://earth.google.com/web/@43.713...1.64615428t,0r

Burlington
https://urbantoronto.ca/forum/attach...61-jpg.152561/
https://urbantoronto.ca/forum/attach...77-jpg.154719/
https://urbantoronto.ca/forum/attach...34-jpg.247253/
https://earth.google.com/web/@43.329...1.61299809t,0r

Bronte
https://earth.google.com/web/@43.397...7.87750741t,0r

Markham
https://earth.google.com/web/@43.853...2.56544024t,0r
My Gosh . Daaaaang Toronto
 
Old 01-03-2021, 01:15 PM
 
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Watch this space.
We all know Toronto's numbers are going to grow.... especially if Canada continues to be positive on Asian immigration that needs to be educated of course.... and a US having its backlash by low-skilled illegal immigrants who about to the whole population of Canada.

Clearly, Canadians have pride in the rise of their major cities that highly grew by immigration and of course..... high-rise to skyscraper virtually unhampered speculating.

The totals for American cities will not stop. But the US is not into a intense Urbanizing trend at this time to fuel it. Some fast-rising cities by migrations and now slowed immigration.... still will make inroads into density. Just not the same projectery as it might have been before this covid era.

Canadians still hugging the US Border is certainly to continue as there is the most mild climate. Where the US Northern areas are generally far less sought still ongoing by migrations south.

Still you have to admit? The OP here with what portraying 60-skylines for TO .... was a huge boast. Clearly, Chicago is in the opposite corner with no one claiming it is a city of multiple skylines. No need to when its Core .... are all it needs to claim. No one is going to call some high-rise around the airport another skyline.

Still TO and Vancouver especially..... if height and scale is the boast here... clearly totals built currently and being planned to build .... can be boasted of and you are. US Cities can only have honorable mentions with Chicago its due and a Miami and NYC still getting its towers. Newer fast-growing cities making inroads... just nothing on the scale of a TO.

Seems TO will over time be boasted as the next mega-city that may get there before a Chicagoland even starts to grow again to hit the 10-mil mark it never did. Time will tell and the US many cities each fighting for relocations to boast its values and migrations...... split a every growing or shrinking pie.

No one sees a US building a Vancouver scale outside of Miami/South Florida. More yes but land just too plentiful and the car is not going anywhere for the US. Just to Electric more and self-driving more? Urbanizing will be more multi-residential over high-rises or skyscraper living outside the current holders like NYC, Chi and Miami. Inroads but not stardom as TO Claims and Vancouver even....

As long as Americans do not need to boast US Cities here.... the thread can go back to sleep till TO Claims its next victory vs skyscrapers over Chicago. To Canadians it will be a prideful moment and closer to taking on NYC it sees as a end-game?
 
Old 01-04-2021, 12:51 AM
 
Location: Baltimore
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Boston has three when you include Cambridge . You can kinda see them all at once I’ll post a streetview later.
https://www.google.com/maps/@42.3614...!7i8192!8i4096

speaks for itself. 360 degrees..
I think I counted 17 cranes.

A good look at the stark contrast between Boston and Cambridge skylines aesthetically. Cambridge is Brick and beige while Boston is Glass and Gray

Boston is only behind TO, NYC, Chicago. On the same level as Seattle Philly LA Miami when, it comes to the skyline. Just above Houston Pittsburgh and ATL. If you put SEA or Philly ahead of it i wouldnt be mad.

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