Thread: Dated Skylines
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Old Posted Aug 22, 2019, 4:05 PM
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Originally Posted by plinko View Post
Tulsa has a surprisingly large skyline for a city of its size, with 28 buildings over 200ft (22 of those in DT). And yet, only 4! of those were built in the last 35 years (2 DT and 2 elsewhere) and the tallest of those was a mere 317ft casino tower 10 miles south of DT.

Memphis has 23 buildings over 200ft, of which 5 have been built in the last 35 years.

By comparison, the disparaged Phoenix has built 34 buildings over 200ft in the same timeframe (with only 9 of those outside of DT/Midtown).
While I'm sure your figures are accurate, I'm not quite getting the relevance of the comparison here though.

Phoenix is a MUCH bigger place than Tulsa or Memphis -- to the extent that I don't see how these in any way are members of a valid data set for comparison in this case. I mean... Phoenix is probably what?... 4+ times larger than Memphis or Tulsa.

And since when did 200ft become some sort of metric of significance around here?