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Pittsburgh does have 15. Detroit does have a seriously impressive 32 above that height, so I guess consider me humbled there. St. Louis has 13 so a little over. Baltimore appeared to tie it with 12? Per my count, at least.
I still wouldn't fully throw away my theory of potentially being Top 10 in the US in pre-war though, at least at though lower end (with Detroit likely trailing maybe Chicago-and maybe not even Chicago on that), and New York. New Orleans was far and away the largest city in the south at the time and had 10. Louisville was 2nd by city limits population (in the south) and comes up with 5. Atlanta only with 3, one of which was the capitol. Looking out west, even Los Angeles which was almost certainly the biggest at that point, only had 8 by then. So, pending a check of some of the other leading cities, I'd say that probably holds true, at least stateside, and outside of the US and Canada (and maybe UK and a couple commonwealths-pre war highrise construction was highly unusual).
Edit: I guess I should add/you asked: I used Wikipedia at first, but then I used Emporis. I will say that Cleveland has 15 total buildings listed that were above 200 feet, but only 12 officially classfied as high rise buildings, which was the number I gave initially (3 were churches). I didn't necessarily take those out when counting for some of the other cities, either.
What I like about Baltimore is how British it looks. The building style of those row homes would fit in a British industrial city just like that and nobody would notice. The nicer streets from your links look rather affluent and safe too. I just wonder what it is like living there, can you sleep peacefully with the window open at night without waking up from the fireworks from the surrounding less thriving areas?
Google Earth is the best way to get a real feel for the urban fabric of a city. Love this shot of a typical South St. Louis neighborhood. This is just ordinary in this city: https://earth.google.com/web/@38.598...2.14416924t,0r
Pittsburgh does have 15. Detroit does have a seriously impressive 32 above that height, so I guess consider me humbled there. St. Louis has 13 so a little over. Baltimore appeared to tie it with 12? Per my count, at least.
I still wouldn't fully throw away my theory of potentially being Top 10 in the US in pre-war though, at least at though lower end (with Detroit likely trailing maybe Chicago-and maybe not even Chicago on that), and New York. New Orleans was far and away the largest city in the south at the time and had 10. Louisville was 2nd by city limits population (in the south) and comes up with 5. Atlanta only with 3, one of which was the capitol. Looking out west, even Los Angeles which was almost certainly the biggest at that point, only had 8 by then. So, pending a check of some of the other leading cities, I'd say that probably holds true, at least stateside, and outside of the US and Canada (and maybe UK and a couple commonwealths-pre war highrise construction was highly unusual).
Edit: I guess I should add/you asked: I used Wikipedia at first, but then I used Emporis. I will say that Cleveland has 15 total buildings listed that were above 200 feet, but only 12 officially classfied as high rise buildings, which was the number I gave initially (3 were churches). I didn't necessarily take those out when counting for some of the other cities, either.
Pittsburgh has more than 15 prewar building over 200 feet. I will compile a list with street views.
What I like about Baltimore is how British it looks. The building style of those row homes would fit in a British industrial city just like that and nobody would notice. The nicer streets from your links look rather affluent and safe too. I just wonder what it is like living there, can you sleep peacefully with the window open at night without waking up from the fireworks from the surrounding less thriving areas?
The last street view is a quiet neighborhood. You can sleep peacefully with the windows open. The other neighborhoods...not likely unless you like hearing cars and people all night.
Cleveland and Detroit has some nice architecture downtown. But, they don't really have the old intact neighborhoods.
Huh? ... Here we go again with the blind lumping Detroit and Cleveland together because it sounds nice...
This statement is not true re either city, but regarding Cleveland, I guess you aren't aware of Ohio City, Little Italy, Shaker Square, University Circle, Tremont, Detroit-Shoreway, Lorain Station, Brooklyn Centre, Old Brooklyn, Edgewater, etc, etc...
What I like about Baltimore is how British it looks. The building style of those row homes would fit in a British industrial city just like that and nobody would notice. The nicer streets from your links look rather affluent and safe too. I just wonder what it is like living there, can you sleep peacefully with the window open at night without waking up from the fireworks from the surrounding less thriving areas?
There are a lot neighborhoods (not just streets) in the city where you can sleep peacefully with the window open at night that look like that without having to hear "fireworks".
People swear by the gods that living in Baltimore is like living in Aleppo, Syria. Does it have a lot of rough parts? Absolutely, but those areas are no rougher than the counterparts of the other cities in this thread.
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