Atlanta is huge with many districts and neighborhoods that have a nice cluster of mid/high rise buildings. Downtown and midtown use to have a gap between them, but so much construction is happening in Midtown that the gap has filled in. At one point there was so much construction in midtown Atlanta, there was a building crane shortage. There is also Buckhead, North Perimeter Center/Sandy Springs, Cobb/Marietta, Coca-Cola campus, ATL airport, and a few more.
As a Chicago native I'm not surprised to see that Chicago is in the top 2....but it is always #1 to me! As the song says, "My kind of town, Chicago is!"
That little triangular park in Pittsburgh (Point State Park) actually has the footprint/remains of the original French and British forts that were erected there, which tells you that the confluence has always been roughly that shape, at least.
The space needle was built before the cn tower and the top rotates 360 once every 45 minutes. A couple years ago they put in glass floors so it’s the only rotating glass floored structure in the world
That view of Pittsburgh looking at the point of confluence of the 3 rivers is very similar looking to viewing Manhattan from the lower bay ,as on the Staten Island ferry
Growing up in Houston, I thought we had tall skyscrapers, and we do BUT then I visited New York and it is on a totally different level. It is absolutely AMAZING. My first visit was back in 2000, so the World Trade Center buildings were still there, absolutely impressive. Everything was just so tall, dense and amazing! Flying into the city and looking out the airplane window, I was in awe. 21 years old and my first time seeing what I've only seen on TV was quite special. I haven't been back since they've completed One World Trade Center, but I can't wait to visit NYC again!
Cincinnati is on the list! 😊I can’t believe how much the river front view has changed since I was a child. Some buildings have been torn down and new ones have gone up.
Cincinnati looks much classier than when I lived there back in the 70s. But there's still a lot of the beautiful old German style brickwork spread around downtown.
In Dallas that ball is actually a restaurant and it’s gorgeous at nighttime. it’s lit up kinda like the New York New Year’s Eve ball and has lights that come out of it that flash around the city. It’s a beautiful inside also
Ive got to say throughout watching all these reactions i really really appreciate G and Darrens knowledge and experience when it come to the US because theyre able to give Sophie and Aidan a better understanding of some things here and there or can sometimes answer their questions. It adds so much to the videos that other reaction channels simply just dont have and i love it. Keep up the videos :)
I live in the Dallas area, grew up here and I have never heard the ball called that. 😂 We, actual Dallas / DFW natives call it either “the ball” or it’s proper name, the Reunion Tower. There is a 5 star restaurant at the top where you can dine and see all of downtown. It’s incredible!
Chicago also goes underground with the pedway. I could get on the subway, exit underground, walk several blocks in the Pedway, enter my office building and never step outside until I exited the subway on the way home. I typically preferred to be outside, but in extreme weather, it was a nice option to have!
Yea you guys literally asked right after he said that Atlanta has separate downtowns much like PHX. Thats was the point of showing the picture he said If the clusters were together the downtown would look a lot bigger.
It's amazing to me, how these people do not hear what the person has just said. Maybe it's the accent. Gaynor even said that maybe " the other city is Augusta". Wow.
They're both Atlanta, however the skyscrapers in the foreground is called Buckhead, it's an area with condo's/apartments, shopping center and restaurants. There is a spaghetti junction in Atlanta GA. We live in the Las Vegas area, it's beautiful at night
Hi 👋🏽 from Dallas Tx. The building with the ball on top is called Reunion Tower, they do tours where you can go up and you have a 360 view of Dallas. There is also a restaurant in the tower and it rotates all the way around so you have the view constantly changing as it rotates. 16:41
Mark 23:59. Vancouver! Aha! So that's how they are able to pass it off as so many real cities elsewhere and as fictional cities too! It is the work site of so many television series and movies. In the "Arrowverse" cluster of shows on "The CW" series is set in a different city, but all are made there! 😎
For a long time Philadelphia prohibited the construction of any building taller than the statue of William Penn atop city hall. Thus the city's tallest buildings are modern in style.
Atlanta's skyline is spread out because the skyscrapers were built around alot of historic areas that weren't going to be torn down. Margaret Mitchell (author of gone with the wind) was born in Atlanta and her house was turned into museum. So if you're driving in midtown, you'll pass a bunch of sky scraper and then you happen upon a random 100 year house. Downtown also has 5 colleges, The Martin Luther King historic district and Coca Cola offices.
