HomeDiagramsDatabaseMapsForum About
     

Go Back   SkyscraperPage Forum > Discussion Forums > City Discussions


Reply

 
Thread Tools Display Modes
     
     
  #1  
Old Posted Sep 23, 2021, 11:02 PM
Dariusb Dariusb is offline
Registered User
 
Join Date: May 2010
Location: Belton, TX
Posts: 1,125
Another Capital City?

If you could pick another capital city for your state, what would it be?
Reply With Quote
     
     
  #2  
Old Posted Sep 23, 2021, 11:06 PM
wwmiv wwmiv is offline
Registered User
 
Join Date: Sep 2009
Location: Austin -> San Antonio -> Columbia -> San Antonio -> Chicago -> Austin -> Denver
Posts: 5,271
Quote:
Originally Posted by Dariusb View Post
If you could pick another capital city for your state, what would it be?
I’d split the functions between cities:

Executive: Dallas
Judicial: Houston
Legislative: San Antonio
__________________
HTOWN: 2305k (+10%) + MSA suburbs: 4818k (+26%) + CSA exurbs: 190k (+6%)
BIGD: 1304k (+9%) + MSA div. suburbs: 3826k (+26%) + adj. CSA exurbs: 394k (+8%)
FTW: 919k (+24%) + MSA div. suburbs: 1589k (+14%) + adj. CSA exurbs: 90k (+12%)
SATX: 1435k (+8%) + MSA suburbs: 1124k (+38%) + CSA exurbs: 18k (+11%)
ATX: 962k (+22%) + MSA suburbs: 1322k (+43%)
Reply With Quote
     
     
  #3  
Old Posted Sep 23, 2021, 11:20 PM
Centropolis's Avatar
Centropolis Centropolis is offline
disneypilled verhoevenist
 
Join Date: Nov 2009
Location: saint louis
Posts: 11,866
i mean i’d rewind the clock and re-establish the missouri territory with st. louis as capital again. y’all can do whatever you want just send the money to st. louis.
__________________
You may Think you are vaccinated but are you Maxx-Vaxxed ™!? Find out how you can “Maxx” your Covid-36 Vaxxination today!
Reply With Quote
     
     
  #4  
Old Posted Sep 23, 2021, 11:32 PM
JManc's Avatar
JManc JManc is offline
Dryer lint inspector
 
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Houston/ SF Bay Area
Posts: 37,789
Houston. We are also a former national capital.
Reply With Quote
     
     
  #5  
Old Posted Sep 24, 2021, 12:19 AM
Steely Dan's Avatar
Steely Dan Steely Dan is offline
devout Pizzatarian
 
Join Date: Jul 2001
Location: Lincoln Square, Chicago
Posts: 29,635
Considering that over 70% of Illinois's population lives up in Chicagoland, it'd probably make sense to move the state capital from springfield to............ Cicero.
__________________
"Missing middle" housing can be a great middle ground for many middle class families.
Reply With Quote
     
     
  #6  
Old Posted Sep 24, 2021, 12:22 AM
Centropolis's Avatar
Centropolis Centropolis is offline
disneypilled verhoevenist
 
Join Date: Nov 2009
Location: saint louis
Posts: 11,866
Quote:
Originally Posted by Steely Dan View Post
Considering that over 70% of Illinois's population lives up in Chicagoland, it'd probably make sense to move the state capital from springfield to............ Cicero.
ha. yeah. kind of sucks having meetings in springfield…although that’s kind of a thing of the past now anyway.
__________________
You may Think you are vaccinated but are you Maxx-Vaxxed ™!? Find out how you can “Maxx” your Covid-36 Vaxxination today!
Reply With Quote
     
     
  #7  
Old Posted Sep 24, 2021, 12:36 AM
Buckeye Native 001 Buckeye Native 001 is offline
E pluribus unum
 
Join Date: Aug 2003
Location: Arizona
Posts: 31,262
Apache Junction
Reply With Quote
     
     
  #8  
Old Posted Sep 24, 2021, 12:45 AM
MolsonExport's Avatar
MolsonExport MolsonExport is offline
The Vomit Bag.
 
