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Charlotte's rapidly growing skyline serves as a highly visible and dynamic symbol of its growth and prosperity as a city and metropolitan area. That's rightly something for them to be proud of, as is usually true of residents of cities that are drastically growing and changing in real time right before their very eyes.
Charlotte's rapidly growing skyline serves as a highly visible and dynamic symbol of its growth and prosperity as a city and metropolitan area. That's rightly something for them to be proud of, as is usually true of residents of cities that are drastically growing and changing in real time right before their very eyes.
Do you see South End eventually becoming a version of Midtown Atlanta?
Do you see South End eventually becoming a version of Midtown Atlanta?
I think it will probably come to resemble Uptown Dallas more. Midtown Atlanta is truly a secondary downtown for Atlanta with several important institutions and sites of interests in its own right such as Woodruff Arts Center, Piedmont Park, botanical gardens, GA Tech, the Fox Theater, the Federal Reserve Bank, Emory Midtown Hospital, etc. South End lacks these types of anchors as does Uptown Dallas, and both are growing and evolving due in no small part to their light rail lines.
You've strayed from a sensible point of view of admiring skylines (and equating skylines with relative city importance) to saying this city--or any city--should build skyscrapers to match their importance. For New York, tall buildings have been the symbol forever. Not for Los Angeles. LA doesn't need any skyscrapers to be important; it has other features. Besides, skyscrapers have terrible effects in the autocentric USA context-- the more tall buildings you have in a central area, the worse the plague of parking lots, parking garages, suburbanites flooding in and out everyday in single-occupancy vehicles. Just look at poor Hartford. I wouldn't wish more skyscrapers on any place.
Your reasoning is entirely antithetical. Skyscrapers actually help *reduce* sprawl and automobile usage by encouraging density and mass transit-orient development. LA is the poster child for poor urban planning, sprawl, and congestion. It's improving but you might want to refresh yourself on the basics off urban planning.
Impressive:
NYC
Chicago
Pittsburgh
Seattle
Harrisburg - packs some punch for a city <50,000 popn.
New Brunswick
Tulsa
Birmingham - always thought it was a nice one for a city its size
Underwhelming
Norfolk - for the closest thing to an "urban center" of a metro of nearly 2 million, it's not much!
Phoenix Dallas - looked interesting in pics, but in person I felt there wasn't very much to it
Raleigh
....Watch the whole video...You'll see that there's A LOT to it.
For years, Milwaukee's skyline was a huge embarrassment. But it's vastly improved now. There are two problems, however. One is that it's fairly spread out, stretching from the Prospect Avenue Gold Coast south and west almost to Marquette University. The other is that it's hard to do it justice with a single photo. Certain vantage points are best: standing on the lakeshore in Veterans Park, due north of Downtown in Kilbourn Reservoir Park, coming off I-43 onto US 145 just northwest of Fiserv Forum, or coming over the crest of the Hoan Bridge from the south. It's not that impressive when viewed directly from any of the 3 main freeway approaches to downtown (north, south or west), which is unfortunate, because that is how most people first see Milwaukee's skyline.
For years, Milwaukee's skyline was a huge embarrassment. But it's vastly improved now. There are two problems, however. One is that it's fairly spread out, stretching from the Prospect Avenue Gold Coast south and west almost to Marquette University. The other is that it's hard to do it justice with a single photo. Certain vantage points are best: standing on the lakeshore in Veterans Park, due north of Downtown in Kilbourn Reservoir Park, coming off I-43 onto US 145 just northwest of Fiserv Forum, or coming over the crest of the Hoan Bridge from the south. It's not that impressive when viewed directly from any of the 3 main freeway approaches to downtown (north, south or west), which is unfortunate, because that is how most people first see Milwaukee's skyline.
I actually think Milwaukee's skyline has improved significantly over the past decade, and continues to have a few developments in its pipeline that will improve the skyline, as well. Milwaukee has incredible urban bones, and a good amount of density in the lower range level of buildings (5 story to 10, 15 etc).
I am a big fan of Milwaukee's skyline, and love to see it evolve and grow, finally. I am excited to continue to watch it develop.
Phoenix seems like the poster child for this. A huge bustling metro with a skyline that looks like a small city.
This is true. For a city with almost 1.7 million people, and a fast-growing metro area of 5 million, the Phoenix skyline is short and has few buildings.
Granted, there are still 21 buildings over 300 feet high (which is still a lot more than traditional rust belt cities like Kansas City, Indy, St Louis, etc). But, the city of Phoenix should have at least 30 over 300 feet, in my opinion.
I am encouraged that Phoenix has several under construction currently over the 300 foot mark, and they have a new future tallest proposed, also.
Gonna continue to watch the skyline grow. It has to grow soon--the city keeps growing so fast that density has to finally increase.
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....Watch the whole video...You'll see that there's A LOT to it.
