Top 25 Tallest Skylines in the US
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- Опубліковано 2 сер 2024
- List of the 25 Tallest US Skylines based on the average height of the 50 tallest buildings in the primary zone (central business district and extending out 10miles). Only cities with 50 or more buildings that are 200ft(61m) or greater were included.
This video is part of a series that explores several metrics for measuring skylines.
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Typically when ranking the tallest skylines most list primarily rank cities by the number of skyscrapers(492ft/150m) or alternatively by the average height of the tallest 5 or 10 buildings. Although these approaches are quick and easy, they easily skew the objective data. Using the first method , Honolulu , which has no building over 492ft (150m), would not make the list; yet it's avg height , far excels quite a few cities. It is also one of only 10 US cities (primary zones) with over 100 buildings surpassing 300ft. The alternative methods typically use small sample sizes which greatly skews the data. When using this method, Miami would rank significantly lower, even though it far excels the vast majority of cities in number of buildings over 492ft (150m). For example : The average height of Philadelphia's 50 tallest is 120feet lower than average of Miami's 50 tallest; Miami has 70 buildings over 492ft while Philadelphia only has 18 buildings over 492ft, yet when using a smaller sample Philadelphia would rank significantly higher due to the height of it's tallest three towers.
We also looked at the avg height of all the skylines using the tallest 5,10,25,50, and 100 buildings and decided 50-buildings was the best sample size to truly reflect the height of the skylines. There is no change in the ranking of the top 12 skylines when comparing the avg of the 50 tallest buildings versus the avg of the 100 tallest buildings. At the 50 building sample size, the average of all the buildings across all the cities listed was 486.24ft (148.02m). This value is closer to the 492ft (150m) used in the more popular method. So we assert that the 50-buildings sample size is a metric that allows the inclusion of Honolulu (typically excluded ) and allows some cities with quite a few buildings just below the 492 mark to be better reflected.
Some interesting notes:
-Only 10 core cities(primary zones) listed have over one hundred 300ft+ tall buildings (the top 9 as delineated in the video and Honolulu which replaces Dallas on the list).
-Only 4 core cities (primary zones) listed have over two hundred 250ft+ tall buildings (NYC,Chicago, Miami, Atlanta)
-Only 5 core cities ( primary zones) listed have over three hundred 200ft+ tall buildings (NYC,Chicago, Miami, Atlanta, San Francisco)
Zone are typically defined as followed:
Primary Zone (City Core)- 0-10miles from the CBD (CBD included )
Secondary Zone- 10-20miles from the CBD
Tertiary Zone- 20-30miles from the CBD
The majority of the metropolitan areas have most of their high-rises/skyscraper developments in the Primary Zone (City Core).
In the data presented, some large secondary business districts that exists within the primary zones are already included. Namely Jersey City, Long Island City Queens, Brooklyn, Atlanta Buckhead, and Houston-Uptown. All of these area have a minimum of 50 Buildings over 200ft and would replace several cities if listed separately. Jersey City-13, Brooklyn-15, Long Island City -16, Atlanta -Buckhead -24. and Houston-Uptown 26.
The data also includes high-rises and skyscrapers that are actively under construction as of July 2023 and that are scheduled to be completed by December 2025. Developments that have topped out but are currently stalled are also included. (example: Oceanwide LA)
There should be a global push amongst those who maintain skyline databases to standardize the terms used in the industry.
For all practical purpose, I suggest adding two new terms to the lexicon; "Skyrise " and also "Starscraper" instead of supertall.
Lowrise for buildings under 49m
Highrise for buildings 50m to 99m
"Skyrise" for buildings 100m - 149m
Skyscraper for buildings 150m-299m
"Starscraper" for buildings 300m and greater
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Timecodes
0:00 - Intro
0:14 - St Louis skyline
0:25 - Phoenix skyline
0:37 - Cleveland skyline
0:48 - New Orleans skyline
1:00 - Pittsburgh skyline
1:12 - Nashville skyline
1:23 - Detroit skyline
1:34 - San Diego skyline
1:46 - Charlotte skyline
1:58 - Honolulu skyline
2:09 - Denver skyline
2:21 - Minneapolis skyline
2:32 - Austin skyline
2:44 - Las Vegas skyline
2:55 - Boston skyline
3:07 - Dallas skyline
3:18 - Philadelphia skyline
3:30 - Seattle skyline
3:41 - San Francisco skyline
3:53 - Atlanta skyline
4:04 - Los Angeles skyline
4:16 - Houston skyline
4:28 - Miami skyline
4:39 - Chicago skyline
4:51 - New York skyline
Houston Texas holding it down for number 4 and 5 at everything from population to skyline
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Houston is awesome especially able to drive around its 3 major skylines Downtown Uptown TMC
Too bad it's a hot spread out mess.
Soon to be #3 in population. Chicago is shrinking.
@@corym8358 that’s actually DFW metro. It’s larger than Houston Metro
Interesting!! 🌆 🤔
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It's great to see my little city of St. Louis made the list. Thanks for this video and a shout out to the Lou! I now reside elsewhere ❤
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Thank you!
You're welcome. Thanks for viewing!
This is incredible. Bravo. I have a question about Charlotte’s average? Does it include the 596 foot Queensbridge tower that just broke ground? Thanks! Your videos are the best around.
