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Are you measuring this by core or metro? By core, I would completely rearrange. Either way, DC should be higher.
And I am going out on a limb (maybe I'm wrong), but I would wager that Center City + U City have more residential high-rises (15ish stories or higher), than all of the areas you mentioned in Atlanta. Remember, Philadelphia has residential high-rises over 100 years old, everything did not start 10 years ago. A full exploration reveals how many mid/high-rise residential buildings there are.
But both do have A LOT of residential mid/high-rise projects in the pipeline. Literally dozens of projects in each downtown area alone.
And expanding to entire metro is where some cities make up ground. Even Philadelphia's largest suburbs suffer from NIMBY-ism if a building is over 4 stories (similar to Boston), until lately.
Thanks for the list. I haven't been to SA in a few years.
Didn't know they had that many residential hirises.
I thought it was the only one not building up but it looks life they have joined the game
I don't think this includes all the high rise residential in San Antonio that are over 10 floors. This is what I could find. Most of the new residential construction, thousands of new units are between 4-9 floors that are being built all over the urban core.
The Only Cities that have large number of people living in high rise condos are Miami NYC and Chicago. With New York being the dominate city for high rise city living. NYCs densely built environment warrants upward living. The southern sunbelt cities have high rise residential living but it is not the culture of those cities nor is it the dominate style people want to live in. I wouldn't want to open my window and see parking lots, 18 lane highways and shopping plazas everywhere. That defeats the purpose of high rise living.
Again OP said 15 stories or higher. Whether or not thats the definition of high rise, thats the parameter for this thread
So then why are you going off of 75m+? That's like 25 floors and higher.
By 15 floors+ DC has more highrises than Atlanta, Seattle and Boston within about 100 sq miles, and almost certainly a higher proportion of residential among its highrises than any of those cities given that none of them are in the CBD (where typically a large majority of highrises are offices and hotels).
So then why are you going off of 75m+? That's like 25 floors and higher.
By 15 floors+ DC has more highrises than Atlanta, Seattle and Boston within about 100 sq miles, and almost certainly a higher proportion of residential among its highrises than any of those cities given that none of them are in the CBD (where typically a large majority of highrises are offices and hotels).
But does it have more people living 15 floors or higher? This topic is asking about high rise living, which I see as different than counting the number of buildings of a certain height.
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