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For what it’s worth, I think Atlanta’s skyline is average for a city it’s size. You need to go out pretty far to see the whole thing from the right angle, but when you do it really isn’t bad.
For what it’s worth, I think Atlanta’s skyline is average for a city it’s size. You need to go out pretty far to see the whole thing from the right angle, but when you do it really isn’t bad.
Atlanta is boostered quite a lot on here. Most do agree with this.
San Jose also has a very underwhelming downtown area, but that's largely because of San Francisco being so close, and San Jose was developed mainly as a large suburb in its heyday. It's one of the most decentralized cities I've ever seen. Another city with a rather unimpressive skyline is San Antonio. I never could understand why San Antonio's downtown seems so smallish compared to Dallas, Houston, and Austin.
Pretty much the same thing as Phoenix (minus the Sky Harbor situation)
Huge suburban campuses/HQs, office towers scattered around the city, sprawl, and wealth pushing out to the suburbs. Downtown SA is just now getting high rise residential buildings, and the tallest office tower since the late 80's got built a few years ago.
Downtown San Antonio is actually relatively dense for a sunbelt city, it's just low/midrise buildings.
I never grew tired of viewing Philly's skyline driving into the city on the Walt Whitman or Ben Franklin bridges from Jersey when I lived there and I never grew tired of viewing Atlanta's driving south along GA 400 or I-85 during my time there.
That's all very fair. To be clear, I think Atlanta has some very nice individual buildings (the BOA tower and 1180 Peachtree are fantastic architecturally).
I personally just put a lot of aesthetic value on how everything looks together, but I also completely understand that it's very subjective.
Pretty much the same thing as Phoenix (minus the Sky Harbor situation)
Huge suburban campuses/HQs, office towers scattered around the city, sprawl, and wealth pushing out to the suburbs. Downtown SA is just now getting high rise residential buildings, and the tallest office tower since the late 80's got built a few years ago.
Downtown San Antonio is actually relatively dense for a sunbelt city, it's just low/midrise buildings.
Exactly. What San Antonio lacks for in height, is made up in density, history, and architecture. It is just a shame how quickly it sprawls out outside of downtown. My biggest gripe with downtown is how little street level interaction there is outside of the Riverwalk or away from the Alamo.
Here is a pic I took showing off the city's density and a bit of its architectural beauty.
They’re both great imo. Why some other posters here have to bash Atlanta to prop up Philly’s skyline here is beyond me.
I read thru the last 10 pages of this thread and do not see Atlanta bashing. I see legitimate critiques and preferences, not bashing.
It appears that many Atlanta posters are offended when others don't see Atlanta as uniformly exceptional... Atlanta's skyline is very nice, but I find Philadelphia's skyline more imposing and interesting (not an outlandish claim). The pyramid setup (tallest in the center), density, interaction of buildings and variety of buildings are what does it for me.
See bold below, that is bashing... And ironically toward Philly...
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Originally Posted by Valley Native
Atlanta has an amazing skyline for a city its size. Philadelphia's downtown skyline is impressive, but a good part of the city is a crime infested dump.
This is a skyline thread, save the trolling for another thread. And last I checked Atlanta is no poster child for safety...
Great pics/streetviews of San Antonio. The scale/density of its downtown indeed looks nicely preserved, especially for a big city in Texas.
Definitely makes me want to explore more in person. I hope the city continues to enhance that unique urban character with Southwest flare.
It's definitely different for a sunbelt city. Parts of downtown have an "northeast" feel that doesn't exist in Dallas, Houston or Austin.
Most of the development happening now and seemingly the future is happening in the north/north west part of downtown, so it'll be cool to have a split between historic and modern.
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