Wilkes-Barre skyline photo tour (Philadelphia, Allentown: yard, Wal-mart, businesses)

[Pa Dutch]

I appreciate your love of your city, but, I have to agree with Yuk, that isn't really a skyline. Skyline is usually used in conjunction with skyscrapers. Twenty stories isn't much of a skyline.

[CoalCityTrash]

Originally Posted by Pa Dutch

I appreciate your love of your city, but, I have to agree with Yuk, that isn't really a skyline. Skyline is usually used in conjunction with skyscrapers. Twenty stories isn't much of a skyline.

Short skyscrapers are still skyscrapers. Anything 10 stories or taller is a skyscraper by the literal definition of the word. You forget that these buildings are all between 80 & 120 years old. A lot has changed since then.
To elaborate, just because The Empire State Building is over 1,000 feet, doesn't mean that The Flatiron isn't tall. Modern skyscrapers are tallER, but old ones are still tall.

[DarkWolf]

Originally Posted by CoalCityTrash

Short skyscrapers are still skyscrapers. Anything 10 stories or taller is a skyscraper by the literal definition of the word. You forget that these buildings are all between 80 & 120 years old. A lot has changed since then.
To elaborate, just because The Empire State Building is over 1,000 feet, doesn't mean that The Flatiron isn't tall. Modern skyscrapers are tallER, but old ones are still tall.

Actually 10 stories is a low rise...

High Rise - between 100-199m/300-649ft tall
Skyscraper - between 200-299m/650-999ft tall
Supertall - at least 300m/1,000 ft tall
Megatall - 2.000Ft +

[DarkWolf]

Most people rate Wilkes Barre as a 6 out 10 for Skylines , its ok , but needs more buildings....

Wilkes-Barre - USA - SkyscraperCity

Scranton gets a 7 out of 10....
Scranton - USA - SkyscraperCity

[CoalCityTrash]

Originally Posted by Nexis4Jersey

Most people rate Wilkes Barre as a 6 out 10 for Skylines , its ok , but needs more buildings....

Wilkes-Barre - USA - SkyscraperCity

Scranton gets a 7 out of 10....
Scranton - USA - SkyscraperCity

That makes no sense! Who rated W-B lower than Scranton, when Scranton only has about 3 buildings taller than 8 stories & a considerably smaller downtown?! All you have to do is put the glamour shots side by side to see that W-B's skyline is 3,000,000,000,000 times more impressive!

[W-B proud]

Originally Posted by CoalCityTrash

That makes no ****ing sense! Who rated W-B lower than Scranton, when Scranton only has about 3 buildings taller than 8 stories & a considerably smaller downtown?! All you have to do is put the glamour shots side by side to see that W-B's skyline is 3,000,000,000,000 times more impressive!

I'm not too sure about Scranton's downtown being smaller, but I will definatley agree that for our area, W-B's "skyline" is about as good as it gets for NEPA. Scranton looks flat, and all the buildings look the same height and even color. It doesn't project a skyline really at all. W-b on the other hand has a defined skyline, small, but with varied heights, colors etc. If you pretend that Scranton's skyline looks better than W-B's from a distance than you are clearly lying or are blind. I'm not saying that W-B has the better downtown , just that if you were to put two pictures, one of downtown W-B, and one of downtown Scranton side by side and had a survey of people from outside the area,and asked them which one looked more like a city skyscape, I believe W-B would win in a landslide.

[CoalCityTrash]

Originally Posted by W-B proud

I'm not too sure about Scranton's downtown being smaller, but I will definatley agree that for our area, W-B's "skyline" is about as good as it gets for NEPA. Scranton looks flat, and all the buildings look the same height and even color. It doesn't project a skyline really at all. W-b on the other hand has a defined skyline, small, but with varied heights, colors etc. If you pretend that Scranton's skyline looks better than W-B's from a distance than you are clearly lying or are blind. I'm not saying that W-B has the better downtown , just that if you were to put two pictures, one of downtown W-B, and one of downtown Scranton side by side and had a survey of people from outside the area,and asked them which one looked more like a city skyscape, I believe W-B would win in a landslide.

Scranton city is bigger, but W-B downtown is definitely the bigger of the two the old 16 block boundary of W-B downtown has been stretched from 16 blocks to about 24 blocks currently considering tall buildings & businesses. Scanton downtown is only about 12 blocks & it's so dead, you can't even tell where it starts or ends.

[Mr Yuk]

Originally Posted by CoalCityTrash

Scranton city is bigger, but W-B downtown is definitely the bigger of the two the old 16 block boundary of W-B downtown has been stretched from 16 blocks to about 24 blocks currently considering tall buildings & businesses. Scanton downtown is only about 12 blocks & it's so dead, you can't even tell where it starts or ends.

I don't think either downtown is any more "dead" than the other. They're fairly even. W-B does have the more impressive looking skyline, but that's because its tall buildings are concentrated in one place around public square. Scranton's taller buildings are a few blocks apart from each other. Scranton's downtown area probably is larger than Wilkes-Barre's....more spread out. That said, I probably prefer downtown W-B for its walkability, the River Common and accessbility to Kirby Park giving it the edge.

[CoalCityTrash]

Originally Posted by Mr Yuk

I don't think either downtown is any more "dead" than the other. They're fairly even. W-B does have the more impressive looking skyline, but that's because its tall buildings are concentrated in one place around public square. Scranton's taller buildings are a few blocks apart from each other. Scranton's downtown area probably is larger than Wilkes-Barre's....more spread out. That said, I probably prefer downtown W-B for its walkability, the River Common and accessbility to Kirby Park giving it the edge.

The reason I call Scranton more dead is that its business & attractions are directed more away from Courthouse Square, whereas, in W-B, all attractions, events, office space is mainly concentrated to Public Square, an 8 block radius (North & South) & a 4 block radius (East & West). Scranton is sprawled out, while W-B tries to keep all of its "cityness" for lack of a better word concentrated in one place, away from the residential neighborhoods.

[CoalCityTrash]

Also, Scranton isn't nearly as tall as W-B. We have 3 of the 5 tallest buildings in PA outside Philly & Pitt. Scranton only has one on that list (the other is in Allentown) & I believe Bank Tower in Scranton is the only building there taller than 50 meters.