Friday, April 13, 2007

what are the cities that have the most unmatched skylines

There are a lot of cities around the world that have really unmatched skylines compared to its population, economic achievement....etc.

Some of them are really small or poor but with an amazing skyline, and some of them are huge, rich with decent economic power but with small skylines.

So which cities around of the world do you think have fairly unmatched skylines.

In my opinion, in North America, Calgary and LA probably have the most unmatched skylines. Calgary is just a little city with only 1 million people but look at its skyline!! It's simpy amazing!! On the other hand, LA is such a huge city, but its skyline is somewhat a disappointment to me.

In asia, I found almost all the richer nations have less impressive skylines, and the nations that have relatively low economic achievement have more impressive skylines.
For example, Tokyo, Osaka, Nagoya, Taipei, Kaohsiung, Pusan and Seoul all have smaller skylines than what they should have. However, on the other hand, Manila, BKK, KL, even Shanghai, and Beijing all have lower GDP per capita but have huge, impressive and modern skylines.

In Europe, I think they rather keep their traditional and elegant lowrise or midrise architecture instead of being North Americanized. So by "North American standard," they all have smaller skylines than what they should have.

What do you guys think?>

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