US Cities by total number of "High Rise" buildings 2021 (Emporis)
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Originally Posted by Boston Shudra
Might not be above 100, but can you check to see what Cambridge has?
I checked before I posted the OP. Cambridge, MA is at 82. Some others were very close like Alexandria, VA at 97, and Myrtle Beach, SC with 97 also.
Cambridge however is full of buildings in general. So the 165 low rise buildings going up to roughly 11 floors, mix in with the 82 high rises (12 floors and up) to complete the city's urbanity, and it's done in only 7 sq mi.
By what standard are you referring to mid to high rises? That's probably the discrepancy. Buildings 12 floors and higher Austin, Charlotte, and Nashville have more total in their city proper than SA.
I counted all existing buildings 10 floors plus and wrote everything down for these three cities. San Antonio has 200 the other cities around 140-150. I included 9 floor buildings as well since some were about the same height as a 10 story building as far as feet but had one less floor. I didn't go less than 9 floors.
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Here's the number of highrises per square mile in each city above:
25.29 Miami Beach
22.62 New York
12.31 Miami
11.73 Jersey City
10.42 Arlington
9.89 San Francisco
8.25 Washington DC
7.79 Boston
7.74 Ft. Lauderdale
7.17 Newark
6.00 Chicago
5.36 Minneapolis
4.34 Honolulu
3.98 St. Louis
3.87 Seattle
3.54 Philadelphia
3.07 Pittsburgh
2.69 Baltimore
2.55 Atlanta
2.43 Orlando
2.18 West Palm Beach
2.15 Cincinnati
2.13 Cleveland
1.86 Oakland
1.84 Denver
1.78 Detroit
1.70 Milwaukee
1.49 Tampa
1.42 Los Angeles
1.42 Portland
1.08 Las Vegas
0.92 Houston
0.90 Dallas
0.72 Austin
0.71 New Orleans
0.65 San Diego
0.59 Kansas City
0.51 Charlotte
0.45 Columbus
0.45 Indianapolis
Here's the number of highrises per square mile in each city above:
25.29 Miami Beach
22.62 New York
12.31 Miami
11.73 Jersey City
10.42 Arlington
9.89 San Francisco
8.25 Washington DC
7.79 Boston
7.74 Ft. Lauderdale
7.17 Newark
6.00 Chicago
5.36 Minneapolis
4.34 Honolulu
3.98 St. Louis
3.87 Seattle
3.54 Philadelphia
3.07 Pittsburgh
2.69 Baltimore
2.55 Atlanta
2.43 Orlando
2.18 West Palm Beach
2.15 Cincinnati
2.13 Cleveland
1.86 Oakland
1.84 Denver
1.78 Detroit
1.70 Milwaukee
1.49 Tampa
1.42 Los Angeles
1.42 Portland
1.08 Las Vegas
0.92 Houston
0.90 Dallas
0.72 Austin
0.71 New Orleans
0.65 San Diego
0.59 Kansas City
0.51 Charlotte
0.45 Columbus
0.45 Indianapolis
0.38 Nashville
0.34 San Antonio
0.23 Phoenix
New Orleans moves up to 1.20 if you remove the 35 sq mi in the Bayou Sauvage National Wildlife Refuge.
I'd call them sexy buildings too — they rise above the glass box or the concrete-frame pancake stack. But to your point, I'd also call them high-rises, save for the eight-story building on the right in rendering 2 that brings the difference between "high rise" and "not high rise" home.
DC has often been compared to Paris because of its low building height limit, but these buildings — and many others in the national capital — demonstrate that DC's height limit is still more generous than Paris', where you simply do not see any buildings with more than five or six floors (about the point where you'd need to put in an elevator).
But what these renderings also show is that you can get a canyon effect with not-so-tall buildings like these. You usually don't feel like you are in a canyon walking on most streets in the District because many of the taller buildings are on the avenues, which are broad. But put them on a narrower street, as here, and voila! Apartment canyons.
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I'd call them sexy buildings too — they rise above the glass box or the concrete-frame pancake stack. But to your point, I'd also call them high-rises, save for the eight-story building on the right in rendering 2 that brings the difference between "high rise" and "not high rise" home.
DC has often been compared to Paris because of its low building height limit, but these buildings — and many others in the national capital — demonstrate that DC's height limit is still more generous than Paris', where you simply do not see any buildings with more than five or six floors (about the point where you'd need to put in an elevator).
But what these renderings also show is that you can get a canyon effect with not-so-tall buildings like these. You usually don't feel like you are in a canyon walking on most streets in the District because many of the taller buildings are on the avenues, which are broad. But put them on a narrower street, as here, and voila! Apartment canyons.
Agreed with all of this here. There are parts of DC where the streets are too wide to give off an urban canyon feel like 16th street, or Constitution and Independence Avenues etc. But with the right building placement on the right street you certainly can create a "canyon" effect in 14/15 stories albeit a shorter one.
For what it's worth, I'd also call the buildings in the renderings "tall" buildings. I know that's a head scratcher for some who believe only a skyscraper can be considered tall. No. Skyscrapers are "taller" buildings and/ or supertall. But anything 12-15 stories is certainly not "short" and not even mid rise.They are high rise, just at the beginning of that measurement.
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