Why Do Utah Skylines Suck So Much? (Salt Lake City, Provo: luxury, tornado)

[CaptainCrape]

Why Do Utah Skylines Suck? We have a strong economy, several large cities (At least for the Intermoutain West), And lots of companies, but The only good skyline is Salt Lake City (which actually has a really great skyline for its size and is growing rapidly with a new skyscraper going up right now), Ogden (somewhat), and some cities in in south and central Salt Lake Valley that have lots of fairly tall buildings.

Salt Lake City Skyline From The East
But what else is there? Provo? Yes it's growing but it already has like 116,000 people, and its the center of a major metropolitain area with over 550,000 people, so there is no excuse there. And St. George... Its sucks, there are only a few buildings with over 3 or 4 floors, that is totally unacceptable for a city with a population of 77,000 (and one of fastest growing cities/metros in the nation), and a metropolitan area population of 152,000, it is terrible. But I guess St. George has always been more of a suburb city. Anyways, I hope that Utah will soon have better skylines and larger cities, but for now, our skylines suck.

[SouthernBelleInUtah]

Larger cities? With our water problems? And earthquake potential?

[UTES]

SLC is more de-centralized than many like-sized metropolises. After living in several large West Coast cities - I can attest that's a good thing.

Bill

[irman]

Is there some kind of a standard or *gauge* that states what a *City Skyline* should look like ??

[UTES]

I think we have a beautiful skyline.



Bill

[Chango]

Give it a few more decades. Until now, we've had the luxury of space to build outwards but now that the Wasatch Front is almost full the only way to go is up and population is set to double by 2040-2050.

You might notice that's the same issue which led to the cities with the most dramatic skylines worldwide.

[CaptainCrape]

Originally Posted by UTES

I think we have a beautiful skyline.



Bill

We do have a beautiful skyline in SLC. I stated that in the original post. Just it seems like every other skyline in Utah sucks. Oh and by the way that picture is like 6 or 7 years old. Here is an updated skyline from that same side.

[Katzpur]

Originally Posted by UTES

I think we have a beautiful skyline.



Bill

Nice picture! I love that view of Salt Lake.

[CaptainCrape]

Originally Posted by SouthernBelleInUtah

Larger cities? With our water problems? And earthquake potential?

Well, not really. We could handle bigger cities. We just need a more efficient water system. Just the governor doesn't care to do it. Look at states like Arizona and California. Arizona has almost 7 million people and California has almost 39 million people (the most of any US state). And those states are some of the driest in the nation. Despite this, They have efficient water systems that keep these states alive. In fact, California has one of the most efficient water systems in the world. And yes, they still have droughts, but the fact that they survive from them, means they must have a very efficient water system. Utah can and should do the same. Because if we are having water problems and we only have 3 million people than we are failing with are water system. And for the earthquakes. I have never heard of a earthquake damaging anything at all in Utah. In fact, a tornado in Salt Lake City in 1999 caused more damage than earthquakes ever have. Now look at San Francisco. It is a huge city, and it gets damaging earthquakes all the time. So yes, we could have bigger cities.

[UTES]

Originally Posted by CaptainCrape

Oh and by the way that picture is like 6 or 7 years old. Here is an updated skyline from that same side.

Yes - a nice shot. Thanks.

Bill