@CnekYT
I'd say Anaheim being a suburb of Los Angeles rather than a metropolitan centre also plays a significant role in it's lackluster skyline
@a.j.santiago303
Orlando (city pop. ~315,000; metro pop. ~3,000,000) should be on here. Very unimpressive skyline, but as another Sun Belt location, it's par for the course. This place sprawls out like mad.
@brenthonn-r9w
anaheim is a huge suburb and should not included
@SulferDragon
The City of San Antonio has an ordinance that restricts the development of any building that would cast a shadow on The Alamo.
@stischer47
Thank goodness San Antonio's hasn't followed the trend of gigantic buildings that make downtowns look like every other downtown and much more inhuman. San Antonio's downtown is still walkable and human-scaled.
@chrisnorman9980
I believe Jacksonville city merged with its county in the late 1960s which accounts for its large land area and population
@stephenanderson1594
Thanks for including Colorado Springs. We are Olympic City USA looking like an Olympic village. Our downtown deserves a lot more especially larger sports venues and amusement in our area.
@JXY2019
Going by city population and not metro makes this pretty pointless
@MichaelWeaver-wo8qo
Well researched and informative work. Many thanks.
@MoneyC225
Anaheim is a suburb, so it shouldn't matter. Memphis, Indianapolis, & El Paso deserved one of those spots.
@muzluv33
I love the D.C. skyline and love visiting there. The lack of high rises in the city proper preserves the city's beauty and architecture and gives it a small town feeling that I don't easily find anywhere else. As the narrator said, the horizontal sprawl created smaller downtowns with tall buildings in areas like Rosslyn and Silver Spring. Georgetown and Alexandria are also architectural gems which I hope stays as they are - any high rises there would be a blight. And oh yes, the excellent Metro makes traveling around the area a breeze.
@6fig
Although San Jose is the largest of these three cities, San Francisco ,Oakland, San Jose. I always considered San Jose to be in the San Francisco Metropolitan area. I guess it’s more of a twin city or triplet city situation now.
@cameraman655
I recall when LA had a very underwhelming skyline back in the 70s, compared to San Francisco , Chicago, of course NYC, but even Houston at that timeline had a more impressive skyline. In the 80s, LA’s skyline exploded in growth, honestly, it’s not that bad, all things being equal.
@itzpro5951
the reason why a lot of these cities don't have an "impressive" is because they have, for most of their history, been smaller cities until after the 50s when they began to sprawl out, at that time urban density was not considered in their urban planning in favor of single family homes and strip malls, so these cities are more sprawled out since their growth came after the 50s. My hometown of Colorado Springs for example which is on this list, did not exceed a population of 100k until 1970, for most of it's history it was a town of 5 digits population, so skyscrapers were not considered for it's size and the cities growth is in it's suburbs.
@chriscosby2459
Memphis, Salt Lake, and Wichita should be listed.
@joememphis1571
I live in San Antonio and the skyline is way beyond underwhelming. It’s real boring.
@willrobinson4976
Good job, I just wished you had included the entire metro population as well. Or do another video on skylines compared to their metro populations.
@jessamineprice5803
Great topic! I’d argue the DC skyline is iconic, it just doesn’t have any big rectangular office buildings. The only things rising above the trees are the Capitol Dome and the cathedral. From some angles, the Washington Monument. Although the development pattern exists in large part because of White Flight—not great—it did give us a unique sense of place. Btw I just found your channel and I’m watching everything!
@weylandyutanicorporate
I'm marginally offended you didn't have Albuquerque on this list!
@marcbyrnes293