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Nominate the greatest skyscraper canyon on the planet
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Oct 27, 2020, 7:03 PM
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yuriandrade
Not the best of the world, but worth mentioning: São Paulo's 9 de Julho Avenue.
Not NYC's heights, but for the whole landscape, with a very deep valley with highrises going up a 50 m hill, with all shapes and sizes with some good examples of modernist architecture.
I also like this very dystopian, futurist, unsettling, non-descriptive urban environment:
https://www.google.com/maps/@-23.560...7i16384!8i8192
https://www.google.com/maps/@-23.561...!7i5376!8i2688
https://www.google.com/maps/@-23.554...7i16384!8i8192
https://www.google.com/maps/@-23.551...7i16384!8i8192
Downtown Sao Paulo is so cool. The layered, tiered effect caused by the topography helps to make it seem like one of the most intensely urban places in the world.
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