Mobile

Population: 198,915 (Metro: 399,843)

Mobile is the third most populous city in the Southern U.S. state of Alabama and is the county seat of Mobile County. It is located on the Mobile River and the central Gulf Coast of the United States. The population within the city limits was 198,915 during the 2000 census. Mobile is the principal municipality of the Mobile Metropolitan Statistical Area, a region of 399,843 residents which is composed solely of Mobile County and is the second largest MSA in the state. Mobile is included in the Mobile-Daphne-Fairhope Combined Statistical Area with a total population of 540,258, the second largest combined statistical area in the state.

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Almost a skyline...
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few buildings,el skyline is saved by the third photography 3/10:rant:

Is the tower in the 3rd picture built or is it just a render ? it looks interesting.

the tower in the third pic is a rendering of the RSA BattleHouse tower which just recently started construction.

The tower in the 3rd pic also caught my eye, and when it's completed it will no doubt make a big impact on the skyline...

...but at the moment, the skyline is truly a sad sight to see. :(

4.5/10



I also just wanted to add that, from an artistic point of view, this skyline gets a few points for being so "sad". :)

6/10


because of that one on the 3rd pic

4.5
4 for the skyline (or lack there of) and .5 because they have a interstate tunnel under the bay. Not many cities with skylines have tunnels like that.

yuk :puke:

2/10

4

Its small, but I actully like it. 5.5/10 :)

sad place.. 4.5/10

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4/10

Very small and bland, the tallest building is a joke. The new tallest should help.

5/10

http://skyscraperpage.com/gallery/data/500/2379mobile_from_carnival.jpg

Photos by Jmbreland:
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Waterfront and skyline (2006):
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RSA Battle House Tower (under construction):
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oooooo le skyline es nul! j'deteste le Mobile! less trois points, le deux!

not much of a skyline 5/10

Nice, but other cities in Alabama as Birmingham or Thomasville or Tuscaloosa are much better, good however!
7.5/10

Not good at the moment.
4.5/10

kinda nice! 6.5/10

Mobile looks like a total industrial wasteland, kinda like Allentown but a little less dead. Now, don't get me wrong, I like industrial wastelands, in that regard i give it an 8. But as a skyline, 3. As a place I'd like to visit, 1.
Ever notice, that when you look at a USA map, every city in Alabama brings back memories from high school History class when you were learning about the civil rights movement? Some Southern heritage, huh...

I was taught that if I had nothing good to say, then not to say anything at all. 3.5/10 at best.

Historic, dense, and attractive enough. The RSA Tower is a real winner, however. Mobile is a lot like New Orleans, Savannah, and Charleston in that its real strengths lie in its history rather than a forest of tall buildings. Heck, when you consider that the water table in Mobile, as in New Orleans, is about three feet below ground, it's a wonder they've got any tall buildings at all!

All in all, I like evocative, historic Southern cities and as such, I give Mobile a 7, especially when the RSA Tower is under construction. It'll add a lot to the skyline.

With RSA Battlehouse rising, it should help out quite a bit.

7.5/10

It has some tall buildings, but not many of them ;) And those talls are rather ugly... 6/10

Just a few talls, but nothing special. I give it a 6/10.

"industrial wasteland

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Mobile looks like a total industrial wasteland, kinda like Allentown but a little less dead. Now, don't get me wrong, I like industrial wastelands, in that regard i give it an 8. But as a skyline, 3. As a place I'd like to visit, 1.
Ever notice, that when you look at a USA map, every city in Alabama brings back memories from high school History class when you were learning about the civil rights movement? Some Southern heritage, huh..."



I've never considered Mobile as a true "skyline" city. I never realized they had the buildings they did until a few years ago. From that standpoint, I'm actually suprised that their skyline is as large as it is. Mobile is a true port city. It has never had a need for skyscrapers. It has a buttload of port infrastructure. I'm willing to bet that Mobile's economy blows Allentown's away. All I know about Allentown is that Billy Joel wrote a decent song about it and that it's a crusty old steel town. If I wanted to see old steel factories I'd get in my car and drive an hour and a half to Birmingham, a city with a rich steel making past that has totally transformed from the steel industry to a thriving service based economy and another local economy that most likely stacks up very well to Allentown. The Mobile metro area welcomed well over 7 million tourists in the past year. How did Allentown make out? If Mobile is a 1 on your scale, then Allentown would have to be about -8 on that same scale. I don't see the NFL playing the Senior Bowl in Allentown or the NCAA holding a Bowl game there or the National Junior Miss pageant being held there year after year.

