Skyline Growth in Your City since the 1960s

[N90]

This infills does fill-in in the foreground is exactly how I wanna see Austin full in around the CBD core to give it that more deep and dense look.

Calgary looks awesome btw

[Innsertnamehere]

Calgary still blows my mind that it's a metro area of only 1.5 million or so. Like, it's the size of Milwaukee or Jacksonville or Raleigh.

[craigs]

Los Angeles (proper) 400 ft+

1963: 2
2022: 57

[Nite]

Originally Posted by N90

This infills does fill-in in the foreground is exactly how I wanna see Austin full in around the CBD core to give it that more deep and dense look.

Calgary looks awesome btw

Calgary is ok

https://www.reddit.com/r/Calgary/com...lgary_evening/

[Nite]

Vancouver

400ft +

1960 - 0
1970 - 0
1980 - 4
1990 - 6
2000 - 6
2010 - 15
2020 - 25
2022 - 35 (includes 9 u/c)

[Nite]

Edmonton

400ft+

1960 - 0
1970 - 0
1980 - 2
1990 - 5
2000 - 5
2010 - 5
2020 - 11
2022 - 12 (1 u/c)

[Altoic]

Miami

The 1960s: 0
The 1970s: 1
The 1980s: 7
The 1990s: 9
The 2000s: 56
The 2010s: 92
The 2020s: 117 (Including the 20 400+ towers U/C)

[Steely Dan]

Fantastic shots Calgary, Vancouver, and Edmonton!

Canada is such a magnificent overachiever (within NA context)!

[Wigs]

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[Wigs]

Originally Posted by Yuri

Canary Wharf is so impressive. It seems it was only yesterday Canada One (?) dominated it. Now we can barely see it.

Same thing about the City. I had a Grow puzzle depicting the City, probably a late 1990’s click. The tallest was a building that is completely hidden today.

London’s rise in the past 20 years was insane.

I was thinking the same thing

[Nite]

Originally Posted by Wigs

A quick check of SSP diagrams shows there was 8 buildings> 400ft in the 70s
https://skyscraperpage.com/diagrams/?searchID=98542014

that's why there is 9 in 1980 and 0 in 1970

[Nite]

Originally Posted by Wigs

Edmonton had 2 buildings>400ft in the 70s
https://skyscraperpage.com/diagrams/?searchID=98542029

do you not understand how time works? those building were build in the 1970's so that's why it's 0 in 1970 and 2 by 1980

[CaliNative]

Originally Posted by Innsertnamehere

Calgary still blows my mind that it's a metro area of only 1.5 million or so. Like, it's the size of Milwaukee or Jacksonville or Raleigh.

Skyscraper construction in most Canadian cities has far surpassed that in most American cities of similar size. Why? Is financing easier? Zoning more easy? Less nimbyism? Do Canadians like skyscraper living more?

[CaliNative]

London is now the European skyscraper capital. Who would have predicted that 30 years ago?

[CaliNative]

Originally Posted by Yuri

São Paulo

1 Platina 220 ——————— 172m — 2022
2 Mirante do Vale ————— 170m — 1960
3 Figueira Tatuapé ————- 168m — 2021
4 Edifício Itália ——————- 165m — 1965
5 Edifício Altino Arantes —— 161m — 1947

From having one of the tallest in the world outside the US in 1947 when the city had only 2 million people to having a tallest with only 170m till 2020 when had 21 million people…

While the tallest may not be especially tall, S.P. has a huge number of buildings in the 20-35 floor range. A vast dense hi rise core.

[Wigs]

Originally Posted by Nite

do you not understand how time works? those building were build in the 1970's so that's why it's 0 in 1970 and 2 by 1980
Unless time starts to flow backwards I don't get what your issue is

I probably shouldn't visit SSP after ingesting an edible

My bad. Confused 'by year' with decades lol

[CaliNative]

Most impressive skyline growth over last 50 or 60 years imho (random order):

Toronto, Miami, London, Dubai, NYC, Chicago, Austin, Atlanta, Seoul, and practically every major Chinese city. No doubt I've forgotten a few. Philadelphia? Montreal? Los Angeles? San Francisco? Houston? Taipei? Manila? Kuala Lampor? Jakarta? Moscow? Calgary?Edmonton? Vancouver? Seattle? Nashville? Add some more that I left out. Some of the cities went from about zero to massive skylines over 50 or 60 years, London, Miami and Atlanta for example, and the Asian cities.

This has been the golden age of skyscraper construction, much more than the 1920s, especially the last 20 years, but the office building construction boom has ended, brought down by the covid driven work from home trend that continues (although some companies are trying to bring office workers back, e.g. Tesla). Can residential continue a torrid pace and make up for the office building slack, or will the boom end?

[Altoic]

Originally Posted by Wigs

I probably shouldn't visit SSP after ingesting an edible

My bad. Confused 'by year' with decades lol

To be honest I thought the same thing.

[muppet]

Originally Posted by N90

That’s such a weird place to build a business district between channels and lanes of water like that. But at the same time it’s very unique and incredibly cool too. Just so damn weird tho.

Yep, it was all VERY speculative in the 1980s, back when UK was the 'sick man of Europe' and kicked out of the ERM our economy was so bad. 1/8 of the city fell into abandonment after container docks opened upstream, so Maggie Thatcher's idea was to turn them into commercial space, infamously reliant on 'market forces'. Whilst many of the Victorian warehouses were converted into luxury lofts, Canary Wharf was given to Olympia & York, a Canadian developer that subsequently went bust over the plan, when those market forces didn't quite materialise.



However fast forward another decade, and London started to boom, in population, in business after the deregulation of the finance industry, and as a magnet for immigrants thanks to our lingua franca - the rest is history. With so many protected viewing corridors elsewhere Canary Wharf suddenly looked attractive as one of the few places one could build high.

Nowadays the docks are still used, with more plans to open them up for leisure:


https://canarywharf.com


www.ianvisits.co.uk, https://loveopenwater.co.uk






The Thames is the cleanest urban river in the world - but is estuarine so is a horrible murky brown for much of its length in the city. The docks however aren't tidal so the water's much clearer, and more attractive for the river larkers.


There's even a seal called Sammy who visits every week (Billingsgate Fish market still operates below the towers, and the porters feed him each time)