Suburban Skylines

[bilbao58]

Originally Posted by Nouvellecosse

Yonge and St. Clair is considered suburban?

Not to be “that guy”...but I am “that guy” so I’m going to be “that guy” and point out that that photo is St. Clair and Avenue Rd. Not Yonge St. Anyway, in the 60s, when some of those buildings were built, it was definitely a suburban part of town.

[softee]

Great pic of Toronto's skylines! Yonge and St. Clair and Yonge and Eglinton may not be suburban, but it would seem odd to leave them out.

[MonkeyRonin]

Originally Posted by Nouvellecosse

Yonge and St. Clair is considered suburban? Obviously some areas that aren't "technically" suburbs should be included if they're fairly suburban, but this in the old city barely outside downtown.

It's not suburban, but it is a secondary skyline (which seems to be more to the point of the thread than strictly being about towers within suburban built forms).

[Nite]

4 secondary Toronto skylines on Yonge Street, from bottom to top

1. St. Clair & Yonge
2. Davisville & Yonge
3. Eglinton & Yonge
4. North York City Centre (Yonge between Sheppard and Finch)


https://twitter.com/alexbozikovic/st...79554002608128

[Nite]

The Eglinton and DVP/Don Mills skyline


https://twitter.com/alexbozikovic/st...79554002608128

with the the latest additions to this skyline


https://urbantoronto.ca/forum/thread...p.17740/page-6

[dc_denizen]

a good pic of Rosslyn/Clarendon/Ballston, Washington DC suburbs

https://flic.kr/p/RdgXKg

[dc_denizen]

Tysons skyline from Reston, VA (Washington dc suburbs)

Tysons Skyline by David D'Agostino, on Flickr

[dc_denizen]

Bethesda Md skyline (Washington DC suburbs)

Condo skyline by Tim Brown, on Flickr

Bethesda skyline panorama by Tim Brown, on Flickr

[dc_denizen]

Alexandria, VA (Washington DC surbubs)

Metro Train and the View South from the Observation Deck of the George Washington Masonic National Memorial Alexandria (VA) June 2016 by Ron Cogswell, on Flickr

[dc_denizen]

Rockville, MD skyline (Washington DC suburbs)

https://flic.kr/p/sne8Qk

would be interesting to see what this looks like today (4 year old pic)

[dc_denizen]

another old rockville pic (2014)

huge changes here in the last 10 years. that infill is all new, used to be parking.

2014 09 29 - 3211 - Rockville - MC-10 by thisisbossi, on Flickr

[dc_denizen]

Bellevue, WA Nov 2019 (Seattle suburb)

Smooth & Groove by Endless Reflection Photography, on Flickr

[dc_denizen]

rendering (?) of White Flint mall redevelopment (?), Maryland suburbs of DC south of rockville

[Centropolis]

Originally Posted by dc_denizen

another old rockville pic (2014)

huge changes here in the last 10 years. that infill is all new, used to be parking.

2014 09 29 - 3211 - Rockville - MC-10 by thisisbossi, on Flickr

this is a very out of date image as well but funny how its shaped like clayton, mo, also with a linear transit line running alongside of the district, which is very much in the mold of a dc suburban node.


srencoaerialphoto.com

[dc_denizen]

Wilshire Boulevard skyline, LA

Wilshire Boulevard skyline from Westfield Century City by Jacob G., on Flickr

[dc_denizen]

Century City, LA

Wilshire Boulevard skyline from the Getty Center by Jacob G., on Flickr

[Nite]

Bloor and Highway 427 (Toronto)
Here is the small but growing skyline on Toronto east end


https://urbantoronto.ca/forum/thread...p.12130/page-6

[dc_denizen]

Originally Posted by Centropolis

this is a very out of date image as well but funny how its shaped like clayton, mo, also with a linear transit line running alongside of the district, which is very much in the mold of a dc suburban node.


srencoaerialphoto.com

yeah its definitely similar. Mont Co MD is like this (more linear, smaller nodes being built up at the metro stations of white flint/bethesda/rockville/tenley/wheaton etc), whereas the VA redevelopment is more concentric and built around bigger nodes / preexisting cities like alexandria and Rosslyn-Ballston

[Crawford]

I think the NYC metro might be unique in that there isn't a single postwar-originated sprawl skyline. There are tons of "suburban" skylines, possibly more than anywhere else in North America, but they're all built on older urban towns that were enveloped by the expanding sprawl. So the skylines are in White Plains, New Rochelle, Yonkers, Hackensack, Fort Lee, Stamford, Norwalk, Bridgeport, New Brunswick, Morristown, etc. while the real postwar sprawl tends to be woodsy.

The giant corporate HQ of the postwar age are in deeply wooded office parks, often invisible from the public. There are very, very few mid or high rise towers in random sprawl. The NIMBYism is too strong and everything needed to look quasi-rural and cutesy. It's like GE, IBM and the like all wanted to hide.

So, for example, when Troy (suburban Detroit) built up in the 70's and 80's, it came out like this:
https://www.google.com/maps/@42.5621...7i16384!8i8192

But when the Platinum Mile in Westchester (suburban NYC) built up in the equivalent time period, it came out like this:
https://www.google.com/maps/@41.0076...7i16384!8i8192

[dc_denizen]

Metro park