I havent seen this city alot.

http://www.citiscapes-art.com/cities2/providence/69100pi.jpg

http://members.cox.net/djharris/photos/image/water.jpg

here are some aerials from skypic.com

http://www.skypic.com/ri/6-5344.jpg

http://www.skypic.com/ri/5-5189.jpg

http://www.skypic.com/ri/1-5189.jpg

http://www.skypic.com/ri/4-5189.jpg

more....

http://users.tmok.com/~tumble/morepix/wpppp.jpg

http://www.richmangalleries.com/images/Fleet-Skyscrapers.jpg

practically no skyline.. a 5

it's ok for a small city. 6/10

no thanks :(

7/10

Not bad for its population 6.5/10;)

Small skyline, short buildings.. Small impact :) It's defintaely outstanding though.. The skyline is well defined :D

6/10

10/10.
Providence is one of my favorite skylines, maybe beacuse I live near there and go there so much. That site on the side of I-95 between the Westin Hotel and the State House has been replaced by a large beautiful mall.
Some pics:
The Mall
http://www.chaosinaustin.com/trypn/images/trypn080101-2.jpg
http://www.arrowstreet.com/jpg/Provnite.jpg
Some of Mine:
http://photos.msn.com/imageserver/image.aspx?Image=HcZNnT9kkUgFtMlgvvKepahY7yMDrTluYUO7a4kYOtmCqeX*N5ZGjsxnBplmrAaBz9KwmMw2ro8*t3B3!44P2w!pHFdN5FHpH7Y!U9u7wakz4DMYQgKVN69MGEEGKr1CBbboClix9dM$
http://photo.msn.s8.com/MS8zLzEwNTExMzkxNTEvMS80MDE3LzE1NS8zMi9GZV9zTml5eGlQVEpCTVNQWGl6VDln/81561180ea7cd6a48d29e90c1d3083ef/clbk=HcZNnT9kkUgFtMlgvvKepahY7yMDrTlu7mmb0X77ISHeZyGbcEqBOGUof0JQpbfUOkVCL9lMz6I$/jpg.jpg
http://photo.msn.s8.com/MS8zLzEwNTExMzkxNTUvMS80MDE3LzE1NS8zMi9hTVE4cHZlUWZtNE1oSUtfVGd1ekRn/5fe531eb77f9d1d6f76a3fa708745dde/clbk=HcZNnT9kkUgFtMlgvvKepahY7yMDrTlu2rtU0FQ2236VzlwNjlDRc11BlJqzPA!Lu4mTPV35N8E$/jpg.jpg
http://photo.msn.s8.com/MS8zLzEwNTExMzgwMTUvMS80MDE3LzE1NS8zMi85V2g0MkdLZHhtRlc5OFpidVdtWU1n/5dda91a5e08ba3957bf8d56a659e5e28/clbk=HcZNnT9kkUgFtMlgvvKepahY7yMDrTlu7qa6M*GNkCHP8526Mv98ZoWePDeD4M3zFz1Sl3Tp2UY$/jpg.jpg
A recent arial
http://www.skypic.com/ri/1-9005.jpg

Reminds me of the New Orleans skyline. Nice variety. 7/10.

beatiful seaside city

looks like a nice charming New England city, BUT, for a metro population of between 1.2 million and 1.6 million (depending on what criteria you use), it's skyline is very weak.

I give the skyline a 3.5

3.5


Almost no skyline.

5

Not many buildings at all... though it is a smaller city... that one art deco tower is nice

ugly....

4/10

http://www.patrickkennedy2002.com/photos/providence.jpg

http://www.physics.brown.edu/Users/students/anish/Providence/SkyLine.jpg

http://www.dominicains.ca/providence/album1/images/Skyline_jpg_jpg.jpg

http://www.lisafrechette.com/Providence.jpg

http://www.menc.org/connect/conf/east2003/Providence.jpg

i have to disagree with some people, this place DOES have a skyline. but very small though 4.5/10

6/10

6.5

For a small city, lucky that all the taller ones are clustered together very well to create a feeling of density. Has a nice profile with the differing style of buildings. But individually, they seem old and not too imaginitive. Needs more!

Providence has become such a cool city. The skyline is OK. It's stunted because Providence is so close to Boston. Although it's not officially part of the Boston metro, it is part of the metro for all intents and purposes. The city at street level is great in some areas. The built up area is quite large with a nice size dowtown with many architecturally interesting buildings. Providence is easily the second most vibrant city in new england after boston.

