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Posted on 1/6/22 at 7:22 am to Palmetto98
DC cannot have any structures taller than the Washington monument.
Posted on 1/6/22 at 7:35 am to dewster
Baton Rouge's loses points for half of the skyline being a refinery.
Posted on 1/6/22 at 7:53 am to Palmetto98
Birmingham's skyline is good for what it is. However, our dumbass city decided to put an airport with an approach pattern basically right over the downtown skyline. Therefore, there is a height regulation on buildings downtown.
I'm also fairly biased on the heaviest corner on earth in downtown Birmingham. It would have been badass to see back in the day, those are/were some beautiful buildings.
I'm also fairly biased on the heaviest corner on earth in downtown Birmingham. It would have been badass to see back in the day, those are/were some beautiful buildings.
Posted on 1/6/22 at 7:57 am to Palmetto98
Jackson is the one in the middle.
Posted on 1/6/22 at 7:58 am to TRUERockyTop
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The Memphis skyline sucks though for a city with a metro of > 1M
There is at least one or two towers in there that are abandoned.
Posted on 1/6/22 at 8:01 am to Oklahomey
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Oklahoma City’s landscape has come a long way since the canal started things off in 1999.
I spent a lot of time in OKC in 2015 and 2016 - around the time that Aubrey McClendon died. Seems like everyone is either tied to Chesapeake or is married to someone who works there. It's a great town, and the people are very nice
But holy hell the weather in the springtime is terrible. I returned at least two rental cars over the course of one month with hail damage, including a brand new Dodge Durango.
As far as Oklahoma towns go....I like Tulsa and OKC. Tulsa reminds me of Baton Rouge or Houston in a lot of ways with all of the downstream oil and gas. OKC feels like a tiny version of Dallas.
This post was edited on 1/6/22 at 8:05 am
Posted on 1/6/22 at 8:04 am to Palmetto98
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don’t you fricking dare bring up city proper populations
Lulz. Dallas proper is one of the ten largest municipalities in the nation. Not like this is Atlanta.
The Skyline in Dallas is cool, some great buildings. View from the south at night is really nice. Is it Chicago or New York? No, but it wasn’t built to be that dense because there was excess land on which to expand.
DC has building height ordinances.
Philly is one of the shittiest cities in the country
Phoenix doesn’t really have a downtown
Los angles doesn’t have much of one either, at least not relative to the size of the MSA.
This post was edited on 1/6/22 at 8:07 am
Posted on 1/6/22 at 8:12 am to The Third Leg
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Philly is one of the shittiest cities in the country
I agree 100%. I loathe Philadelphia - not just because of the problems in that city, but the general attitude and quality of person in the well to do neighborhoods and suburbs. Bunch of assholes.
But....Philly has an awesome skyline IMO. It's no Chicago, but it's very cool.
I used to live in the Pittsburgh area and I always appreciated how pretty it was, especially in the fall with the the bright foliage. The food is terrible there and the traffic is a nightmare. But it's a pretty town. My office was in the glass PPG building that's sheathed in glass but has those gothic design elements.
Not a fan of the old US Steel building (now UPMC).
Posted on 1/6/22 at 8:14 am to dewster
Philly does have a nice skyline.
I like downtown Pittsburgh a lot, but after 5pm it was a ghost town. Not sure if that’s changed, I haven’t been out in a decade now.
I like downtown Pittsburgh a lot, but after 5pm it was a ghost town. Not sure if that’s changed, I haven’t been out in a decade now.
Posted on 1/6/22 at 8:16 am to GreatLakesTiger24
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Interesting takes
And Dallas skyline > Houston skyline
This was the view from my apartment sophomore year in college. It looked like this about 4 days a year after a big rain storm. Often you couldn't see the mountains at all.
The think all of these cities have in common is being relatively young and nasty, massive urban sprawl.
Posted on 1/6/22 at 8:17 am to Im4datigers
Living in northern Virginia and commuting on 66 everyday is not “DC”
Posted on 1/6/22 at 8:18 am to Palmetto98
Looking at all of these second tier cities like Birmingham, Oklahoma City, Baton Rouge, and Memphis....
....there are a lot of giant and mostly ugly bank towers that were constructed in the 1970s-1990s that will have to be repurposed in the future. There just isn't demand for that kind of office space, especially after Covid.
....there are a lot of giant and mostly ugly bank towers that were constructed in the 1970s-1990s that will have to be repurposed in the future. There just isn't demand for that kind of office space, especially after Covid.
Posted on 1/6/22 at 8:19 am to member12
Bogalusa's was nice in the 70's but has fallen on hard times.
Posted on 1/6/22 at 8:20 am to East Coast Band
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There aren't many foreign cities with impressive skylines, exception to Hong Kong and probably a few Chinese ones, if you can see them through the smog.
If I were going to design a city, I'd try to keep the heights of most of the buildings below 8 floors. And I wouldn't have a single designated CBD.
A centralized office oriented neighborhood surrounded by a bunch of single family homes just means people have to commute in from far away.
Posted on 1/6/22 at 8:26 am to Shamoan
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Charleston
Can’t build anything taller than St. Matthew’s Lutheran Church steeple.
Posted on 1/6/22 at 8:32 am to Palmetto98
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The most disappointing skylines
1). Dallas, TX. This city is the fourth largest in the country(don’t you fricking dare bring up city proper populations) yet the skyline felt so underwhelming especially compared to Houston, TX.
its like the grand canyon...you just can't capture it in pictures...
Posted on 1/6/22 at 8:34 am to Eat Your Crow
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Dallas, TX. This city is the fourth largest in the country
link?
4th largest metro area
Posted on 1/6/22 at 8:39 am to KiwiHead
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DC cannot have any structures taller than the Washington monument.
That's actually a myth. There is a height restriction but it doesn't have to do with the Washington Monument:
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“The Height Act is not based on the height of the Washington Monument. It is not based on the height of the Capitol dome,” says Andrew Trueblood, director of the D.C. Office of Planning. He’s also the author of “D.C.’s Marble Ceiling: Urban Height and its Regulation in Washington, D.C.,” a graduate thesis on the federal law and its impact on the city’s development.
Instead, it’s The Cairo that’s to blame (or thank, depending on your point of view). The 12-story, 164-foot-tall residential building was built by developer Thomas Franklin Schneider in 1894. Owing largely to advances in construction technology, the building at 16th and Q Streets N.W. rose far above anything else the city had ever seen. District residents at the time were concerned about fire safety, aesthetics and public health issues caused by the building’s long shadows.
That prompted Congress to act. It enacted two laws — one in 1899, and a more detailed follow-up in 1910 — specifying how tall buildings in different parts of town could be: 90 feet in residential areas, 130 feet in most commercial areas and 160 feet along a handful of roadways, including Pennsylvania Avenue.
D.C. wasn’t alone — many U.S. cities had similar height restrictions. But while most of those have since been repealed — Los Angeles in 1957, Boston in the 1960s, San Francisco in 1967 — D.C.’s are enshrined in federal law. The city gained an elected mayor and legislature in 1975, but there was little they could do to amend or repeal the law, other than ask Congress nicely.
LINK
Posted on 1/6/22 at 8:41 am to Im4datigers
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DC is one of the shittiest cities in the country. No skyline, no heart, no culture. Can’t wait to GTFO and back south when I retire.
There is some great history in DC.
Still hate it and the whole metro area. And it has nothing to do with the lack of a skyline.
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