I have been wodering which small cities have the tallest buildings with a level of say above 50F or 200m and a population of around a million.
I know calgary has 2 50F towers and a pop of over a million. Any others?

If below 1 million is your definition of a small city, Frankfurt wins hands down in Europe. Only about 600.000 people but a couple of 200+.

Frankfurt:

1. Commerzbank Tower 259 m
2. MesseTurm 257 m
3. Kronen Hochhaus 208 m
4. Main Tower 200 m

Also San Francisco comes to mind and ofcourse Seattle.

Gold Coast and Perth in Australia.

Gold Coast has Q1 at +320m, with another couple to follow shortly, and a population of about half a million.

Perth would be just over a million, but it's got a couple as well I think...

Well I must add Dubai as the ultimate example of a small city with big buildings, tallest in the world for a small city of 1,2mil

Frankfurt's metro population is not 1 million though, Calgary's is.

http://img284.imageshack.us/img284/9683/miramarpiscina29ea5cq.jpg

http://img70.imageshack.us/img70/4409/panama950ab.jpg
Panama is a small city of 1million,,,,,Panama's Current tallest building "Global Bank" 176m the Tallest blue Glassed Building on the second picture

a 215m residencial tower "Aqualina" is being constructed
One Aproved projectes for panama 2 Tower project of a 70 and 80 floor building "Planetarium"will be Latin americas highest with more than 250m+,,,panama also has a few more 200m+ comin up

http://img175.imageshack.us/img175/1212/panamapanama18ib.jpg http://img175.imageshack.us/img175/276/puntapacifica43tp.jpg

Tulsa, Oklahoma, USA has a population of 393,049 with a metro of 700,000. It has two ~200m buildings plus a 41 story building of over 150m

Williams Center
http://www.bluffton.edu/~sullivanm/okla/tulsa/yamasaki/whole.jpg

Citiplex Towers
http://www.thehighrisepages.de/hhkartei/tulcityp.jpg

Balneario Camboriu, Brasil, has a population of 70k with NO METRO area and tallest is 150 meters.


Ok... let me repeat. SEVENTY THOUSAND. 70k. 70.000 or 70,000 (international or english standard)

Tulle is a little town of 16,000 in one of the most isolated rural areas of France. It has a 102 m highrise :

http://perso.wanadoo.fr/brive/tulle%206%20centre%20p.jpg
http://www.correze.equipement.gouv.fr/IMG/jpg/Tulle_dde_image-2.jpg
http://apella.crdp-limousin.fr/ia19/TULNORD/TULNORD_IMG/tour.gif

And the winner is:
Benidorm, locals call it Beni York!! :D
65000 inhabitants in 39 km2 and more than 140 buildings with 20 or more floors!! :eek2:
http://tinypic.com/b4w32x.jpg
Nowadays, the highest skyscraper of Spain is in Benidorm:
Gran Hotel Bali, 187m. high :eek:
http://tinypic.com/b4w2f6.jpg
;)

Brussels (1 million inhabitants) has a few 100+.

Ostend (my birth place, 69000 inhabitants) has the Europacentrum:
http://www.emporis.com/en/wm/bu/?id=108979

and in Knokke (coastal town for rich people, 33000 inhabitants), there will come this (354 feet = 108 meters):
http://archrecord.construction.com/news/daily/archives/050810holl.asp

Leeuwarden a city in The Netherlands with only 100.000 inhabitants, without any metro region, has a 113m skyscraper!

http://www.skyscraperpicture.com/leeuwarden05.JPG

And the winner is:
Benidorm, locals call it Beni York!! :D
65000 inhabitants in 39 km2 and more than 140 buildings with 20 or more floors!! :eek2:
http://tinypic.com/b4w32x.jpg
Nowadays, the highest skyscraper of Spain is in Benidorm:
Gran Hotel Bali, 187m. high :eek:
http://tinypic.com/b4w2f6.jpg
;)
monaco is the same but 30000 hab

monaco is the same but 30000 hab
I have been in Monaco and there aren't as much skyscrapers as in Benidorm!
:ohno:
More than 140 towers higher than 80m.
:eek:
Check this at:
www.emporis.com

Write Benidorm, then write Monaco and compare!!
:D

i would have to say minneapolis is in the running, pop. 382,000 with this skyline.

http://img199.imageshack.us/img199/3594/img1693a6yr.jpg

i would have to say minneapolis is in the running, pop. 382,000 with this skyline.


But Minneapolis has a 3 millions metro.

That image of Benidorm was made in 1985!, this one is the most recent from that angle:
http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y273/victhor/benidorm118.jpg

2 more

http://img32.echo.cx/img32/4766/debeni017z9eb.jpg

http://www.iespana.es/victhor/versus/benidorm%200102.jpg

Malmo (Sweden), has a population of 265k (don't know the metro pop.) and its tallest is the Turning Torso, 190metres and 57 floors

Benidorm is the absolute winner in this category!!
:yes:

Ramat Gan, a suburb of Tel Aviv, is home to the Citygate, which is Israel's tallest building.

http://exporterenisrael.editme.com/files/InformationsPays/quartier%20affaires%20ramat%20gan2.1.JPG

^ Doesn't the Tel-Aviv Metro have over a million though?

Benidorm look truely horrible, it may have a lot of high rise but it is nothing like monaco.

Benidorm is really great. So many tall buildings for the population of 65k is really amazing.

HongKong?

hk is not small

Victhor,

Well, Malmö (population city around 300k and metro 600k (Öresund Metro 3,6 million)) has Turning Torso, but as for other tall buildings there ain't very much.
http://www.suprasmalmo.se/urban/sspskylinemmx.jpg

But Minneapolis has a 3 millions metro.


fair point. i wasn't shure if we were talking city population or total metro population.

^ Doesn't the Tel-Aviv Metro have over a million though?
According to emporis, Ramat Gan has 126,700 people and is ranked as the 7th in that area on population.

Benidorm is the absolute winner in this category!!
:D