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Originally Posted by the urban politician
For me it's about variability in heights and buildings from different periods.
Toronto has a jumble of highrises but its skyline doesn't visually impress me.
Chicago, as mentioned above, has all of these features.
NYC does too, but it's also so huge that it's hard for buildings to stand out that aren't really huge. But its scale is what's so impressive.
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Toronto and Chicago's skyline seem eerily similar from a distance. But, on closer inspection, Toronto's looks like a bigger version of a West Coast city in that much of the high rise stock is late 20th century/early 21st century.