Hey guys, I'm a Houston native, yes Houston does have an under ground urban center, shops & restaurants, it continues to grow,, Houston also has a med center with tall buildings & Greenway area with more sky scrapers, it is an area of uptown shopping.😊
Atlanta has an underground shopping district as does Montreal. Cleveland has underground passages between government buildings most people don’t know about.
Houstonian here. I work in downtown. Yes, the Tunnels are, in fact, for pedestrians. And they are meant for the heat and heavy rain we receive. But there isn't much there. Just a few food chains, barber shops, dentist shops
Atlanta is by far my favorite skyline and I've been to LA, NYC, Miami, Dallas, etc. I think the reason is the opposite of what he said, he doesn't think it's nice because of the sprawl of how they're all gapped. Which to be fair they're filling all that in now a lot. It's just so unique. You can literally see a picture that makes it look small and then another that makes it look so large. Oh and btw. that "seperate city" is Buckhead, and it apart of Atlanta, it's kind of like Beverly Hills is to LA. It's a lot of rich condos and lots of rappers, rich people and celebs own condos there. It really does look like another city though, it's pretty big.
Love San Diego skyline really nice at night. The Atlanta was in the background Buckhead which is near by was the one closes to the view. Honolulu does have a great skyline day or night.
14:58 There will be a “Spaghetti Junction” in certain big cities in the US depending on how the city was being built in the 1900s. Cities with little train/subway transportation (like Houston and Atlanta) typically have them because traffic can be ghoulish lol.
I'll take Chicago because its Skyline is well balanced compared to New York City. As for Miami being ranked at #16 is an insult! It has the the most Skyscrapers in the US after NYC & Chicago.
Atlanta has the following cluster areas: Downtown, Midtown, Perimeter North, Cobb, and Perimeter South -- the beltway, which is over 60 miles around, used to encompass the city, but now the city has spread in all directions beyond it. Now there's Alpharetta and ATL airport clusters. Atlanta is also called the City of Trees, so many shorter buildings are hidden under large canopies of trees
Having lived in Manhattan for most of my life I can say that it didn't matter that it was twenty years I had been living there I still got goosebumps every time I drove home from work from Queens into Manhattan just looking at three skyline. As selfish as it seems, after 9/11, I remember feeling sad that it'd be changed so drastically. In fact after the first tower fell I thought how strange it'd look with just one tower.
I’m from City #12 16:10 and we don’t call that tower “gods microphone.” We call it the “Ball Tower.” It’s official name is the Reunion tower, and it is a part of a hotel, the Hyatt Regency Dallas. It’s an Observatory, and a restaurant.
the Ball in the Dallas Sky Line is called "Reunion Tower" there used to be an Arena next to it but it was torn down and replaced by another Venue called Airline Arena, it's where the Dallas Stars (Hockey) and Dallas Maverick (Basketball) play their home games
The Home Insurance Building, built in 1885 and located on the corner of Adams and LaSalle Streets in Chicago, Illinois, went down in history as the world’s first modern skyscraper. Designed by engineer William LeBaron Jenney, the building was supported by a revolutionary steel frame, which allowed for much greater height and stability without the greater weight of traditional masonry construction. The Home Insurance Building stood until 1931, when it was demolished to make way for another skyscraper, the Field Building (now known as the LaSalle Bank Building).
Mark 15:35. There's an old "WB" cartoon from the 1950s or 1960s. It showed us a "spaghetti junction"! 🍝 The camera showed us what looked like pasta with maybe ants crawling on it until the zoom-in reveals automobile traffic! 🚘
San Diego skyline at night is beautiful. Especially going across over the Coronado bridge. When I was a very young kid the teachers would occasionally take us out of class during the spring and summer, we would go to a big area of grass on the school grounds and we would lay on the grass and look at the huge puffy clouds and try to find interesting things we could see in the clouds, nice memories for a 7-9 year old.
