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Old 03-13-2012, 04:01 PM
 
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The Ultrapolis reports that Houston is now down to 11th world's tallest city, down from 10th last year, and 3rd back in the 1980's.

The 2012 report is at:

CAHTT Methodology

The rankings of the world's tallest cities at:

Ultrapolis World's Twenty-Five Tallest Cities

Also, some diagrams (unfortunately, Houston's diagram was removed when it fell out of the top ten):

World's Ten Tallest Cities
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Old 03-13-2012, 04:06 PM
 
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YOU MEAN 12? Looks like both Abu Dhabi and Busan (where ever that is) passed us. its odd. in 2000 we were 5th. then Asia just started building up
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Old 03-13-2012, 04:14 PM
 
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Default Oops, it is 12th not 11th

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YOU MEAN 12? Looks like both Abu Dhabi and Busan (where ever that is) passed us. its odd. in 2000 we were 5th. then Asia just started building up
Yep, I read it wrong, it is 12th. Dang.
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Old 03-13-2012, 04:20 PM
 
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YOU MEAN 12? Looks like both Abu Dhabi and Busan (where ever that is) passed us. its odd. in 2000 we were 5th. then Asia just started building up
To think that the rest of the world believes Americans are hopeless with geography....

Busan is the 2nd largest city in South Korea. Great coastal city down on the southeastern tip of the peninsula. Important port city. Building a couple of massive towers.
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Old 03-13-2012, 04:31 PM
 
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To think that the rest of the world believes Americans are hopeless with geography....

Busan is the 2nd largest city in South Korea. Great coastal city down on the southeastern tip of the peninsula. Important port city. Building a couple of massive towers.
stop acting like you knew where that was. You know you googled it just now.

At least I guessed it was in Asia somewhere
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Old 03-13-2012, 04:57 PM
 
Location: Upper East Side of Texas
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Los Angeles, Atlanta, & Miami can suck it.

I'm tired of always hearing them say their skylines are taller & bigger than Houston's.

Even if they saw this list as proof they would still deny it that's how superficial they are.
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Old 03-13-2012, 05:01 PM
 
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Los Angeles, Atlanta, & Miami can suck it.

I'm tired of always hearing them say their skylines are taller & bigger than Houston's.

Even if they saw this list as proof they would still deny it that's how superficial they are.
add SF and Honolulu to that list
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Old 03-13-2012, 05:09 PM
 
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Here the numbers look a bit different: World's tallest buildings - Top 200 | Statistics | EMPORIS

Oh, never mind my link - its the average height of 10 tallest buildings in the city....
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Old 03-13-2012, 05:12 PM
 
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Here the numbers look a bit different: World's tallest buildings - Top 200 | Statistics | EMPORIS
That is because Emporis is not updated frequently and is lacking in a great number of buildings.
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Old 03-13-2012, 05:13 PM
 
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add SF and Honolulu to that list
Yeah, but Atlanta, Los Angeles, & Miami (to a lesser extent) take the cake.

They think their skylines are so much bigger & better than Houston's & will grasp at straws to get their point across...on this forum anyways.
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