6.5/10

I like those freeways .. but the skyline is kind of small

7/10

Looks good.
6/10

Only three highrises, but quite nice (I really like that old, grey building, especially at night) 6/10

I like those freeways .. but the skyline is kind of small

7/10

They may look cool, but try driving on them! You're in for quite a ride!

This is the capital city of my state, and the closest major city to where I live. I think it has a very nice charm, and being on the water, it is a beautiful city and well kept secret. I give it a 7/10. It is a very nice place even if its skyline is nowhere as large as those of larger cities.

Drove through Prov in late summer 2003. It seemed like a nice town and wished we spend more time there. I remember downtown was pretty cramped, which was surprising since it's not a large city. They say Providence is going through a renaissance, playing up to the advantage of the riverfront. I hope to visit sometime soon. As for ratings, sorry NE I can only give it a 4 due to the lack of tall buildings and more low density encirling the CBD. I really wish I could give this town a higher ratings. The TV show really gave it RI a boost. I think it will only get better.

I love this Skyline, becouse I see much on tele-film.

awesome awesome awesome city. skyline is small, but I like it too. 7.5/10

For a city that small, it's nice to see a few tall buildings, but in the grand scheme of skylines, it's marginal at best: 3.5/10.

A pleasing skyline. A handful of towers rising out of a densely packed historic core. I like it! An 8.

Providence is the closest big city to me and i love the city it's skylie is kina weak for a 1.5 metro but other then that its a very nice city and very much on an upswing.

7.5 just because its skyline isn't as big as it could and should be.

I rate it a 7. It's pretty damn good for a small city in the smallest state in the country. But it's not very tall. But it does look pretty at night.

Hideous!!!! I gave it a 3. The fact that it has water nearby is the only redeeming quality I see. Hideous mix of buildings. I look at this skyline and I picture fat, pasty white, tan starved liberals with incredibly annoying accents stolling through downtown with their noses in the air.

Looks pretty cool. I give it a 6.5/10.

6.5 for me!

very bad for its size

I like it, 8.5/10. :)

a nice small skyline but not more... 4/10

Providence's skyline will look different soon as it continues to grow

As best as I can tell, this is how our height ranking will soon look:

428ft. Bank of America ("Superman") Building
410ft. One Financial Plaza ("Hospital Trust Tower")
400+ft. OneTen Westminster
???ft. Second Westin Tower
329ft. Westin Providence
311ft. Textron Tower
285ft. 50 Kennedy Plaza
235ft. WaterPlace Tower
223ft. The State House
220ft. The Biltmore
216ft. The County Courthouse
213ft. WaterPlace Tower
185ft. First Baptist Church
180ft. Brown Sciences Library
175ft. Dominica Manor Federal Hill

NEW BUILDINGS IN RED

The condos in the Power Block at about 25-27 floors should fall in around somewhere between the 2nd Westin Tower and 50 Kennedy Plaza, 250-300-ish feet.

There's word of some sort of spire being added to the plans for OneTen Westminster, there's an outside chance that it could be taller than the Superman Building (becoming the city's new tallest) depending on how big that spire goes.

In my opinion, the typical american city. In Europe it would be a great skyline.

6/10

Why does everyone think this city is so small? :dunno: A metro pop. of 1.3 million puts it in the same league as New Orleans, Louisville, Buffalo, Calgary and Edmonton yet all these cities have much larger skylines. Edmonton and Louis. have only two buildings taller than Prov.'s tallest, and Buffalo only one, but, according to Emporis, Ed. has 226 (completed) buildings, Louis. has 56, and Buffalo 71 while Prov. only has 28. I understand the argument about its proximity to Boston, but Hamilton is just as close to Toronto, and even it has a larger skyline (105 completed buildings) with a metro pop. of only 700k. Its tallest building is 3m shorter than Prov's though.

Despite its puny size, I do like the skyline's density, seaside setting, and historic charm, so I'll be generous with a 5.5. I also love that N.E. style of coure :cheers1:

Why does everyone think this city is so small? :dunno: A metro pop. of 1.3 million puts it in the same league as New Orleans, Louisville, Buffalo, Calgary and Edmonton yet all these cities have much larger skylines.