@@coyotelong4349 As a native San Diegan, that's the last thing we need, imho. lol. I'm just not a fan of the overly crowded, dense skyscraper look that many people like. I think the current look suits the city very well. We don't need more people living downtown in high rise condos clogging the streets with more traffic than we already have. I would be happy to see no more building around Petco Park, the Gaslamp Quarter, Seaport Village, the Convention Center and Harbor Dr. If any new skyscrapers are built I would hope they would be built in the center of town in the business district since many people commute to downtown on public transportation and then leave at the end of the day. Myself, included. Wishful thinking. I'm sure. lol.
I live and work in Manhattan and get off the subway at Columbus Circle, I'm constantly amazed at the buildings on "Billionaires Row". There's one residential tower that's 472M high. But you're right about where they can build and they are tearing down a lot of older buildings for the new ones. They've also starting building up Queens and Brooklyn and along the Hudson river on the New Jersey side..;)
I live in Charleston, South Carolina which was established in 1670 (making it one of America's oldest cities, but still an infant by European standards). Because the historical skyline is so iconic and beautiful, affording most of the city views of Charleston Harbor, the Architectural Review Board has always limited buildings to being no taller than the tallest Church steeple. Thus the tallest building is only 18 stories, and even it is an anomaly.
The London Eye, aka a Ferris Wheel, was first introduced in Chicago during it’s 1893 World’s Fair by George Ferris. It was originally called the Chicago Wheel. So everyone has a Chicago Wheel, nowadays.
Actually, the DFW-Arlington metropolitan area aka the Metroplex, is the 4th largest metropolitan area in the US with a population of 7,759,615. Dallas has a network of tunnels beneath the downtown area as well. The "microphone" is the Reunion Tower, a part of the Dallas Hyatt Regency Hotel. It has a revolving restaurant along with an observation deck. It also has a lighting system that flashes around the ball and they can change the colors and designs to observe holidays such as Halloween, Thanksgiving and Christmas, special events such as Texas/OU weekend (a fabled college football rivalry that happens annually during the State Fair in Dallas), or if a local team goes into a championship series they will flash the team logo in tribute. It's goofy looking, but really cool! You have to see it in person to appreciate it.
Mark 28:36. By the way, Central Park is a city park. But anyway, long before he was a POTUS, but when he was still the host-judge of "The Apprentice" and "The Celebrity Apprentice" Donald Trump was a guest in one of Conan O'Brien's late night talk shows. Conan brought up an anecdote about how one day his apartment had a nice view. Then, seemingly overnight, he could open his window and reach out and touch a new building built by Trump! He wondered if that was revenge for the jokes! 😁
Thumb Up #798! 👍 You're welcome! Thanks! ☺️ Notes: Central Park has a castle in it, and if I recall correctly, that's where you can attend "Shakespeare in the Park" for free, weather permitting. 😀 (Well, nowadays, terrorism, mass shootings, and pandemics, too.) Famous actors and actresses like to appear there and do plays not just for fun but as practice for their profession. 😎
Atlanta’s Skyline is more spread out because of the historic venues like Martin Luther King’s home and the HBCU’s in the area. I believe the area in the background of the shot is Buckhead (which is like North Atlanta). This pictures looks a bit older because now there’s are a few more skyscrapers in place.
