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Originally Posted by CGII
Miami's urban landscape consists of skyscrapers with huge parking garages along the coastline, and then small apartment buildings and ranch homes just blocks from there. Milwaukee, while boasting a far more underwhelming skyline, is a very dense, older city built around transit. There is far more to urbanity than large numbers of imposing skyscrapers. Further, I bet you haven't even been to Milwaukee. Please don't jump to such brash conclusions without even visiting the place.
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Okay, if you feel this way,
fine! I'm sorry if I offended you. This list below is what I based my conclusion on as far as
MY IDEA of urbanity and why I have no desire to visit Milwaukee. After all, the website is called SkyscraperPage and not UrbanityPage which is how I found this website to begin with. I was looking for skyscrapers. This list below was a very easy list to type as compared to Miami's, which lists nothing below 450 feet tall because there are simply too many high-rises to count.
Miami is now what I call a 2nd tier U.S. city by the criterion of the 2008 World Almanac. The 1st tier consists of New York and Chicago whereby the World Almanac will list no buildings in those cities below 500 feet tall. For all other U.S. cities with noteworthy skylines, their lists start at 400 feet tall and up. But there are now six U.S. cities for which the 2008 World Almanac only lists buildings starting at 450 feet tall and up which I would call the 2nd tier. Those cities are, in alphabetical order, Dallas, Houston, Las Vegas, Los Angeles, Miami, and San Francisco. Lots of U.S cities have buildings that are taller than what we currently have either already built or under construction here in Miami, but in the 450 tall and up height range, Miami edges out Houston and comes in 3rd behind New York and Chicago. And even if Houston and Los Angeles had an edge over Miami in total number of buildings over 450 tall either already built or under construction, Los Angeles and Houston, both being as large in area as they are, have more than one skyline that many statisticians would not count as one continuous skyline. For instance, they would count the skyline in Downtown Los Angeles as the main skyline and Century City as a separate skyline not being connected to Downtown Los Angeles.
2008 World Almanac
Milwaukee, WI
U.S. Bank Center, 777 E. Wisconsin Ave. (1973) 601 feet
100 E. Wisconsin Ave. (1989) 549 feet
University Club Tower, 825 N. Prospect Ave. (2007) 446 feet
Milwaukee Center, 111 E. Kilbourne Ave. (1987) 426 feet
411 Bldg, 411 E. Wisconsin Ave. (1983) 408 feet
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