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This is a good example of the smaller skyline being part of the city's characteristics... thus being important... in SD, there's the cap on building height due to the airports... just as there is the limit in DC for the Washington Monument, so how a city copes with it's growing needs and still forms to limits (be them geographical, imposed ordinances, etc) shows a snapshot of the city's character. So to me, this means: is a city's skyline important? Yes, in that it shows what a city stands for/deals with. But must it be tall? No.
San Francisco, although it has a small skyline (the bridges, although in many shots of the city, don't count), wouldn't be SF with a skyscraper dominated skyline, since SF is known to be the European city in America. A small bunch of moderately tall buildings make up the Financial District, but outside of it, they don't exist.
This is a good example of the smaller skyline being part of the city's characteristics... thus being important... in SD, there's the cap on building height due to the airports... just as there is the limit in DC for the Washington Monument, so how a city copes with it's growing needs and still forms to limits (be them geographical, imposed ordinances, etc) shows a snapshot of the city's character. So to me, this means: is a city's skyline important? Yes, in that it shows what a city stands for/deals with. But must it be tall? No.
San Francisco, although it has a small skyline (the bridges, although in many shots of the city, don't count), wouldn't be SF with a skyscraper dominated skyline, since SF is known to be the European city in America. A small bunch of moderately tall buildings make up the Financial District, but outside of it, they don't exist.
When your city gets an earth shake here and there, trying to build the worlds tallest sky scrapper doesnt seem like the most sound idea.
This is a good example of the smaller skyline being part of the city's characteristics... thus being important... in SD, there's the cap on building height due to the airports... just as there is the limit in DC for the Washington Monument, so how a city copes with it's growing needs
here are some pics of shanghai, you will notice there are some break in the skyline, but its really all just a continuous flow of short and tall skyscrapers. its really Disgusting in my opinion, the city is polluted its alway raining. and what makes me want to puke is the price for an apartment. My god this place makes NEern US and SoCal seem like Heaven.
I agree, heres what it looks like, but with no photoshop. the only part of the skyline that looks good is the podong area, if you are familar with that
Washington D.C. is just an office park. I saddened that the architecture looked better on T.V. and pictures than in real life and that it is a city built for carriages (car-friendly city). My feet are still hurting!
It's a livable city if one can stand the country club atmosphere.
Yeah, their downtowns are nice for what they are, but theyre incomparable to Chicago's in many ways. A few tall buildings dont make a great downtown like some people tend to think. And I also said that a downtown isnt everything, but its definitely what alot of people love in a big-urban experience. Ive been downtown Houston and Dallas (twice in the big D), wasnt overly impressed. Theyre great cities, dont get me wrong, but I did indeed find their downtowns lacking. While I could probably see all there is to see in downtown Houston in one day, thats impossible in places like NYC and Chicago. Ive been downtown Chicago more times than I care to count and I STILL find new places that Ive never seen before, I STILL find new restaurants and art galleries to this day, and Ive been living in the area for almost 30 years. THATS how downtown Dallas and Houston differ from downtown NYC and Chicago.
Well, you've stated the obvious. Especially considering the fact that Houston and Dallas' boom is much much younger than Chicago's and New York's. And as I've said before, I indeed do not place CHI on the same tier as NY. I personally feel that NY's city life is light years beyond all cities in the U.S.
Still, if the right choices are made, both HOU and DAL have more than enough room for improvement (some of the areas surrounding their dt's are practically worthless). Who knows? Within the next 50 or 60 years, either city could be another town with an extraordinary CBD.
Half of me wonders if that will be the case, though. Because at the end of the day, this is the South, and downtowns aren't a big deal down here.
Downtowns might not mean much to some in the south which to me is a crying shame but at least downtown Dallas and Houston are starting to build up their downtowns. Soaring skyscrapers mean nothing if its all deadsville.
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i know, but a monument can be in a skyline! and a skyline is just buildings that touch the sky and the washington monument does just that!
absolutely. Just like this one. In fact as someone else said a monument like DC's obelisk is often all a city needs to be recognized or famous to know what city it is. There's the Colisseum in Rome. However, like Paris, Rome has a section where all the scrapers and more modern office buildings are concentrated, the EUR. But it's the Colisseum used as an icon like Lady Liberty above. The Washington Monument does that for DC. The Eiffel Tower sure does that for Paris and before Big Ben did it for London, perhaps still does.
So I see what you're saying, sometimes a city's signature or icon doesn't have to be a building, just a monument or one in the same. The Statue of Liberty like the Washington Monument are Landmarks.
What Landmark would Chicago have? I think of or used to of John Hancock Center.
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