Thanks for viewing! The recently started QueensBridge Tower is not included. Including it will move Charlotte up to #16.
I love Los Angeles and Miami 🥰 greetings from Poland 🇵🇱❤️
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@@TheSkylineKing You welcome, I love USA 🇺🇲 but I can't live in this country cause guns and fentanyl. USA are dangerous. This is was my American Dream to live in L.A but I staying in Katowice. Love you USA! 🇺🇲🇵🇱
Good job, skyline king.
Thanks , I appreciate the views.
Atlanta has filthy rich in The Big Peach with skyscrapers, new hockey game, education, entertainment & so much more!💰💰💰💰💰💰🍑🍑🍑🍑🍑🍑🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔
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Awesome video and most fair method to rank the skylines. Cleveland has a new tower at 616 feet, and Detroit has a new one at 684 feet. Both under construction. Have those been counter here ?
Thanks for viewing. Both towers are included in the data
Thanks. He will include them finished. Did these two will be added. Please new tallest cites' skylines. Thanks loyal fellow American friend😊
Can you do a Top50? 🙏🏼🤞🏼👍🏼
Thanks for viewing. There are only 5 other US metropolitan areas that meet the criteria (cities wth 50 or more buildings that are 200ft plus)
@@TheSkylineKing still.. can you do a top 50 lol
No KC, Cincinnati or Indianapolis is surprising to me.
Neither fit the criteria of 50 buildings over 200ft . If I removed that criteria, KC would rank 29, Cincinnati 32 and Indy 37
Cincinnati surprised me too.
I never couldve guessed number 1
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This is accurate as it gets
Thanks for viewing! I think this method is far better than using an average of the top 5 or 10 or using the a flat number over 150m (492ft) mark
Philadelphia skyline is bigger then I then I thought.
Thanks for viewing. Philly has a nice skyline.
Most of these cities are not limited of their building height because of proximity of their downtowns to their airports. San Jose, 55 miles away from my hometown of Salinas, has a height limit of 300 feet, because of its airport proximity to downtown. I'm shocked that San Diego made the list! San Diego's downtown buildings are limited to 500 feet because of its airport's closeness to its respective downtown.
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Same with Miami and they have about 20 more high-rise is being built as we speak. I don't see them ever overtaking Chicago but I don't see anybody else overtaking them.
In reality New York City could've been both one and two if they counted Downtown and Midtown separately.
Thanks for viewing. True observation.
Is this true or guessing?
The jump from all the other cities to Chicago is insane, then the jump from Chicago to New York is even more insane.
@@briantdt all factual data
Cool
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Jersey City should have been on there, but I know you included it with NYC.
Thanks for viewing! Jersey city would rank #13 if listed separately .
Baltimore actually beats quite a few cities on this list.
Technically, Las Vegas’ skyline would be Paradise, NV & not the city of Las Vegas itself. The Old Strip is in their actual Downtown.
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Nice, but average of the top 50 bldgs?!?
Thanks for viewing. We looked at a 5, 10, 25, 50 and 100 buildings sample size. Please take time to read the copy concerning the selection of the 50 building sample size.
@TheSkylineKing very few cities have that many "skyscrapers". Make more sense to pick a height limit and note how many topped that.
@@mkphilly We have 5 videos that pick a height limit. Our objective is to explore several methods. There are +/- in choosing any particular method. Simplified example: If you choose the 150m-skyscraper count method then you could say that city-A with just one 800ft tall building and just 10 other buildings that are between 150-200ft would be taller than city-B with 300 buildings that are 490ft tall. That would be an absurd statement. We also assert that sample size has a significant impact as well. In the above example, a sample size of 2 favors city-A and a sample size of 11 favors city-B. The skyline of city-B with no 150m(492ft) skyscrapers would have a more substantial visual impact than city-A with one skyscraper and 10 highrises.
Where is Rochester Ny at lmao
haha.. thanks for viewing!
I want to see more Videos spesificly On Nashville.
Thanks for viewing! Nashville's skyline is quickly changing!
No way does St. Louis have a taller skyline than Indianapolis, Columbus, or Cincinnati.
Thanks for viewing. Although Cincinnati , Columbus annd Indianapolis each have 1 tower taller than St Louis’ tallest (One Metropolitan Square) , neither of them have 50 buildings taller than 200ft (43,35,38 respectively).. St Louis has 56 towers at that threshold;
its average height is taller .
NYC is just ridiculous. I love that skyline. Not a fan of the Billionaires Row towers though. Midtown, Hudson Yards, Lower Manhattan, Brooklyn and Long Island City areas are nice.
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They've destroyed the skyline w those skinny sticks in the sky. I'd be embarrased to admit living in one of them
@@brucekrause2801 Yeah they are terrible. Must be terrifying to be up there in high winds. The ultra skinny Steinway Tower had massive pieces of ice falling off of it this last winter. That entire Billionaires Row is atrocious.
Just drove through NYC today, it's looks as if Long Island City is getting some serious new height added to its skyline with some new buildings. A cluster of buildings that would make for a large skyline in most other cities but are literally just an afterthought in New York
@@WickedLobstah978 Unless I am mistaken and the cluster of buildings going up isn't LIC, but a separate one. Definitely in Queens though