wxman Posted February 7, 2009 Share Posted February 7, 2009 (edited) According to Forbes, Houston is the 8th tallest skyline in the world. We are one of four American cities out of the 10 global cities to make it. The others are NYC, Chicago, and LA.http://realestate.yahoo.com/promo/the-worl...est-cities.htmlhttp://www.forbes.com/2009/01/30/new-york-...thisSpeed=15000* Houston in my opinion doesn't hold a candle to the other global cities. The pic of our skyline that they used is rather puny to say the least compared to the others. Edited February 7, 2009 by wxman Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fewellman Posted February 7, 2009 Share Posted February 7, 2009 Yea that is a pretty weak picture of downtown! Surprised Houston is still in the top 10........ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Geoff8201 Posted February 7, 2009 Share Posted February 7, 2009 (edited) Agreed, I could go and snap a better shot than that by far in a few minutes... I guess you have to live here to know the good angles. I'm wondering how did they scale this? I'm thinking by a point factor... for example... every building 1,000 feet and taller got like 2 points, and everyone building 700-999 feet got 1 point? Possible. If that case is true, The Burj Dubai should have gotten like 3 points on that scale, being over 1,000 feet taller than the next tallest in the world. I'll say it before and I'll say it again on the height of the Burj Dubai... Holy Crap! Seasickness and vertigo for all! If Dubai's situation improved I'm sure they're not far from stealing the number 2 spot, and then I'm sure wanting to mercilessly take over as number 1 eventually. Hopefully if the Freedom Tower ever gets done it'll give New York back a little boost to keep hold of its number 1 spot (as far as this ranking goes) PS, I'm sure this thread would be better suited in the "Houston and the Media" section. Edited February 7, 2009 by Geoff8201 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LTAWACS Posted February 7, 2009 Share Posted February 7, 2009 It's a conspiracy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
citizen4rmptown Posted February 7, 2009 Share Posted February 7, 2009 Im pretty sure that they're counting all the buildings with a houston,tx adress .Downtown is just our most concentrated area of office buildings so that is used as the main picture. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dominax Posted April 14, 2009 Share Posted April 14, 2009 Agreed, I could go and snap a better shot than that by far in a few minutes... I guess you have to live here to know the good angles. I'm wondering how did they scale this? I'm thinking by a point factor... for example... every building 1,000 feet and taller got like 2 points, and everyone building 700-999 feet got 1 point? Possible. If that case is true, The Burj Dubai should have gotten like 3 points on that scale, being over 1,000 feet taller than the next tallest in the world. I'll say it before and I'll say it again on the height of the Burj Dubai... Holy Crap! Seasickness and vertigo for all! Wells Fargo Tower was pretty close of 992 feet. Still have 1 point Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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