Join Date: Oct 2003
Location: Otisburgh
Posts: 44,716
St. Louis-du-Ha!-Ha!
__________________
"If you can convince the lowest white man he's better than the best colored man, he won't notice you're picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he'll empty his pockets for you."-President Lyndon B. Johnson Donald Trump is a poor man's idea of a rich man, a weak man's idea of a strong man, and a stupid man's idea of a smart man. Am I an Asseau?
Reply With Quote
     
     
  #9  
Old Posted Sep 24, 2021, 12:45 AM
pj3000's Avatar
pj3000 pj3000 is offline
Registered User
 
Join Date: Jun 2005
Location: Pittsburgh & Miami
Posts: 7,544
Pennsylvania: State College

Florida: Orlando
Reply With Quote
     
     
  #10  
Old Posted Sep 24, 2021, 1:32 AM
jd3189 jd3189 is offline
An Optimistic Realist
 
Join Date: Dec 2010
Location: Loma Linda, CA / West Palm Beach, FL
Posts: 5,571
Yeah, I would also agree with Orlando. Having the political center of the state be closer to the more populated metros would do wonders for representation.
__________________
Working towards making American cities walkable again!
Reply With Quote
     
     
  #11  
Old Posted Sep 24, 2021, 1:35 AM
SIGSEGV's Avatar
SIGSEGV SIGSEGV is offline
He/his/him. >~<, QED!
 
Join Date: Jun 2018
Location: Loop, Chicago
Posts: 5,991
Springfield is too close to the bulk of Illinois's population. Should move the capital to Cairo.
__________________
And here the air that I breathe isn't dead.
Reply With Quote
     
     
  #12  
Old Posted Sep 24, 2021, 2:16 AM
jbermingham123's Avatar
jbermingham123 jbermingham123 is offline
Registered (Nimby Ab)User
 
Join Date: Jun 2012
Location: At a computer, wasting my life on a skyscraper website
Posts: 742
The capital of maine really shouldve been portland... The population of northern massachussetts was already spread pretty thin to begin with

Also Juneau for Alaska? i mean come on lol
__________________
You guys are laughing now but Jacksonville will soon assume its rightful place as the largest and most important city on Earth.

I heard the UN is moving its HQ there. The eiffel tower is moving there soon as well. Elon Musk even decided he didnt want to go to mars anymore after visiting.
Reply With Quote
     
     
  #13  
Old Posted Sep 24, 2021, 2:16 AM
craigs's Avatar
craigs craigs is online now
Birds Aren't Real!
 
Join Date: May 2019
Location: Los Angeles
Posts: 6,670
Somewhere in the Los Angeles area, which is by far the state's most populous region.
__________________
Donald Trump is America's Hitler.
Reply With Quote
     
     
  #14  
Old Posted Sep 24, 2021, 9:14 AM
10023's Avatar
10023 10023 is offline
Registered User
 
Join Date: Jun 2007
Location: London
Posts: 21,146
Quote:
Originally Posted by Steely Dan View Post
Considering that over 70% of Illinois's population lives up in Chicagoland, it'd probably make sense to move the state capital from springfield to............ Cicero.
Nah just make it Chicago and put it on the West Side.

They could build part of Daniel Burnham’s plan, just a bit farther west:



Or more realistically just turn the whole wasteland around the United Center in to a state government complex. The UC itself could be moved - these stadiums have a limited working life anyway. Eventually the West Loop would just merge this with downtown and Garfield Park would be filled up with civil servant families.
__________________
There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there always has been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that "my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge." - Isaac Asimov
Reply With Quote
     
     
  #15  
Old Posted Sep 24, 2021, 11:29 AM
JMKeynes JMKeynes is offline
BANNED
 
Join Date: Aug 2017
Location: SW3
Posts: 4,216
Florida talks about moving to Orlando, which makes sense. Tallahassee makes no sense.
Reply With Quote
     
     
  #16  
Old Posted Sep 24, 2021, 11:36 AM
Yuri's Avatar
Yuri Yuri is offline
Registered User
 
Join Date: Sep 2008
Posts: 4,478
In the 1970's there were talks to move São Paulo's capital to same city upstate.

