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Old 12-04-2012, 02:29 PM
 
Location: SF Bay Area
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I think pound for pound no city can come close to Honolulu. It has a metro of just under 1 million and according to emporis.com has 407 high rises. Compare that to the following much larger cities:

Honolulu | Buildings | EMPORIS

High Rises as defined by Emporis.com:
Seattle: 245
Philly: 365
Houston: 427
Atlanta: 257
Dallas: 261
SF: 411

 
Old 12-04-2012, 04:11 PM
 
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I think pound for pound no city can come close to Honolulu. It has a metro of just under 1 million and according to emporis.com has 407 high rises. Compare that to the following much larger cities:

Honolulu | Buildings | EMPORIS

High Rises as defined by Emporis.com:
Seattle: 245
Philly: 365
Houston: 427
Atlanta: 257
Dallas: 261
SF: 411
Yeah, resort cities typically have oversized skylines for obvious reasons.
 
Old 12-04-2012, 05:15 PM
 
Location: SF Bay Area
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Yeah, resort cities typically have oversized skylines for obvious reasons.
Most of those high rises are apartments and condos like Miami. It's not like they are mostly hotels like Myrtle Beach or something. Places like Honolulu and Miami have lots of high rises because land is scarce and in Honolulu very expensive.
 
Old 12-04-2012, 06:28 PM
 
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Most of those high rises are apartments and condos like Miami. It's not like they are mostly hotels like Myrtle Beach or something. Places like Honolulu and Miami have lots of high rises because land is scarce and in Honolulu very expensive.
I never said they were hotels. Geography plays a special role for those sorts of cities in one form or another, either lots of hotels or geographic constraints.
 
Old 12-04-2012, 06:51 PM
 
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I never said they were hotels. Geography plays a special role for those sorts of cities in one form or another, either lots of hotels or geographic constraints.
Then what exactly were you implying by HNL being a resort city? Geography has more to do with HNL's high rises than it being a resort city.
 
Old 12-04-2012, 06:52 PM
 
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Des Moines, Iowa packs a lot for its punch

http://i51.photobucket.com/albums/f3...ianolaa-10.jpg

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Old 12-04-2012, 06:55 PM
 
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Des Moines...always the dark horse!

You might as well leave Chicago, it's obvious you're considering it and trying to justify Des Moines as a big city.

Don't worry, everyone there already believes it.
 
Old 12-04-2012, 07:22 PM
 
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Umm.... I would say

-Chicago
-Seattle
-Toronto
-Calgary
-Vancouver
 
Old 12-04-2012, 07:49 PM
 
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Then what exactly were you implying by HNL being a resort city? Geography has more to do with HNL's high rises than it being a resort city.
Many coastal resort cities are also geographically constrained...kinda go hand in hand.
 
Old 12-04-2012, 08:50 PM
 
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Looking at Chicago's skyline you would think it would have almost as many people as NYC.

I think Wilmington, De skyline is pretty nice considering it only has about 75,000 people. Not really any huge buildings but a number of midsized buildings for it's size. I'd imagine it suprises some people not from the area driving on I-95 wondering "what city is this" when driving in between Baltimore and Philly.
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