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View Poll Results: Which city has the best urban canyons?
New York 33 39.29%
Philadelphia 7 8.33%
Boston 6 7.14%
Chicago 16 19.05%
San Francisco 3 3.57%
Seattle 1 1.19%
Toronto 3 3.57%
Melbourne 0 0%
Rome 0 0%
London 0 0%
Hong Kong 3 3.57%
Tokyo 1 1.19%
Houston 0 0%
Dubai 1 1.19%
Mexico City 0 0%
Buenos Aires 0 0%
Dallas 0 0%
Los Angeles 3 3.57%
Sydney 0 0%
Berlin 1 1.19%
Moscow 0 0%
Miami 1 1.19%
Atlanta 2 2.38%
Beijing 0 0%
Bangkok 0 0%
Taipei 0 0%
Shanghai 2 2.38%
Singapore 0 0%
Kuala Lumpur 0 0%
Other (name your own) 1 1.19%
Voters: 84. You may not vote on this poll

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Old 05-05-2009, 06:42 PM
 
Location: In the heights
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Who are you and why are you commenting on this other person's criticism? Are you his mother?
Look, who cares if I'm not his biological mother--I loved and cared for him just as I would have cared for my own. But I'm barren and we haven't told him yet, so please let's never mention this again.
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Old 05-05-2009, 07:10 PM
 
Location: Oak Park, IL
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A park or bunch of trees at the beginning of this one isn't very canyon like either, is it suck? You didn't point that one out!
Parks/trees are nice urban amenities while surface parking lots are the bane of a dense urban fabric, IMHO. I'm sure Atlanta's great, but I just found it funny that you'd post a picture with a surface parking lot as one of your examples. Stop being so sensitive. We've got surface parking lots in downtown Chicago too.
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Old 05-05-2009, 07:57 PM
 
Location: Underneath the Pecan Tree
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Old 05-06-2009, 09:46 AM
 
Location: Denver
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Nice pics JLuke and Deacon, way to rep the sunbelt.

When I was looking at the Atlanta pics, I couldn't help but think "someone is going to bash these somehow"...it took 0 posts for someone to point out a parking lot.

Guys: not every city is going to have tiny streets like Lower Manhattan or Boston...and in no cities outside of Chicago and NYC are you going to find those mega-canyons. However, it doesn't mean they don't exist elsewhere, even if they are smaller.
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Old 05-08-2009, 02:50 PM
 
Location: Denver
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I snapped this photo yesterday after work. It's a decent shot of Downtown Crossing, which is a pretty sweet urban canyon.
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Old 05-08-2009, 03:40 PM
 
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Some views around downtown Chicago from Flickr:







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Old 05-08-2009, 03:42 PM
 
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chicago looks dead
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Old 05-08-2009, 03:44 PM
 
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Old 05-08-2009, 03:48 PM
 
Location: Denver
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Some views around downtown Chicago from Flickr:
That picture is amazing
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Old 05-08-2009, 04:25 PM
 
Location: Mile high city
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Here's one from the mile high

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