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Originally Posted by iheartthed
Got it.
Wanted to loop back to this discussion. The charts that Steely put up illustrate the point I was making before. Pre-1980 Detroit was a tall skyline for that era. By my rough count, only NYC and Chicago were well ahead by 1980. It's just most of the +150m construction occurred after 1980, which coincided with Detroit's fall out of the top 5.
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True, Detroit was certainly declining by the 80s skyscraper boom...
... but have you heard anything about Pittsburgh’s economic/population fortunes in the 1980s?
Take a look what Pittsburgh built in the 1980s during massive decline at economic depression levels.
Take a look at what Cincinnati built in the 80s (on a smaller scale than Pittsburgh) vs what Cleveland built or what Buffalo built or what Detroit built. Why?