Resonance: Best Cities in the United States Ranking, 2022 (skyline, America)
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In the report, the skyline photos of Raleigh, Lexington, KY, and Augusta, GA are of other cities. The photo used for Lexington is an aerial of the SC Capitol in Columbia but I don't recognize the skyline photos used for Raleigh and Augusta.
In the report, the skyline photos of Raleigh, Lexington, KY, and Augusta, GA are of other cities. The photo used for Lexington is an aerial of the SC Capitol in Columbia but I don't recognize the skyline photos used for Raleigh and Augusta.
the skyline photo of Raleigh doesn't even look like a skyline in America. Looks like it's somewhere in ASIA. lmao and they've used this same photo for Raleigh several years now. Raleigh would have the most underrated skyline in America if that picture was accurate LMAO
If you read the descriptions, the methodology seems to be heavily weighted on construction and development.
Here is Las Vegas:
What they’ll find are new casinos and restaurants (of course) and none more buzzed-about and massive than the $4.3-billion Resorts World Las Vegas. Opened in late June 2021, it is ginormous, comprising three hotels, the 27,000-square-foot Awana Spa, an old-school “hawker-style” food court and a new, 5,000-capacity theater, which has the most massive stage in the city surrounded by 200 giant speakers outfitted with tech called “L-ISA Hyperreal Sound.” Anyway, it’s hosting Carrie Underwood’s residency. The fact that places like the Wynn were extensively renoed at a cost of $200 million during the pandemic is almost lost in the gilded fog of Vegas construction.
In addition to the fervor of buildout during the past two years, there is still more than $15 billion in new investment in the pipeline over the next several years, including the 2023 completion of the much-anticipated Fontainebleau and the $2-billion MSG Sphere under construction behind the Venetian. It has 17,500 seats, 580,000 square feet of programmable lighting, the largest and highest-resolution LED screen on earth, advanced acoustics and an infrasound haptic system enabling guests to “feel sound.”
Vegas is still too high. Nashville is under a construction boom and not even mentioned. Bogus report.
the skyline photo of Raleigh doesn't even look like a skyline in America. Looks like it's somewhere in ASIA. lmao and they've used this same photo for Raleigh several years now. Raleigh would have the most underrated skyline in America if that picture was accurate LMAO
Yeah it definitely didn't look American. I was trying to figure out whose skyline it was for about 2 or 3 minutes before I gave up lol.
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Vegas is still too high. Nashville is under a construction boom and not even mentioned. Bogus report.
Seems to me like Resonance's methodology, as explained up front in the full report, relies a lot on what I would call experiential or reputational or sensory rankings — the soft stuff that you can't quite put a number on. TripAdvisor user ratings figure prominently in three of the six categories and are a contributing factor in a fourth, for instance.
One of the six — "Promotion" (all six have words that begin with P) — is IMO totally reputational, as it's based on online check-ins, Instagram tags, and Google searches. Granted, lots of people are online, but I think that relying only on online data here leaves out a large chunk of the people who may have heard of, been to or formed an opinion of a city.
I also think the "People" category has too few criteria. It includes only foreign-born population and educational attainment (percentage of residents with a bachelor's or higher degree). I'd also look at racial/ethnic diversity and internal domestic migration (percentage of the population born outside the state where the city is located; I think you can get Census ACS data on that) as contributing factors there.
Since this consultancy burst on the scene, it's always come off to me as a little too TED-y for my tastes in this department. (Not that I have anything against TED talks per se, but their audience tends to come heavily from a narrow stratum of the society, one that's quite pleased with its own sophistication, whether or not it really is sophisticated.)
the skyline photo of Raleigh doesn't even look like a skyline in America. Looks like it's somewhere in ASIA. lmao and they've used this same photo for Raleigh several years now. Raleigh would have the most underrated skyline in America if that picture was accurate LMAO
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Yeah it definitely didn't look American. I was trying to figure out whose skyline it was for about 2 or 3 minutes before I gave up lol.
It's not the Lujiazui skyline that most people are more familiar with, which is why it's hard to find...the buildings are across the river from that.
For some reason when I do an Image Search on Google it keep showing up as "Raleigh Skyline", though...
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