BTW, how can you look at a map of any state and immediately think of civil rights? Most normal people immediately think of the geography unique to a particular area or in Allentown's case, a collection of rundown steel mills. As for the civil rights movement, it was also WON in Alabama. Something self righteous hy####### like yourself always conveniently fail to mention. :bash:


P.S. I gave Mobile a 7. It gets extra points for the setting right on Mobile Bay with the Cruise ship in sight. I also scored it based on the new tower which is just above halfway finished. It could be far better than it is but it is still pretty good considering the relative lack of need for tall buildings based on the local economy.

8/10. Not bad. Stupid name for a city though!

The city actually gets its name from the Mobila tribe. Like so many other U.S. cities, its name is derived from the Native American tribe that originally settled in the area. The name doesn't have anything to do with the adjective or noun "mobile".

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here are some more pictures I took:
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where rsa connects w/ the hotel
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ugly skyline 4/10

Ya know, speaking of Allentown that reminds me that I keep saying im going to go to allentown to take pitures and put the skyline here (there are no decent pictures on the net) their is ppnl which is a beautiful building and some low buildings the make it have a kinda-sortas skyline up close. the economy is actually making a kind of ocmebck. crap, I should have done that yesterday when i was at dorney park (the lehigh valley's big amuesent park)...


anyway, this is a good skyline i think it will get better over time. the one building is really nice. Reminds me alot of Providence. (6)

5.5/10

I have to give mobile a 10/10 because its my hometown and i love it :)

i'm from Mobile. it's better than some of these other rinky dink towns in the south. The RSA tower is gonna be HUGE! :master: It's taller than all of the buildings in New Orleans. Mobile will look more like Atlanta, but i know Mobile can't touch Atlanta.

Old Mobile: 5
New Mobile(with tower, cruise ship terminal, condos, courthouse, suspension bridge, & maybe a riverwalk mall): 9

I have to give mobile a 10/10 because its my hometown and i love it :)

ditto

5... nothing special here.

some of the ugliest buildings I have seen...especially for "talls." However, the new building is a GEM and will blow the other away!

6/10

It looks very nice! 7

Partial skyline looking northeast:
http://skyscraperpage.com/gallery/data/610/3034mobskyline1.jpg

From Haldcottingham:
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Cool name for a city :| :yes: :P

I wouldn't like to be found dead in this city

6/10

i'm from Mobile. it's better than some of these other rinky dink towns in the south. The RSA tower is gonna be HUGE! :master: It's taller than all of the buildings in New Orleans. Mobile will look more like Atlanta, but i know Mobile can't touch Atlanta.

Old Mobile: 5
New Mobile(with tower, cruise ship terminal, condos, courthouse, suspension bridge, & maybe a riverwalk mall): 9

What do you mean Mobile will look like Atlanta?

What do you mean Mobile will look like Atlanta?

i was exaggerating. RSA tower is so tall. maybe Mob-town will make another one.

new pics from www.skyscraperpage.com

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4.5/10

I've never heard of this place. Really cool name though mobile.

5/10

Looks alot nicer in real life ill give it a 7.5

4.

apart from the new scraper it looks a bit depressing... 4.5/10

RSA Tower update:

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8/10- it can use a few more buildings (even with the ones under construction).

Mobile, AL, Nov. 2006

credit www.skyscraperpage.com

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Nice pictures, nice buildings, RSA gives it a nice identity
8/10

5/10

Eddy,

Good pics, but I think it's time for some updated pics shot as you approach the Wallace Tunnel going both east and west on I-10. I'd post some if I knew how too. I passed through Mobile this past weekend and the skyline looks awesome as you approach the I-10 tunnel from either direction. The eastbound approach is especially cool as you get a very cool angle of what has become a great skyline for a relatively small city.

7.5/10, the *** RSA battle house ***** looks good in the *******

the skyline looks good. it's very nice with the new tower. it needs some more buildings though. i give it an 8/10

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5/10

6/10. One extremely tall one and then the rest of the skyline. There isn't even density.

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Mobile is......interesting. The skyline to me is ugly. The city is mostly ugly, but the downtown area is actually kind of charming.

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8. Good. Regards.

6.5/10

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5.5/10!

6/10

Growing........ 6.0/10

9/10

Decent skyline for the small city. 6/10

6/10

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This tower (which I refer to as the "Tombstone") is currently getting some extensive work done...although, the developer is keeping the final result a bit of a surprise. Hopefully it's a good one.
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6/10. Nice little skyline.

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6/10

http://farm2.staticflickr.com/1307/4707691267_dc465f53e5_b.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/21639834@N05/4707691267/)
Mobile, Alabama (http://www.flickr.com/photos/21639834@N05/4707691267/) by Denis Tangney Jr (http://www.flickr.com/people/21639834@N05/), on Flickr