Miami 3rd largest skyline in the USA

[noland123]

Originally Posted by Aceventura

Yeah, Shanghai is far under counted, it may not beat New York but the number is much closer to NY than what is listed.

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Shanghai,great googly moogly that is some awesome densuty,absolutely mind-boggling,maybe Miami will have this density in another 50 years.

[theDirector]

150 years

[ukiyo]

if you want to see dense see this

http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showpo...postcount=4585

[QuantumX]

Thank you, NihonKitty!

[QuantumX]

Originally Posted by QuantumX

Oh, that's a very nice shot of the Los Angeles skyline. It is particularly stunning after a winter storm has moved through and the Los Angeles skyline can be captured set against the snow-capped San Gabriel Mountains. I think the Los Angeles skyline doesn't get more attention because its setting is often obscured by smog.

Originally Posted by noland123

So this is what Los Angeles looks like without the smog, beautiful city and what is more impressive is Century City that I have seen in other foreground photos that give the city downtown more density.

People who don't live in California usually only hear about how beautiful San Francisco is, but Los Angeles can be quite beautiful when you see it at the right moment from the right angles, such as from Mulholland Drive, where most of the night shots are taken. I am one of the few people who has moved from Los Angeles to San Francisco and then back to Los Angeles. I went into the Los Angeles forum and asked on their pictures thread if someone could find a photo like this below one, and this is what they came up with. Few people know that Los Angeles looks like this in the winter.

Originally Posted by Kenni

[Barfolomew]

Originally Posted by QuantumX

Sorry, Barf, but I don't get this from any pictures of L.A. I've seen and having lived there before, I know downtown L.A. pretty well. Between 10 and 15 miles is a distance halfway from downtown L.A. to the Pacific Ocean.

Quantum, I should have clarified what I meant there.

In LA, you can drive from one end of 1st street out by the Pomona Freeway, for instance, all the way into Hollywood with wall to wall shops, businesses, towers, lofts, apartments, etc.... The city has that many miles of endless business to cover. Through the actual downtown, sure only about 5 miles I suppose...

Miami needs that thousand footer though, yes, also that better rail system and incorporating some other areas into it's population figures. Then, it will truly rank with NYC, Chicago, LA, Houston, Atlanta, and any other of the "bigger" cities to the north and west. Until then, it's just a town with less than 1/2 million people, tallest building is only 780 feet, covering 36 square miles, and a single line elevated train.

[miami305]

Originally Posted by Aceventura

I did a rough count of the county as a whole around when this thread started, I believe we were right behind Seoul. But Beijing is far under counted from what I saw it has way more than Dade, I would imagine it would be more around Guangzhou from what I saw of the two of them, and Shanghai of five years ago easily beats Tokyo of today, although Tokyo is a way awesome city.

Agreed Tokyo is a way awesome city and very clean.

[miami305]

Originally Posted by theDirector

150 years

I hope not..... Way to crazy. The way we are building is working fine, IMO...we just need a couple of taller buildings and a very nice rail system and I think we will be set....ohh...almost forgot....and get all those homeless people off the streets of downtown Miami and South Beach (especially along Washington Ave).

[k25150]

Hong Kong 1, Chicago 2

Minneapolis should get more credit as a top US skyline.

[Aceventura]

Originally Posted by miami305

Agreed Tokyo is a way awesome city and very clean.

I was walking around Shibuya with my friend who was born in Yokohama and works in Tokyo, I asked him since there are no trash cans on the side walks where do people throw their trash, because they obviously do not throw it on the ground. He said he had no idea what people did with their trash.

[ukiyo]

They throw it away in the place they got it from or at home. The reason there's no public trash cans is because of "terrorist threat" which is BS... Now think about how clean tokyo is, you can't even find trash anywhere..if there were trash cans it would be even cleaner

Here is my video walking in Tokyo

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6K9WcRCAqmM

[miami305]

Originally Posted by k25150

Hong Kong 1, Chicago 2

Minneapolis should get more credit as a top US skyline.

I did not know Hong Kong was a U.S. City???????

[miami305]

...NihonKitty.....Tokyo is a very clean and beautiful city...I wish to go back again soon. It was amazing when I rode the bullet train....the minute everyone got on it..everybody started using their high tech phones and computers...it was like you were in another space and time...way ahead in technology. AMAZING.

[Aceventura]

The first post on the thread contains a link to the world's biggest skylines, Miami is 19 on the list, the third for the U.S.

Hong Kong is 1, NYC is 2, Chicago is 5, which I think are pretty fair rankings.

Not that it matters, really.

[QuantumX]

A surprising amount of Miami bashing goes on when you review other threads and other websites. There is no real reason for it except that what happened here in Miami with its building "boom" didn't happen in the city where they live or in their hometown. They try to pass off their city bashing as an honest difference of opinion, but if that is the case, then why all the snide, sarcastic remarks and gross generalizations like the skyline is "nothing but empty condos" when the Miami skyline is not all condos and they're not all empty. Whatever. Miami now has the third largest skyline in the U.S. regardless, and I did the numbers myself over two years ago before I ever read this anywhere or heard this from anybody. It was pretty shocking to me because I wasn't expecting the result I got.

[ukiyo]

It's one thing for people to disagree with Miami being #3 and bashing it. With that being said alot of people are not used to Condo skyscrapers like Miami has and for many people I assume they feel like it's not real buildings or something. Which is nonsense, but it doesn't really matter afterall Miami just needs to get a supertall (which it is right?) and then it's position as #3 in US can't be questioned by anyone anymore..

By the way if you personally ask me what is the most underestimated city in the world and especially on this website it's of course Tokyo. Just look at this Panorama
http://www.neox.to/skytree/tokyo20100104.jpg
^ Click link since it's kind of big to post here. Sky tree is on the right of this photo but it's not even halfway done when that pic was taken.

If you have the time check out this video (which I made in HD).

[QuantumX]

Thanks, NihonKitty! I guess people who are used to a 600 feet tall building being a dark glass office tower just don't know what to make of a white or pastel-colored 600 feet tall building with balconies going clear up to the top of the building, but I think it is absolutely an amazing thing. Before the Santa Maria was completed in 1997, I didn't know that buildings over 500 feet tall could even have balconies because of the increased wind load produced by the balconies during a storm. And I see these buildings as literally being castles in the air giving the city a storybook kind of quality. To me, driving across the Rickenbacker Causeway, the Miami skyline as it stands today looks like something out of a fairy tale. I guess people figure a "serious" skyline is not supposed to look like that, but I think it's amazing that it does. And the supertall is in the works. The powers-that-be are well aware of what you've said, and you will probably be able to visit the observation deck five years from now.

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[isaidso]

Originally Posted by Aceventura

All of Dade together easily passes Toronto.

Are you sure about that? You realize that Toronto has lots of skylines besides the downtown one, and the downtown skyline is bigger than what you see from the lake:

Toronto

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http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1383/...a47e4557_b.jpg

[QuantumX]

Originally Posted by isaidso

Are you sure about that? You realize that Toronto has lots of skylines besides the downtown one, and the downtown skyline is bigger than what you see from the lake:

Then, could perhaps provide us with a photograph that is more of an example of the point you are making rather than the one you posted which doesn't speak to that.

[rockin'.baltimorean]

go miami!!!!!!