Please register to participate in our discussions with 2 million other members - it's free and quick! Some forums can only be seen by registered members. After you create your account, you'll be able to customize options and access all our 15,000 new posts/day with fewer ads.
I'm aware of that. You pick your poison with Emporis. I'm just counting on the fact that all the cities posted have planned/hypothetical pie-in-the-sky projects and that those mostly cancel each other out.
If I go by any other category, such as 'constructed buildings', then I get a multitude of 10-floor buildings that do nothing for the skyline, and if I went with 'towers' I would get all the radio masts in the city, which again do nothing.
Also, Emporis doesn't do a great job keeping track of all the towers in a city. I could tell a few were missing from Raleigh when I checked, and there's no way I can submit the missing information. It also doesn't geographically group the towers. It is a very inaccurate tool to make a point with.
Your numbers are wildly incorrect, they include unbuilt, cancelled, and paper projects, unless you think there is really a building in Chicago twice the height of Burj Dubai.
Standing atop the Burj is scary enough with little wind. Imagine Chicago
Not sure if its been said but Little Rock has a decent skyline for its population. It's a very small city (metro 600k) but its skyline gives it somewhat of a feel of urbanity if you are in the downtown area. It can also be deceiving for somebody visiting the first time. Downtown is decent but there really isn't much else to the city.
I would say, from looking at photos, the follow (this includes the metro area):
1. Chicago: Although a large city with about 6 million, it's skyline is the third biggest in the world, beating many megacities like Sao Paulo and Tokyo.
2. Seattle: With a metro about 3 million, it's skyline looks to be one of the biggest in the US. The city itself also punches above it's weight in other areas.
3. San Diego: Has quite a large skyline for a city of 2 million.
That's all I can really think of. What others, do you think?
ed: Oh I should have put this in the Gen forum, never mind...
Seattle and Pittsburg both come to mind. Both have about 300,000 in the city proper, yet their skylines compare to larger cities like San Fran and DTLA.
Standing atop the Burj is scary enough with little wind. Imagine Chicago
The irony is Skidmore Owings and Merril designed and built the Burj, so to a degree Chicago built a building of that height. A building that tall in Chicago would look silly. Chicago has tall buildings, but they have a certain brawny feel to them. The Burj it too space penis-ish and looks something that belongs in an Asian city.
The irony is Skidmore Owings and Merril designed and built the Burj, so to a degree Chicago built a building of that height. A building that tall in Chicago would look silly. Chicago has tall buildings, but they have a certain brawny feel to them. The Burj it too space penis-ish and looks something that belongs in an Asian city.
I suppose. It is a magnificent building, but would definitely be out of place in the U.S. They build a lot for prestige there and not for function. Dubai is a strange place.
I guess it has an absolutely monstrous skyline compared to its population.
Please register to post and access all features of our very popular forum. It is free and quick. Over $68,000 in prizes has already been given out to active posters on our forum. Additional giveaways are planned.
Detailed information about all U.S. cities, counties, and zip codes on our site: City-data.com.
Please register to participate in our discussions with 2 million other members - it's free and quick! Some forums can only be seen by registered members. After you create your account, you'll be able to customize options and access all our 15,000 new posts/day with fewer ads.