Mark 16:38. Two friends and I made the long road trip to "Six Flags Over Texas" and we arrived there while it was sunny but left while it was dark. So we got to see the Dallas Skyline. The "Dodge Microphone" did he call it? I don't think it was there yet. It was the early 1990s, if not the late 1980s. 🤔 We saw the ones outlined in green! We were reminded of "The Emerald City" and the movie "TRON"! 😎
Reunion Tower opened in 1978. However, it didn’t start really looking like the pictures they showed until the 1990’s from what I remember growing up there. All through the 80’s it was just white lights. Now it is super cool LED lights how that changes with seasons/sports events/ etc. Dallas has a very memorable skyline from all angles, but Reunion Tower is in the Southwest corner of downtown and that vantage point seems to be the one most photographers choose
Mark 8:34. Ladies, by the way! I love your new hairstyles! 😍 But anyway, I thought it was the "Baltimore Orioles" and the "Cincinnati Reds"? 🤔 I think that you might enjoy the sitcom, "WKRP In Cincinnati" that is set in a radio station. I love Loni Anderson as "Jennifer"! ❤
Mark 13:38. Hey, serendipity! Oklahoma City, Oklahoma County, Oklahoma, also has an underground system for pedestrians! You can even go shopping in it. Maybe even dining! At one part, I entered it because while Dad was being examined by medical people, I went looking for the cafeteria, but I found one of the underground corridors instead. It is not all gray and dingy like he seems to be thinking. It was shades of beige and tan, well lit, carpeted, and it had good air flow. I stopped somewhere in the middle when I saw how the other end was and that it was just as far away as where I had entered. The gentle slopes cause visual confusion. So I didn't appease my curiosity then. By the time I made it back, they were done with him, so no cafeteria visit for me. (I enjoy comparing cafeterias to each other.) One time, Dad was shopping for work supplies. We parked inside a big building made for parking in. We used street crosswalks, but we also used enclosed bridges that connect some buildings, elevators, and underground passages. The bridges are like hallways with windows. The passages look like very long hallways without windows unless they are office or shop windows. 😎
Last time I was in Vegas it was 107 by noon. Walking down the strip you’d just have this strong hot and dry wind blasting untouched in the face. Felt like sticking your head out of the car window while going down the freeway.
Yes….Atlanta basically has two clusters of skylines…..the downtown/ midtown large stretched out MAIN skyline-look at the posters for Walking Dead…..the shot of all the cars trying to leave the city next to the empty interstate with only Rick Grimes on a horse approaching the city, that’s Midtown/ Downtown area-while Buckhead is the secondary skyline just north of downtown…..
Mark 26:18. At the lower right corner are their famous aquariums! 😎 By the way, when you play the PC game "Sim City" you can impress your citizens when you "relocate" a landmark building such as the aquariums from Chicago to your city! Even more so if it is from another nation like China, when you place their "Bank of China" skyscraper in your city. I usually make it a neighbor to the "Bank of America Building"! 🇺🇸
10:20 the narrator literally just explained there is downtown atlanta and just a few miles away is midtown atlanta forming a second cluster of high rises🤦♂
Yes, Houston has a massive underground tunnel system filled with shops and restaurants. It's to escape the heat and they are quite nice. Minneapolis has a similar system, but it's sky bridges from building to building and the second floor of every building has shops and restaurants. It's to escape the extreme cold. Lol
Mark 13:11. I think that there might be a video game series called "Need For Speed"? 🤔 (Thanks "Top Gun"!) Whatever the title is, it is a race game. My brother has it. I may have had it. 🤔 Well, anyway, Houston is one of the grand prix race courses. One day, some years ago, my father and I helped a friend move back to her parents. The route we used took us through one of the downtown areas. She pointed out how it is so big that it has two downtowns! But what I noticed, that they did not, as they don't play video games, was how many other drivers did! 🙄 I even saw a motorcyclist recreating moves from the game to get through the traffic! It was eerie! But now I know why the city was included in the game! 😎 By the way. My brother once had a car that was used in the game. I got to drive it. So, I was able to compare the real car to the game car. It was a sporty, compact car. Sadly, I never got to drive one of his "Ford Mustang" cars. He didn't have them at the same time! 😐
There are in fact air condition tunnels in the business district of downtown Houston so that the suits can travel around on foot and temperature controlled areas that have stores and restaurants. I think there are over a mile of pedestrian paths in the city all connected together. Montreal has similar underground areas to keep out of the cold. Minneapolis has pedestrian sky bridges enclosed to connect buildings one to another as well as some other cities in the Midwest cold winter zone.
Downtown Atlanta has the pedestrian sky bridges too. Some connect the hotels to each other, but most are for offices. There are 2 mid rise buildings on Ted Turner Dr. next to the tall rounded Westin tower that have at least 7 sky bridges crossing over 1 street block.
The Space Needle in Seattle was built in 1962 for the World's Fair. It was the first of the tower-type structures in the world but now has been surpassed by all the others in heighth.The observation deck is glass-floored and makes 1-360 degree rotation every hour. spectacular views.
That's all Atlanta, Houston is like that too. Houston has Downtown, the Galleria area and the Energy corridor all with large buildings. And Houston and Atlanta both have tunnels under Downtown with shops, restaurants and clubs. A whole nightlife underground.
