Worst skyline

[Phil McAvity]

^Well it's obviously not a field then if it has tall buildings

Originally Posted by Spocket

Yeah , what's so bad about Milwaukee's skyline ? It's not great , no , but it certainly isn't bad. I guess it's spread out a little too much but really , I can think of a lot of other places that are far stumpier , more spread out , and also in metros a lot larger than Milwaukee.

Besides , what's a skyline ? Is it defined specifically by the number of tall buildings it has ? It shouldn't be. I just spent seven hours on a train from Changchun to Tianjin. Every town here (and there are an awful lot of them....like , there is no place where a town isn't in sight) has a skyline. There are apartment towers absolutely everywhere including in the middle of what we in North America would think of as the countryside. I saw hundreds of construction cranes on my trip (I'm not exaggerating and I'm not even including the ones I would have seen from the other side of the train) Farmer's fields have "skylines" here.
The point is that if it's just a matter of saying that tall , densely-packed buildings define a skyline , there are cities of half a million in North America that can't compete with some farmer's field here in China.