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Skyscrapers thread: why doesn't europe have many of those?
Originally posted by Imran Siddiqui
Weee... according to GePap's site, Atlanta is 22nd!
Oooh an opportunity to show a couple more pictures of mine.
I must say Atlanta has the oddest downtown I've seen in my life. (but then again, I haven't been in the US a lot)
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Originally posted by monolith94
For those Tokyo doubters...
It isn't that Tokyo doesn't have an skycrapers, just that there aren't any real biggies. (the highest is like 200 metres high. That's wussy man )
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I must say Atlanta has the oddest downtown I've seen in my life.
It is fairly odd . Me, I like the fact that the downtown is right in the middle, and then you go 5 miles away and suddenly you are in suburbia. It's the best of both worlds . And of course, go 20 miles, and you are in rural parts.
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I must say Atlanta has the oddest downtown I've seen in my life.
It is fairly odd . Me, I like the fact that the downtown is right in the middle, and then you go 5 miles away and suddenly you are in suburbia. It's the best of both worlds . And of course, go 20 miles, and you are in rural parts.
5 miles? It was like a mile and you were in the middle of the woods. (from the perspective of a Belgian, we wouldn't know what a forest is if you'd hammer it in our face)
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If you go North or South from downtown you aren't in any danger of hitting a tree within a mile .
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atlanta's downtown is pretty much most of the interesting part of the city proper. except for maybe buckhead and the highlands.
then you go for a short drive, less than five minutes, and you're in what is technically suburbia, but it's so urban it might as well be atlanta (decatur, for instance). most of these "suburban" cities are suburban simply because they want their independence and a lower tax burden.
then you hit true suburbia, maybe ten-twenty minutes later along the highways, in the counties of gwinett and cobb (at least the outer parts.)
a little bit farther than that, maybe about an hour's drive, you hit south jo-ja.
atlanta's really a tiny-ass city; less than 400k in the city proper. it's like most sunbelt cities--huge suburbs, small cities. everybody lives outside the city and a good chunk work inside.
a good portion of atlanta was built in/near a forest. most of those trees are gone now, bulldozed so newcomer carpetbaggers can have their matchbox $300k houses.
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a helluva lot of skyscrapers will be going up in asia soon. a few in korea, several in china, a few in japan and taiwan; several in se asia, too. land is a precious commodity in quite a few of those nations, and they're not as worried as the americans are of certain events.
Originally posted by Imran Siddiqui
If you go North or South from downtown you aren't in any danger of hitting a tree within a mile .
No, just one parking lot after another.
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a helluva lot of skyscrapers will be going up in asia soon. a few in korea, several in china
I think the number for China is much higher than "several".
From my balconey, I can count about fifteen highrises under construction, two or three of which would probably be considered "skyscrapers". That's just within my view in just Shangai.
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Underground parking lots, actually, are the answer.
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Underground parking lots, actually, are the answer.
Yes. Quite. That's one of my biggest gripes about Atlanta. You have skyscrapers, but then multi-story above-ground lots right next to them.
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