Emporis List of Cities with the most skyscrapers
This list seems inaccurate to me. . . what about you?
What is the criteria? Shanghai and lots of Asian cities seem to have skyscrapers throughout all neighborhoods, whereas, Chicago (my town), for example, only has shoreline skyscrapers represented. Please inform me if I am mistaken. . . This list showcases the cities with the most skyscrapers. # City Number of skyscrapers from Emporis 1 Hong Kong 1,221 2 New York City 563 3 Tokyo 344 4 Chicago 282 5 Dubai 231 6 Shanghai 227 7 Toronto 152 8 Singapore 125 9 Bangkok 111 10 Seoul 110 11 Guangzhou 108 12 Osaka 102 13 Sydney 101 14 Moscow 89 15 Miami 79 16 Houston 78 17 Mexico City 77 18 Shenzhen 76 19 Kuala Lumpur 76 20 Beijing 73 21 Melbourne 69 22 San Francisco 68 23 São Paulo 63 24 Chongqing 61 25 Mumbai 59 26 Honolulu 59 27 Istanbul 58 28 Panama City 58 29 Atlanta 56 30 Los Angeles 55 31 Rio de Janeiro 53 32 Las Vegas 51 33 Calgary 49 34 Philadelphia 49 35 Brisbane 49 36 Vancouver 47 37 Boston 46 38 Jakarta 45 39 Dallas 40 40 Busan 40 41 Gold Coast City 40 42 Seattle 39 43 Kaohsiung 38 44 Makati 37 45 Tianjin 37 46 Nanjing 36 47 Tel Aviv - Yaffo 36 48 London 36 49 Buenos Aires 34 50 Caracas 33 51 Denver 32 52 Kobe 31 53 Yokohama 31 54 Ankara 30 55 Montréal 30 56 Macao 29 57 Cairo 29 58 Frankfurt am Main 28 59 San Diego 28 60 Paris 27 61 Detroit 26 62 Minneapolis 26 63 Benidorm 25 64 Pittsburgh 25 65 Doha 24 66 Abu Dhabi 23 67 Recife 23 68 Dalian 21 69 Incheon 20 70 Courbevoie 20 71 Sharjah 19 72 New Orleans 19 73 Baltimore 18 74 Durban 18 75 Mississauga 17 76 Chiba 17 77 Phoenix 17 78 Rotterdam 17 79 Charlotte 16 80 Ho Chi Minh City 16 81 Jersey City 16 82 Qingdao 16 83 Chengdu 15 84 Warsaw 15 85 Puteaux 15 86 Miami Beach 15 87 Brussels 15 88 Nagoya 15 89 Sunny Isles Beach 15 90 Wuhan 14 91 Columbus 14 92 Edmonton 14 93 Cleveland 14 94 Cincinnati 13 95 Auckland 13 96 Madrid 13 97 Perth 12 98 Changsha 12 99 Kansas City 12 100 Bogotá 12 |
That looks fairly accurate.
Shanghai and most Asian cities have lots of highrises because people don't live in the suburbs like in the USA, however in terms of full on skyscrapers, few still compete with Chicago or NYC. |
define 'skyscraper'...
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^I was thinking the same thing. Depending on one's definition or criteria -- I cannot imagine that a place like Vancouver for example has less than some of the cities above it. ;)
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looking at the numbers I am guessing they are using a 100 meter cut off. Vancouver has many, many towers in the 70 to 100 meter range, but makes sense we only have 47 above 100 meters
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Nobody could honestly look at a photo of Shanghai and say there are only 227(!) skyscrapers here.
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As most of time for Paris they only took the city proper. It wouldn't be problem if Paris was not only 40 sq mi with many dense urban suburbs around.
In this list there is three area in the dense core of Paris, Paris=27, Courbevoie=20 and Puteaux=15, this made at least a total of 62. (For those who don't know la Défense is located in Puteaux and Courbevoie). There are also sereval +100m tower along the peripherique (inner Paris beltway) Puteaux and Courbevoie are dense urban inner suburbs. Emporis don't seem to be as much regulary updated as it was on the past. I don't see many people using it as a reference anymore. |
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However, you're also right to point out that like it or not Emporis is pretty English-oriented, even when it tries not to be, so I have absolutely no doubt that there are many hundreds, probably thousands of buildings in Asian cities that would be documented if they were in the U.S. but have simply not been reported because there isn't readily-available info about them in English and not enough bilingual skyscraper fans to translate and fill in the data. |
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I think it is still used by companies who can pay for info about buildings or aggregate information about western cities, but as far as being a more general resource for fans I don't think it's anywhere near as useful, fun or even accurate as it once was. |
Judging by Miami's number it looks like those are buildings over 400 feet or 350 feet or something like that.
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The list doesn't look that terrible to me. Some of the relative numbers sound way off, but the relative ranking isn't awful, assuming we're only talking the very tallest buildings (say 400+ ft.).
But keep in mind that Emporis is NOT a comprehensive resource for skyscrapers. They just have local folks collect lists. There is no such thing as a comprehensive list of skyscrapers. Even in cities where you would expect they would be on top of things, they are missing a ton of buildings. |
Emporis quizzed me about my company's buildings once. It was absurdly inaccurate. I replied with a bunch of corrections, and it's good that they asked, but holy cow it was bad.
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Nothing but a pack of lies. There is a vast conspiracy by those folks at Emporis, to piss-off homers. Seriously, everybody knows that Emporis Lists are incomplete, particularly for China.
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A highrise is a building at least 35 (115 feet) meters tall.
A Skyscraper is a building at least 100 (328 feet) meters tall. A Supertall skyscraper is a building at least 300 (984 feet) meters tall. I think it would be fair to include all three categories, since the term "Skyscraper" originated in the 19th century and was applied to any building over 10 stories. |
These terms are entirely subjective. Therefore, to use them to create a list, you certainly need to put that occasion's criteria front and center.
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again this list seems to only include towers over 100 meters, so many cities, like Osaka, Tokyo, even Vancouver have many, many towers between 50 and 100 meters that will not make this list.
And yes, it does appear to be for only the cities proper, not their metro areas. |
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Same discussion for the hundredth time. Artificial definitions, one and all. |
Uh... how do they figure that there's more skyscrapers in SF than Sao Paulo? Are they excluding residential skyscrapers?
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http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_-ZkuKWKlsu...aulo_copan.jpg http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_-ZkuKWKlsu...aulo_copan.jpg There's more than 63 skyscrapers just in that picture. |
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