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DISCUSS: Best Oceanic Skyline

349K views 1K replies 210 participants last post by  Yellow Fever 
#1 ·
Discuss this week's topic here. :cheers:
 
#230 ·
Lot of great pics on this page. :cheers2:
My ranking:
1) Melbourne - tall and nice towers + dense skyline
2) Gold Coast - looks like real paradise :)
3) Brisbane - has very spectacular towers
4) Sydney - big, dense skyline but it needs some dominating towers like Melbourne has
5) Perth - nice skyline but not as good as those above
 
#239 ·
I was in LA and Vegas last June and noticed just one or two blocks from the strip and the main CBD's it was just site after site of surface carparking or fenced up abandoned sites.

One of the great things that places like Melbourne have done in the last 20 years is to encourage and promote cafes, clubs,festivals and big events etc and lots of after or all hours hours type entertainment in and around the central CBD which has then led to people wanting to live nearby which has then translated into demand for developers building countless apartment towers which creates the vibrancy.

Having a huge tram and train network doesn't hurt either.
 
#238 ·
Honestly, I'm not sure why we north Americans have so many. You'd think our downtowns would be the first parcels of land to get built out, but astonishingly there are still lots all over the place.
 
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