Top 20 City Diagrams

[koops65]

For years now I have taken a screenshot of the main Diagram page. My goal was to track the progress of various cities as they increased thier numbers over a long time span.

See if your favorite city is on the list!

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Somehow I lost 2020...

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[Anders Franzén]

I've more than doubled the number of entries for Hong Kong, but still not managed to move it from the 4th spot.
Managed to retake it after a drop to the 6th place at least.

[Etesia]

The top 20 competition is more intense than expected and requires time investment

[Quilmeño89]

Drawing all the buildings for my city (Quilmes), I managed to place it in the top 20 for a few weeks (it had 0 drawings when I started). It was one of my goals when I signed up and I was able to achieve it. Sadly, that was 100% of all highrises, so it won't be able to go back to that spot anymore. It was good while it lasted, anyway.
Now the city is reaching 280 highrises (not all in the database yet), but it will no longer be able to appear there.

Another of my goals was to make Buenos Aires rise in the ranking, for which I contributed around 400 drawings.


Just as the ranking was in 2022, Argentina could have about 9 cities in it:

• Buenos Aires City (more than 11.000 highrises)

• Rosario and Córdoba: around 2.000 highrises

• Santa Fe, Mar del Plata and San Miguel de Tucumán: around 1.000 highrises

• La Plata: around 500

• Neuquén and Bahía Blanca: +300

And we are only two Argentine illustrators, so it will not be an easy task (rather, it will be impossible ).

[koops65]

Yes, that would be a lot of drawings to make! We have a similar problem here in Canada, especially Toronto, too many undrawn buildings, and not enough illustrators.

[Anders Franzén]

Is there any city in the Top20 that has drawings for most of its highrises?
Or even entries in SSP for most of its highrises?

[koops65]

I think Kyiv is mostly drawn... but I'm not from there so I don't really know for sure.

[Martins]

My hometown and ex-top20 Riga city is mostly drawn, only missing about 10 drawings.

Screen from 2013 (web archives)

[Quilmeño89]

When my city made it to the top 20, it had 100% of its highrises drawn (none else existed). From then on, I only add those that are being built or proposed.
Currently, I only have to draw three, and then add about 5 more to the database.

In the current top 20, only Kyiv seems to have most of its buildings drawn, but I don't know what percentage of the actual total is in the database.

[CRKMRRMK]

well ... Martins brought an old list, when tried the millions buildings of S. Paulo to appear in this list. Indeed, with 191, made 19 position, even when SP is one of the third biggest city in world with some 20 million people including ABCD ... but since all my diagrams were deleted.. Sao Paulo is again at the end positions and nobody take care. Kyiv lost the first position because the two guys are still soldiers and that the war is already 1 year old, it will felt down more. China cities in my opinion would be in top of this list, but as soon as china guys disappeared also... well, this list is not representative according real world... koops push Toronto and so lately is at top ... those statistics brings nothing ... SSP must have been much simpler, only diagrams, almost no forum, just some suggestions.

[CRKMRRMK]

For sure, when got ban from moderator in skybar and after diagrams empty, it is almost 10 years ago... Sao Paulo today in SSP is nothing compared to the 1600 diagrams uploaded, and with 115 buildings now, all with all errors back again since a great while, it is really nothing to the list 2022, 1743 for Toronto, New York or the odd Kiev... it is funny but is how this parallel world works

[koops65]

Toronto has about half of its buildings drawn. There are over 1700 undrawn towers over 35 metres. Most are in the 35 to 70 metre range, I have drawn most of the taller ones except for new proposals, which still happen all the time. There are probably a bunch more that haven't made it into the database yet...

[Anders Franzén]

I entertained myself for half an hour by answering my own question:

Kharkiv 99,8 %
Taichung 98,5 %
Kyiv 97,1 %
Santiago 93,9 %
Rotterdam 86,6 %
Jakarta 82,2 %
Hong Kong 69,1 %
Amsterdam 68,0 %
Bangkok 66,6 %
Chicago 61,2 %
Buenos Aires 55,9 %
Los Angeles 49,7 %
Toronto 47,9 %
Montreal 43,0 %
Mexico 36,7 %
London 36,5 %
Tokyo 28,1 %
New York City 20,3 %
Dubai 13,1 %
Seoul 13,0 %

This is drawings/# of entries in SSP for the Top20 cities.

I bet most North American and European cities (and maybe the cities of a few more countries) has most of their highrises in the SSP database. Wereas many other countries (especially China) has very few of their highrises on SSP.

My hometown has 6 highrises. All on SSP with drawings. So that's 100 %

[Quilmeño89]

Yeah, that 56 % of Buenos Aires in reality would be barely 5 % of all existing highrises.
It's probably something similar with Tokyo.

[Etesia]

If Artemco had not been busy with the Ukraine war, Kyiv or Kharkiv could have been the first city to achieve 100%.

[Notonfoodstamps]

Asian mega cities are definitely underreported regarding <150m high-rise/skyscrapers as well places like São Paulo, Buenos Aires, Moscow, etc… that simply don’t keep track of dime a dozen high-rise heights.