http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/f/f6/Atlanticcity.jpg

Atlantic City New Jersey!?!?!?!?!?!?
Did I read correctly? If this city only has 41,000 people...that's an AMAZING skyline!?

It's tourism based, most of the things are to serve them, like the casinos, restaurants, hotels, parking structures. At any one time, there are probably hundreds of thousands of people (?) in the city.

Atlantic City's a bit of an anomaly. It's an entertainment center through and through. I'm not surprised that not many people live there.

There are lots of places like that. Miami only has 300,000 permanent residents. There are tons of resorts like this in Mexico as well, and some places that are almost entirely hotel cities, with populations rivaling nothing more than Whitehorse :P Tourism is an amazing thing!

Atlantic City was once nearly twice the size it is today...

Not that impressive to me. Coastal resort towns often have highrises on the beach, and considering this one has casinos, it's especially not surprising to see a skyline.

Afterall, look at what the casinos alone have done for the Vegas skyline.

Anyone have pictures of Atlantic City?

Atlantic City isn't impressive since it is a major resort city & those are hotels meant for visitors out of town. Plus the Greater Atlantic City area is quite populated. If you want an impressive skyline for a small city, check out Bartlesville, OK.

Bartlesville, OK - Population 35,000, county population 50,000

http://www.phillips66.com/about/maps/map3.gif

http://www.ok-bartlesville.com/images/index/12_bottomcity.jpg

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There are lots of places like that. Miami only has 300,000 permanent residents. There are tons of resorts like this in Mexico as well, and some places that are almost entirely hotel cities, with populations rivaling nothing more than Whitehorse :P Tourism is an amazing thing!


what,miami is only 300,000 pop. becuase its about the size of my hand,miami is only 32miles and i have a feeling your trying to say miami is a resort which i don't know where you got that from but w/e

LoL

Skylines and cities created purely by tourism don't make it very high on my list. They seem so superficial, without a foundation, and everything they offer is for tourists, not for permanent residents.

Look at the Falls, you could say the same thing about it.

yep...but I never say I liked that either :tongue3: . (all the build-up, not the falls, of course)

well, there are tourism cities that at the same time do have huge populations and the hotels just add to the skyline.

Just a question... do coastal/resort american cities´ highrises have mostly hotels as highrises or do most of these highrises are actually condos which are like a 2nd house for their owners... kidna like... they have a house in the city where they spend most of the year and an apartment at a condo highrise in the beach where they spend their vacations and such?

^ Depends. I think that in Atlantic City it's mostly hotels, not condos. Same in Vegas. But in a place like Miami there are probably more condos.

Miami and all of the resort places like gulf shores and whatnot have alot of off and on condos but then there are the permanant residents too that gambling and 'funtowns' like vegas and atlantic city dont have. Alot has to be countered into timeshare too.

Atlantic City, huh. I've never seen its skyline until now. It looks pretty good, but it is a tourist trap, though. So it shouldn't be a surprise to see a skyline like that, I guess.

Atlantic City's skyline is nice. Overall, it's still a "skyline" either way you look at it.

Bartlesville looks amazing. :)

perhaps inner city is only 41000 inhabitants, I guess really it is well over 200 000...

BTW - to get designation city, a settlement has to have over 100 000 inhabitants.

Bartlesville is more impressive because it isn't a resort and still has a big skyline.

A city is a city when it incorporates into a city. There can be cities with 10 or 12 people.

Bartlesville is a really amazing city---it is (was?) the hometown of the Phillips Oil Company, which commissioned the Frank Lloyd Wright Price Tower, and the tall office towers below. Great place--35,000 city, 50,000 county population.

http://www.bartnet.net/~allred/Bartlesville_files/image005.jpg

http://www.igougo.com/photos/journal_photos/Price-Tower-2.jpg

http://www.pricetower.org/images/0EB_Tower0.jpg

http://www.atlanticcitychariot.freeservers.com/images/atlantic_city_skyline.jpg

there are other decent sized cities and towns near ac on the jersey shore. margate city, brigantine, ocean city, abescon, and pleasantville are a few that come to mind. atlantic county has over 250,000 people, and surrounding counties like cape may county and cumberland county have over 100,000 and 140,000 people, respectively.

i am impressed by bartlesville. my first thought was that it was a suburban area of okc or tulsa, a replica city like tyson's corner in virginia or king of prussia, pa. but looking at the map, bartlesville isn't very close at all. baout 50 miles away from tulsa. very impressive little city.

In Spain , Benidorm is very very impressib with only 45.000 k