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Old Posted Jan 4, 2011, 4:28 AM
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Originally Posted by Jasoncw View Post
Detroit is up there, going exclusively by skyscrapers because we don't have nearly as many midrises as other cities do.

San Fransisco has a good group of skyscrapers.

Philadelphia is up there too, but it depends on how you define skyscrapers. Philadelphia has a lot of big buildings which by floor count or height might count them as skyscrapers, but by form they're not really towers or really attempting to scrape the sky, they're just really big.
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Philly's prewar "skyscrapers" top out at around 20 to 25 floors and most are even shorter, unlike Chicago, NY and Detroit. That may be why so many survived and found new uses, mostly residential.
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