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Originally Posted by Joakim3
Off the top of my head NYC, Atlanta, Houston, Dallas, LA, Miami are the only current cities with multiple skylines.
DC & Boston are just as polycentric but lack high-rises/skyscrapers in certain cores of the above cities.
Philly is currently building is second skyline at Schuylkill Yards, while Baltimore is just breaking ground on Port Covington which will contain multiple +100m buildings
I think the elephant in the room is what qualifies as a separate downtown?
For DC obviously the city core doesn't come into the conversation in terms of skyscrapers, but there are multiple "tall skylines" away from downtown, and you can see some from the city core.
The DC area has added high rises in more separate nodes of it's metro than any US metro area not named NYC or Miami the past decade. https://postimg.cc/NLLZPbzQ
DC suburban skylines with multiple buildings above 300' (key word multiple):
Rosslyn (multiple 350+)
Tysons (multiple above 400')
Reston (multiple above 400')
Crystal City
Pentagon City
Alexandria
DT Bethesda
DT Silver Spring (one stands, two under construction)
There is definitely a difference between "high rise district", and an actual downtown. I would say it's 2 downtowns for city proper DC with DT and Navy Yard/Capital Riverfront, but those are within the height limits. For outside the city, Rosslyn is legit a secondary downtown, if we're calling DT Brooklyn a downtown. After that it's CC/Pentagon city that run somewhere in between actual downtown, and/or just an urbanized TOD zone. I'll concede they need some more cohesion to actually be "downtowns", but are strongly walkable and strong amenity nodes. Tysons is a huge edge city with the tallest buildings, but I would not call it a "downtown".
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This list is not exhaustive. I think the St. Regis and a few Beaman development towers were left out of this list. Hopefully Mayor O' Connell's transit plan will be approved to provide much needed pedestrian/cyclist connectivity to these neighborhoods. BRT is also in the works.
Also in the St. Louis example. Part of the reason Clayton is outside city limits is due to a city/county divorce in the 1870's, otherwise Clayton would certinly be in the city now. Clayton does function as a 2nd CBD and not a edge city pattern due to some unique issues in the region.
Also are some of these pictures something else if the high-rises are not offices but residental structures? In St. Louis the two high-rise areas between Downtown St. Louis and Clayton (Midtown and CWE) are mainly residental buildings.
I would argue these days that Clayton has a more vibrant downtown than what I consider the center of St. Louis to be, namely 4th St to Tucker Blvd, and Clark St to Washington St.
This list is not exhaustive. I think the St. Regis and a few Beaman development towers were left out of this list. Hopefully Mayor O' Connell's transit plan will be approved to provide much needed pedestrian/cyclist connectivity to these neighborhoods. BRT is also in the works.
High-rise "node" sure, but a separate Downtown/CBD? Nah. Outside of mega cities like NYC or LA, separate downtowns in lesser cities are almost exclusively "edge cities" that are often their own municipalities with their own defined business/entertainment cores largely separated from the central core of their principle city.
High-rise "node" sure, but a separate Downtown/CBD? Nah. Outside of mega cities like NYC or LA, separate downtowns in lesser cities are almost exclusively "edge cities" that are often their own municipalities with their own defined business/entertainment cores largely separated from the central core of their principle city.
This list is not exhaustive. I think the St. Regis and a few Beaman development towers were left out of this list. Hopefully Mayor O' Connell's transit plan will be approved to provide much needed pedestrian/cyclist connectivity to these neighborhoods. BRT is also in the works.
Well that's quite the reach. If that's the case, pretty much every city has "multiple downtowns."
Nashville's appear to be extensions of Downtown. And isn't the East Bank a construction/upcoming thing, as I'm seeing basically nothing on Google Maps?
Seattle's #3 (or #2 ahead of Bellevue in some ways) would be the University District. It's pretty dense with residential including five new towers just completed (shown) and has lately been adding office buildings (three in the 9-12-story range topped out but barely underway in the image). https://www.google.com/maps/@47.6583...!1e3?entry=ttu
For another suburb, Kirkland, WA kinda has three (Central + Lake, Juanita, Totem Lake)
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