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Lincoln, NE is pretty impressive for its metro of 340k. It’s about to get its third mid/high rise residential (15+ stories) in about as many years. With Memorial Stadium, Pinnacle Bank Arena, tall capitol, and a decent cluster of mid-rise buildings, it has an impressive skyline for its size.
Pensacola, FL, meanwhile, is the opposite. It’s a metro of about 500k and maybe one or two buildings downtown above 10 stories. The city is very military and tourism reliant, so there haven’t been many big-time developers looking to build upward. Plus there may be height limits because, like a smaller, southern San Diego, it’s across the bay from a military base. That said, in recent years the downtown area has densified and is quite nice at street level—you just would never guess it’s a half a million metro from a distance.
Dallas is unimpressive given the size of the metro area.
It looks about right considering it’s a multipolar metro area. It’s a not a dense city (with limited land) that require a lot of skyscrapers or a city with a spectacular view that have a lot of condo/residential towers. Seattle, Miami, etc are good examples. In the 80s building boom, Dallas’ skyline was overbuilt and it was all office space. Same goes for Houston as well. At the time, The Metroplex had a population of 2,930,530 people.
It looks about right considering it’s a multipolar metro area. It’s a not a dense city (with limited land) that require a lot of skyscrapers or a city with a spectacular view that have a lot of condo/residential towers. Seattle, Miami, etc are good examples. In the 80s building boom, Dallas’ skyline was overbuilt and it was all office space. Same goes for Houston as well. At the time, The Metroplex had a population of 2,930,530 people.
Yeah. People forget that Dallas is the center of a 5.3 million person metropolitan division, not 7.7 million. Fort Worth is its own separate city with its own suburbs and its own skyline. Dallas’ skyline looks about right for its true size. Central Dallas isn’t the only center of the metroplex.
Lincoln, NE is pretty impressive for its metro of 340k. It’s about to get its third mid/high rise residential (15+ stories) in about as many years. With Memorial Stadium, Pinnacle Bank Arena, tall capitol, and a decent cluster of mid-rise buildings, it has an impressive skyline for its size.
Pensacola, FL, meanwhile, is the opposite. It’s a metro of about 500k and maybe one or two buildings downtown above 10 stories. The city is very military and tourism reliant, so there haven’t been many big-time developers looking to build upward. Plus there may be height limits because, like a smaller, southern San Diego, it’s across the bay from a military base. That said, in recent years the downtown area has densified and is quite nice at street level—you just would never guess it’s a half a million metro from a distance.
I didn't know that Pensacola's metro is that large. That's actually larger than Savannah's, which is a bit more on the "impressive" side.
Yeah. People forget that Dallas is the center of a 5.3 million person metropolitan division, not 7.7 million. Fort Worth is its own separate city with its own suburbs and its own skyline. Dallas’ skyline looks about right for its true size. Central Dallas isn’t the only center of the metroplex.
Exactly. The full metro population doesn’t radiate from Downtown Dallas like Houston or other single city metro areas.
Isn't it kind of crazy how the FAA has so much influence over a City's development? Most US cities don't build taller than 1,000+ feet anyways but developers always have to get approval from them.
How many planes have actually crashed into Skyscrapers?
It all comes down to AGL (Above Ground Level). On average planes are below 1000' during the last ~3 miles of flight before landing
It's a preventative measure to insure there are no potential obstructions during take off/landing where the plane needs all the wiggle room to maneuver in the event of an emergency.
Yeah. People forget that Dallas is the center of a 5.3 million person metropolitan division, not 7.7 million. Fort Worth is its own separate city with its own suburbs and its own skyline. Dallas’ skyline looks about right for its true size. Central Dallas isn’t the only center of the metroplex.
It's tough to figure out because it's hard to say something is a FW suburb and not influenced by Dallas since they are ultimately in the same metro. Arlington is a great example of a place that has fallen under the FW metro division, but it's clearly a very Dallas suburb as well as all of the other Mid-Cities. Saying Dallas is the central city of just 5.3 million is very inaccurate. I do however agree that Dallas isn't the center of the Metroplex.
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But it’s a very low density, spread out metro, so it doesn’t feel that big.
