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Mississauga in the foreground, downtown Toronto 28km in the distance (That's 17 miles for you folks still using British Imperial Units) http://i262.photobucket.com/albums/i...psc12f9a7a.jpg |
Los Angeles is one of my favorite skylines in the United States.
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LA may be poly-centric in nature, but a metro of 14 million should have a main cluster much bigger than that. That said, I agree with 'Caltrane'. The LA skyline looks good. It's in my top 5 US skylines.
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^^ Downtown Toronto is more like 30 km (19 miles) from Mississauga city centre.
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http://farm7.staticflickr.com/6175/6...fa917c47_b.jpg By Wally Baba on Flickr http://farm5.staticflickr.com/4097/4...71670836_b.jpg Downtown par le calmar, sur Flickr http://i453.photobucket.com/albums/q...g?t=1349746301 Courtesy of Wally Baba |
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This "small cluster in Brooklyn" you mention. Are you referring to Downtown Brooklyn? It's hardly a small cluster.
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Seattle with Bellevue, St. Louis with Clayton, San Francisco with San Jose and Oakland (both also historic cores)... Come to think of it, all of these are more urban than Burnaby or Mississaugua, regardless of how many highrises they have, and despite better transit than typical in the US. New Westminster and North Vancouver are more urban examples.
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Grand Rapid's (MI) Grand River flooding before(December)-and-after:
http://sphotos-b.xx.fbcdn.net/hphoto...72650799_n.jpg Dave Guthrie, Grand Rapids Press |
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Yes, Miami has lots. Also Dallas, Houston, Atlanta, KC, even Phoenix has two. Most major cities have some suburban office districts like those. |
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Not on the same scale, true. But real urbanity has certainly been built in the past 20 years. In my area, Bellevue is our (one) suburban highrise district. It has lots of holes and needs another boom or two to be cohesive, but urban formats have been the norm since the late 80s, with buildings out to the lot lines. This is on a canvas of typical 1950s suburbia.
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Downtown Oakland (about 6 or so miles from downtown SF, as the crow flies) Downtown San Jose (about 40 miles from downtown SF, as the crow flies) And then there are the the small highrise/midrise clusters in various suburbs like Emeryville, South San Francisco, San Mateo, Palo Alto, Berkeley, Santa Clara, etc. Most of those are just a handful of midrises with maybe one or two short highrises poking out, but they do stand out from the sea of lowrises. There's nothing even close to a Mississauga-sized suburban skyline here though. |
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