Why Are Skylines Roughly Conical?
Why Are Skylines Roughly Conical?
January 25, 2012 Read More: http://www.carfreeinbigd.com/2012/01...y-conical.html Quote:
While this is Dallas and the exercise is admittedly abstract, I want to show why downtowns have the biggest buildings. And why severing the interconnectivity to them, is why many of Dallas's buildings in downtown are quite empty, for example. As I have written before, Dallas experienced a building boom (high-rises) at the exact same time that the city, state, and federal level were gorging on highway building. Supply was being added while demand was being undercut, shipped out towards the suburbs. Compare our growth to say, L'Eixample neighborhoods in Barcelona and Valencia. These were rapidly expanding areas, literally doubling city size, but they did so aggregately. These are both now considered the "old money" areas of those particular cities, and very much still central city as growth then enveloped them. http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-YsL_PCzMJw...6U/s1600/1.jpg http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-9Ykgoocve7...gs/s1600/7.jpg http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-McaFo1pNOn...Ig/s1600/5.jpg |
Oddly, most of the height in Chicago's skyline is on the edges.
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That's the case because MOST (not all) but most cities have a center (Downtown) where ALL the business happens and where all the MAJOR companies choose to settle and thus where all the tall buildings are.
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Hmmmm
Not so conical http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...mi_skyline.jpg src: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Miami_skyline.jpg |
Why are all the threads in this subforum so stupid these days?
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I would argue that maybe the majority of typical U.S. and Canadian skylines are "roughly conical." And this obviously is not the case in the rest of the world (save for a few in Europe - Canary Wharf, Moscow IBC, etc.).
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:previous: Agreed. Most of the best skylines in the world are obviously more linear than conical, although the conic shape can be seen in some parts of a skyline, like Lower Manhattan in the 30s and now.
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This would be the Manhattan skyline after 2016. Does it look conical to you?
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Ugh the Dallas skyline is not conical like shown. Depends on where you view it from.
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Not conical skyline shot of Dallas.
http://i527.photobucket.com/albums/c...yline_0540.jpg http://www.google.com/imgres?hl=en&c...12&tx=65&ty=77 If the writer of this article had any smarts they would map whether a skyline was conical or not by using a map and determining on the map where the highest and lowest points of a skyline were and then view it three dimensionally and then put a 3-d pyramid over the map. I can assure you that if they did it this way, the right way, than they would find most skylines are not conical or pyramidal. And many cities like Houston have more than 1 skyline. Here in Houston, we have the downtown skyline, the Medical Center skyline, and the Galleria area skyline; which has a very spread out skyline and is suburban in nature. |
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Dallas sure looks short with that neon.
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http://www.aviewoncities.com/img/chicago/kveus3404s.jpg Detroit. http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...oitSkyline.jpg |
The Toronto skyline has 3 "peaks", the CN Tower, the Financial district, and Uptown (Yonge-Bloor).
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Then you also have the lake where you can clearly see the rising land values as one gets closer and closer to the lakefront the buildings get taller and taller until the tallest have unobstructed views. Chicago's skyline is almost like a bar graph of land values. You don't think this looks conical: http://images.travelpod.com/users/ro...k-building.jpg travelpod.com or This: http://cdn.c.photoshelter.com/img-ge...rk-Chicago.jpg photoshelter.com or This: http://farm1.static.flickr.com/54/13...f7eeaa577c.jpg flickr.com Sure some larger cities start to take on a "Dome" shape as they hit the ceiling of where current engineering limits the price effectiveness of going higher (see the loop where you have many buildings peaking out around 700-800' or Manhattan where it's essentially a giant loaf shape of buildings), but as a rule skylines tend to take on certain shapes as a result of market forces. |
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