Actually, Providence has a metro population of over 1.6 million under the new MSA guidelines. The metro includes all of Rhode Island and Bristol County, MA. It's in the same league as Milwaukee, Columbus, Indy, and San Antonio.

With a total of only 1601 square miles land area, the Providence Metro is one of America's most dense at over 1000 people per square mile.

I was passing by Providence last year and well, I found it pretty boring, feeling of gray-sadness

5.0/10

"Hideous!!!! I gave it a 3. The fact that it has water nearby is the only redeeming quality I see. Hideous mix of buildings. I look at this skyline and I picture fat, pasty white, tan starved liberals with incredibly annoying accents stolling through downtown with their noses in the air."

Is't there a God Hates Fags site on the internet for people like you?

i like their freeways :cheers:

5/10

5/10

5.5/10

"Is't there a God Hates Fags site on the internet for people like you?"

Has absolutely nothing to do with religion at all. I'm a political moderate just to the right of the middle. I was just being as stereotypical as the poster who trashed Birmingham and said how he hated Birmingham and Alabama after admitting to not having ever been to either place. The poster cast judgements on the place based on every tired stereotyped passed on as fact for years by elitists like himself. He was on here gushing over how great Providence was. The pictures aren't impressive in my humble opinion. Shocking that a lib would turn a less than gushing opinion of a city in the all knowing Northeast into a hate crime.

P.S. Isn't there a Reagan/Bush is responsible for hurricanes and heart disease site for you?

Beautiful city. Decent skyline. 7/10

4/10

Nice skyline for the capital of a ver little state...

8/10- there's a certain "je ne-ce quoi" about it.

"Is't there a God Hates Fags site on the internet for people like you?"

Has absolutely nothing to do with religion at all. I'm a political moderate just to the right of the middle. I was just being as stereotypical as the poster who trashed Birmingham and said how he hated Birmingham and Alabama after admitting to not having ever been to either place. The poster cast judgements on the place based on every tired stereotyped passed on as fact for years by elitists like himself. He was on here gushing over how great Providence was. The pictures aren't impressive in my humble opinion. Shocking that a lib would turn a less than gushing opinion of a city in the all knowing Northeast into a hate crime.

P.S. Isn't there a Reagan/Bush is responsible for hurricanes and heart disease site for you?So you were being just as stereotypical to prove a point? That makes you guilty of what you are accusing the "elitist" of being. You are a conservative who is passive aggressive. A political moderate would never make the last statement about Bush. Dead giveaway. Providence is a nice city and so is Birmingham IMO.

Sort of. I'm not a W fan if that's what you mean. My comment about Reagan was in the vain of a funny SNL skit where Bush Sr. kept popping up in disguise during a debate b/w Gore and W. In that skit, a Gore supporter asked Gore about taking us back to that terrible time when Reagan was responsible for creating AIDS and homelessness. As ridiculous as that comment in that skit was, some libs probably do blame him.

I didn't want to make this a political thing. The guy's stereotypical comments just pissed me off and I had to respond.

6.5/10
it seems pretty dense in the downtown (just not vertical) and because it has risd, onbe of the best art schools in the country, i'm sure it has a very active arts and culture scene, which makes it better. Also it is close to boston, ny, and the ocean

Hideous!!!! I gave it a 3. The fact that it has water nearby is the only redeeming quality I see. Hideous mix of buildings.

You're dead wrong about this. While Providence has an extremely weak/short skyline, it has some stunning buildings. The overall style and architectural context of the city is very attractive. The historical housing stock is some of the best in the country.

I look at this skyline and I picture fat, pasty white, tan starved liberals with incredibly annoying accents stolling through downtown with their noses in the air.

Haha ... you are actually correct about this. I'm sure that will piss people off, but it's true.

it's ok for a small city. 6/10

it's bigger than rotterdam, so 5/10

6/10

Providence's skyline will look a lot better over the next vouple of years. There is 35-40 story tower going in, along with a few around 25-30. Hopefully someone will take the pics when they are done. This is a great city in New England, behind only Boston.

7.5/10

not bad 5.5/10

6/10

5/10 actually quite good for a smallish city...disappointing for a smallish American city though...