I still think that the Philadelphia skyline is the best. Whether you are in Jersey, overlooking the Delaware River, or on a bridge overlooking the Schuylkill River, the Philly skyline can't be beaten. One Liberty Place, designed to resemble the Chrysler building but in modern blue glass, is one of the prettiest buildings in the world.
Mark 20:44 A couple from Las Vegas, Nevada, as opposed to Las Vegas, New Mexico, in "The Amazing Race" were amazed to see old European landmark buildings and lamented that in Las Vegas, they don't give buildings a chance to last so long because they always tear them down to make new ones! Though to be fair, in the past, they demolished boxy buildings or pre-code buildings that were built fast and cheap from the days of the Old West or the Gangster Era. Of course, something must have been affected by the nearby atomic bomb tests rattling buildings! But now they have very interesting and expensive buildings worth keeping around for some time! Now, what he didn't mention is the legal status of what they call the geographical area known as "The Las Vegas Strip" as opposed to the dance or the beverage or the game or the movie, should those exist. The jurisdiction is different there. Something about how Prostitution is legal in certain sections but not others, gambling, and so on and so forth. Something about making it more family-friendly so that children and parents feel welcome. That's why it looks more like an amusement park. Atlantic City, New Jersey, had the amusement parks to begin with, but also eventually included gambling or gaming casinos. So they are rivals for the same tourists. At least, that's what I recall from "CSI". 🤔 Atlantic City and Atlanta have been mistaken for each other because of their similar names. Tourists have gotten confused when they requested tickets to the wrong city and, upon arrival, wonder why they don't see what they expected to see! 😁
The Bow River flows through Calgary. It is glacier fed and drops about 4,000 feet over 350 miles. This results in a fast flow and there are several river rafting businesses that operate along the Bow (I rafted on the Bow River out of Kananaskis in 1983 - the water is freezing even in July). It is unlikely that a boat just went by since the river is not deep. Most places it is shallow enough to stand, but the speed of the water flow makes it very difficult.
Regarding Atlanta, the 3 clusters that are all part of the city are Downtown, Buckhead, Midtown and to a smaller extent Cumberland where the new Braves stadium is.
Houston's tunnel system connect all the downtown skyscrapers, and is strictly for pedestrians. The system has stores, restaurants, food courts, banks and a good many of the kinds of businesses that you find in most shopping malls.
I think a lot of cities were first established on rivers, because before railroads, that's how goods were transported. West of the Mississippi river you see less cities on rivers because when more people started moving west is when the railroad was built.
Mark 20:44. There's a Nicolas Cage movie that had good timing when it was being made! There was a building scheduled to be demolished anyway. The city gave the movie makers permission to wreck an airplane into it! It was before 9/11, so the idea didn't scare anybody. Visually, though, demolition implosions look very different from explosions! 🙄
Mark 5:38. Howdy! 🤠 Does he mean in a penthouse or on the roof with a better view of the stars and clouds, as he gazes up at them from his sleeping bag? 🤔
San Diego can't have super tall buildings because the airport is in the middle of the city. Seattle's skyline is gorgeous! Especially when you see it coming across the water on the ferry. The pictures/angles he chose do not represent the skyline properly. Seeing it from the water is how it should be shown. I'd put it much higher on this list. Full disclosure, that's where I live so of course I'm biased.
Seattle should be nearer the top for several reasons. It has a "natural" skyline, meaning you actually see the skyline from various places around town, without having to go search for a good angle. Mount Rainier actually asserts itself on the horizon, as opposed to the forced perspective lens trick for something like LA. Seattle is also nestled amidst hills, which creates actual dimension and character for the city. And then all the incidentals like clouds and rich greens. I would put it number one easily.
To answer your question, yes the sky is really that blue a lot of the time in San Diego. I currently live in Huntington Beach (outside LA) and the weather here is really hard to beat, 50's in the winter and usually not more than mid 80's in the summer. It can go days or months without rain also, which is really starting to concern me in our regards to move to Wales. If it rains a couple days in a row here we can get real cranky.