In Brazil, state capitals are the biggest cities in the 26 states and on daily language "capital = big city". People, the press, always talk about "capital" and "interior" (hinterland) when discussing all kinds of matters concerning states.

I don't think to move the capitals are necessary at all. Just a waste of money. Gladly, there's no such talks in Brazil.

----------------------------------------------

About the US, I guess I'd like to see St. Louis and/or Kansas City as secondary capitals or move the capital to St. Louis altogether.
__________________
London - São Paulo - Rio de Janeiro - Londrina - Frankfurt
Reply With Quote
     
     
  #17  
Old Posted Sep 24, 2021, 1:13 PM
pj3000's Avatar
pj3000 pj3000 is offline
Registered User
 
Join Date: Jun 2005
Location: Pittsburgh & Miami
Posts: 7,544
I actually think we should do away with state capitals in the US because I think we should do away with states and have a federally-linked "city-state" style system with outlying territories.

Just makes so much more sense than the antiquated British colony model from which we've sprung.
Reply With Quote
     
     
  #18  
Old Posted Sep 24, 2021, 1:27 PM
hauntedheadnc's Avatar
hauntedheadnc hauntedheadnc is offline
A gruff individual.
 
Join Date: Aug 2003
Location: Greenville, SC - "Birthplace of the light switch rave"
Posts: 13,337
Only appropriate:

Video Link
__________________
"To sustain the life of a large, modern city in this cloying, clinging heat is an amazing achievement. It is no wonder that the white men and women in Greenville walk with a slow, dragging pride, as if they had taken up a challenge and intended to defy it without end." -- Rebecca West for The New Yorker, 1947
Reply With Quote
     
     
  #19  
Old Posted Sep 24, 2021, 1:59 PM
samne's Avatar
samne samne is offline
Registered User
 
Join Date: Sep 2003
Location: Eastend
Posts: 3,723
For Ontario, I wouldn’t move the capital cause it makes sense to have it in Toronto given it’s the cultural and business centre of the province. Could be argued that it is the centre since it is the capital.

But a couple cool alternatives:

Kingston: Historical and great setting.

Barrie: Great location on Lake Simcoe. Within GTA sphere and gateway to Northern Ontario.
Reply With Quote
     
     
  #20  
Old Posted Sep 24, 2021, 2:16 PM
eixample eixample is offline
Registered User
 
Join Date: Jun 2015
Posts: 439
Quote:
Originally Posted by pj3000 View Post
Pennsylvania: State College
While there is certainly some sense in moving the capital to the geographic center of the state, I couldnt get behind moving the capital to a less convenient place for the average Pennsylvanian. Not all that many people live in the northern third of the state. The bottom portion of the state has more people and is also what's growing, particularly the Harrisburg area and the Philadelphia area. State College would be worse for them. And a little worse for Pittsburghers, I assume. Maybe the Lehigh Valley (another growing area) would benefit since it would be a straight shot down I-80.

According to the Census Bureau, the population center of PA in 2010 was about 10 miles north of Harrisburg and it certainly didn't move to the North or West in the last 10 years.
Reply With Quote
     
     
This discussion thread continues

Use the page links to the lower-right to go to the next page for additional posts
 
 
Reply

Go Back   SkyscraperPage Forum > Discussion Forums > City Discussions
Forum Jump


Thread Tools
Display Modes

Forum Jump


All times are GMT. The time now is 7:14 AM.

     
SkyscraperPage.com - Archive - Privacy Statement - Top

Powered by vBulletin® Version 3.8.7
Copyright ©2000 - 2024, vBulletin Solutions, Inc.