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Yea but it's what I'm talking about because a skyline is what is what you see using the sky as a backdrop and personally I'd rather see beautiful mountains that 10000 skyscrapers taking up space
Definitely the cities of the New South. I love the modern glass towers of Atlanta, Houston, Dallas, Charlotte, Miami, and Tampa. Those cities feel so alive and brand-new. In contrast, northeastern and upper midwest cities have miles and miles of decayed buildings, eyesores, and crumbling housing projects. People like the NYC skyline but that's only the southern half of Manhattan. let's not forget that New York also includes the tenement blocks of Brooklyn, the Bronx, Harlem, Queens, etc etc. Baltimore has a nice Inner Harbor area with modern skyscrapers but most of the city is typical drab Rust Belt.
Actually yes a city can be ghetto and slummy but still have a good skyline. I actually really like the Renaissance Center in Detroit, great example of modern, futuristic architecture.
I like skylines that are planned. I love Chicago's skyline because it's planned to the teeth and it looks spectacular from any angle you come in on it. The Sears Tower and the Hancock buidings are the bookends. It's going to be interesting to see how the Chicago Spire is going to fit in. I personally think it looks like a unicorn horn ... we'll see how it makes the whole skyline look if and when it gets done.
NYC doesn't really have a skyline to me ... it's a spectacular place and I love it there, but it's so haphazard.
I also love Seattle and San Francisco's skylines and for some reason, I think that St. Louis, with the Gateway Arch looks really cool too.
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