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Originally Posted by JAYNYC
Wow.
Yeah, no way Austin, Charlotte, Denver, Nashville or any of the other cities mentioned in this thread rival the overall look of Calgary's skyline. None appear to come close.
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Downtown Calgary is just much denser, larger, and taller. It also includes significant residential populations in the Beltline, Mission, East Village (and to a lesser extent, Bridgeland and Chinatown) [these downtown neighbourhoods have a population of ~50,000).
It does however suffer from segregation of uses (CBD is dominated by commercial towers, surrounded [more or less] by residential highrises). It also lacks the vibrant tourist areas that I imagine New Orleans and Nashville have (haven't visited them yet).