Arterial skylines

[chiphile]

LAKE SHORE DRIVE for about 10 miles north of downtown Chicago (uninterrupted) and another 10 miles south but with significant interruptions.

[Innsertnamehere]

north york in toronto

[ChargerCarl]

Originally Posted by jtown,man

So you obviously never been there.

Looks like crappy, tower-in-a-park development to me. Sorry I don't find building height very interesting on its own. Street level interactions are more important.

[jtown,man]

Originally Posted by ChargerCarl

Looks like crappy, tower-in-a-park development to me. Sorry I don't find building height very interesting on its own. Street level interactions are more important.

And it has it. Even for a city whose summer temps regularly get over 110.

[xzmattzx]

Originally Posted by chiphile

LAKE SHORE DRIVE for about 10 miles north of downtown Chicago (uninterrupted) and another 10 miles south but with significant interruptions.

I wouldn't count that as an arterial skyline, because the highrises were clearly built to take advantage of the views of the lake. The road is incidental. This is a classic waterfront skyline, similar to Miami Beach.

[TarHeelJ]

Originally Posted by smArTaLlone

The subject of the thread is arterial skylines and Atlanta definitely still has those characteristics. Even when Midtown is completely built out, this city's skyline will still be linear because it is much longer than it is wide and there's nothing wrong with that.

The point is that the three individual skylines are not linear...the way it connects between the three skylines IS linear and arterial in that it follows Peachtree Street for many miles. Downtown is not and never was arterial and spreads out perpendicular to Peachtree along several major downtown streets. Midtown is still a bit linear but has changed a great deal over the recent decade and has spread to the opposite side of the Connector with Atlantic Station's cluster along with a big build-up along 10th and 14th Streets among others and around Piedmont Park. Buckhead has also spread out a good bit but is probably the most linear of the three.

To call the entire skyline linear is just false because each separate cluster spreads out on its own, but if you're talking about the way it connects the three separate skylines together then okay. It's not that there is anything wrong with a linear skyline as many cities have developed that way, but Atlanta has three distinct skylines that are connected by an arterial spine of towers that makes it appear more so than it actually is.

This is obviously an old photo of the downtown skyline with the old stadium, but you can easily see that it spreads perpendicular to Peachtree Street, which runs up the center of the photo.

https://www.bing.com/images/search?q...bo0&ajaxhist=0

[dleung]

Two skylines within one of Vancouver's suburbs:

Metrotown started out linear along Kingsway, but turned into this:


Brentwood started out linear along Lougheed hwy, but turned into this:

[Marshal]

Yes, most of Vancouver's have become centralized cores over time. Kingsway is just a very long commercial street with a number of highrise groups along its length. Laugheed is similar, though it is less commercial and more of a through-way. Central Broadway might be the best example left, but not really. No. 3 Rd in Richmond isn't one at all - Richmond's 10-15 story skyline is quite widely spaced over a number of arterials. There are other arterials in Metro of similar form, but none with true arterial skylines.

They may not meet the thread's criteria but Chicago's Lakeshore, Miami's ocean shore, and Atlanta are all very interesting looking linear skylines.

[jtown,man]

Fly into Atlanta, look down. Tell me what you see.