7/10

5/10

7/10

8/10

8/10

9/10

5/10

7.5/10

Some Providence skyline shots

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/42/76391546_c16f099b79_o.jpg

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/29/57647861_371a06f5a2_o.jpg

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/79/236553656_c46d166c39_o.jpg

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2023/1498167939_8561140f65_b.jpg
by marqkay (http://flickr.com/photos/marqkay/)

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3255/2892832098_ccdaea504a.jpgby bryanj87 (http://flickr.com/photos/bryanj87/)

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2193/2071266109_4620fd5724_o.jpg
by woneffe|Cotuit (http://flickr.com/photos/woneffe/)

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2254/2306835602_8323da773c_b.jpg
by jennsunique (http://flickr.com/photos/jennsunique/)

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2326/2270052868_9b049152a2_b.jpg
by nmr509 (http://flickr.com/photos/nmr509/)

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3167/2821605324_3888a3fb6c_b.jpg
by karbon69 (http://flickr.com/photos/karbon69/)



http://farm1.static.flickr.com/97/231696007_0ca1e27add_o.jpg
by beansaremylife (http://flickr.com/photos/62738673@N00/)

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2230/1494134430_99accef8a1.jpg
by marqkay (http://flickr.com/photos/marqkay/)

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3204/2513801307_a6cc9d6143_b.jpg
by Brian'sLens (http://flickr.com/photos/brianslens/)

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/6/5399953_74adb8d531_o.jpg
by Nghiêm (http://flickr.com/photos/surangama/)

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2396/2338262450_bce4317f62_b.jpg
by Dawn D (http://flickr.com/photos/dawn/)

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2004/1673725325_ddc1f46a2e_b.jpg
by Manuel.A.69 (http://flickr.com/photos/manuel69/)

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/99/262580169_37610e8c70_b.jpg

by Art02169 (http://flickr.com/photos/31491248@N00/)

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/92/262580165_84fe85c76b_b.jpg

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1148/836239466_b650e7fd00_b.jpg
by jkr01720 (http://flickr.com/photos/joekr/)

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1036/835340695_743ddd2e60_b.jpg

reminds me of quahog in family guy

So few commie block housing to add beauty to the city. 4/10.

8.5/10 :)

7.5/10

♥ 7/10 nice 1 ♥

6.5/10

6.5/10

8/10 because its one of my favorite New England cities and its great art deco buildings.

7. Regards.

7/10

6,5/10

5.0/10

http://s004.radikal.ru/i205/1002/cc/e080a92dff4c.jpg
http://s001.radikal.ru/i194/1002/fd/b019ce961500.jpg

7/10

That building that looks like the tallest building in providence looks very much like one of the old bad-ass Soviet skyscrapers you see around Moscow. Nice.

http://farm3.staticflickr.com/2506/3806235466_3206082b98_b.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/cthulhuwho1/3806235466/)
O_06B Downtown Providence (and College Hill) from Prospect Terrace (1867) - 75 Congdon Street - Looking South-West (http://www.flickr.com/photos/cthulhuwho1/3806235466/) by California Cthulhu (Will Hart) (http://www.flickr.com/people/cthulhuwho1/), on Flickr

http://farm5.staticflickr.com/4104/5042563105_cc40133998_b.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/docsearls/5042563105/)
2010_09_26_bwi-bos_28 (http://www.flickr.com/photos/docsearls/5042563105/) by dsearls (http://www.flickr.com/people/docsearls/), on Flickr

http://farm5.staticflickr.com/4103/5042567043_03f574d0c8_b.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/docsearls/5042567043/)
2010_09_26_bwi-bos_43 (http://www.flickr.com/photos/docsearls/5042567043/) by dsearls (http://www.flickr.com/people/docsearls/), on Flickr

Charming city, nice buildings........10/10

HEIGHT: 7
DENSITY: 6.5
SETTING: 7
ARCHITECTURE: 7
WOW FACTOR: 6.5
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AVERAGE: 6.8 or 7/10! :cheers2:

10- Exhilarating! & Elegant Looking!
9.5- Almost perfect!
9- Charming!
8.5- Brilliant and Vibrant!
8.0- Really Nice!
7.5- Above Average
7.0- Average-looking, decent
6.5- Somehow interesting
6.0- Has a lot of potential
5.5- Skyline is ok. needs to build more
5.0- Nothing special
4.5- Please build!
4.0- Generally flat
3.5 or less- Where's the skyline?

:cheers2:

6/10

6.5/10,better at street level and exremely dense!

6 out 10.................ok:) :) :) :) :)