Mark 29:56. PS! I had a married couple who were friends and co-workers back in the 1990s. She had moved here from Compton, California. I guess she liked her family well enough to visit them? 🤷 I've never figured out how they could afford to visit Las Vegas, Nevada, just for the sake of it. So visiting her family left behind is my guess. But anyway, they were impressed with what they saw while there! The subject came up because of the news reports about the big flood the city had! 😳 We wondered if they would raze it all and start all over. Apparently, reporters exaggerated during speculation, as it was all cleaned up very well and back in operation once the flood waters receded. In New Orleans, the "Superdome" was cleaned and repaired rather than razed. I guess some people don't know that just because someone else defecated where toilets don't exist doesn't mean that the place is cursed and must be condemned and destroyed!
After World War II, the USA government focused building suburbs and highways so that families could own cars and live in a house far from the busy downtown areas. That was the new "American Dream". Nowadays, Americans are growing tired of traffic and having to drive everywhere for basic needs because there is extremely poor public transportation infrastructure. They want to return to the European lifestyle of living close to work, close to supermarkets, close to restaurants, easy access to public transportation, and less dependency on cars. ...By the way, the Miami skyline is absolutely beautiful and tropical.
The picture of Calgary AB you guys were wondering why the shoreline of the river looked like rapids.. That was ice! Canada gets cold alot of our rivers and sometimes even our lakes freeze over during winter months.
For the most interesting new building in New York look up The Vessel in Hudson Yards. Some people hate it but it's an extraodinary looking structure. Unfortunately it has been closed repeatedly because multiple people have gone there to to leap to their death.
Seattle is considered the cleanest large city in the country because it rains there like I think 180 days out of the year so it just literally watches all the dirt away. So Saint clouds shouldn’t be a surprise.
Atlanta is huge with many districts and neighborhoods that have a nice cluster of mid/high rise buildings. Downtown and midtown use to have a gap between them, but so much construction is happening in Midtown that the gap has filled in. At one point there was so much construction in midtown Atlanta, there was a building crane shortage. There is also Buckhead, North Perimeter Center/Sandy Springs, Cobb/Marietta, Coca-Cola campus, ATL airport, and a few more.
As a Chicago native I'm not surprised to see that Chicago is in the top 2....but it is always #1 to me! As the song says, "My kind of town, Chicago is!"
I like NY but I've always liked Chicago's skyline more.
This isn’t an official list , just one guy’s opinion, horrible list of u ask me.
@@LakerDodgerRamKingLA Noone asked you
That little triangular park in Pittsburgh (Point State Park) actually has the footprint/remains of the original French and British forts that were erected there, which tells you that the confluence has always been roughly that shape, at least.
my favorite city 😌😍
The burgh..... will always be home to me
The space needle was built before the cn tower and the top rotates 360 once every 45 minutes. A couple years ago they put in glass floors so it’s the only rotating glass floored structure in the world
As a Charlotte NC resident, happy to see it on the list. 👍🏾
That view of Pittsburgh looking at the point of confluence of the 3 rivers is very similar looking to viewing Manhattan from the lower bay ,as on the Staten Island ferry
Growing up in Houston, I thought we had tall skyscrapers, and we do BUT then I visited New York and it is on a totally different level. It is absolutely AMAZING. My first visit was back in 2000, so the World Trade Center buildings were still there, absolutely impressive. Everything was just so tall, dense and amazing! Flying into the city and looking out the airplane window, I was in awe. 21 years old and my first time seeing what I've only seen on TV was quite special. I haven't been back since they've completed One World Trade Center, but I can't wait to visit NYC again!
Houston skyline is still so beautiful
Cincinnati is on the list! 😊I can’t believe how much the river front view has changed since I was a child. Some buildings have been torn down and new ones have gone up.
Cincinnati looks much classier than when I lived there back in the 70s. But there's still a lot of the beautiful old German style brickwork spread around downtown.
In Dallas that ball is actually a restaurant and it’s gorgeous at nighttime. it’s lit up kinda like the New York New Year’s Eve ball and has lights that come out of it that flash around the city. It’s a beautiful inside also
Ive got to say throughout watching all these reactions i really really appreciate G and Darrens knowledge and experience when it come to the US because theyre able to give Sophie and Aidan a better understanding of some things here and there or can sometimes answer their questions. It adds so much to the videos that other reaction channels simply just dont have and i love it. Keep up the videos :)
It’s just one person’s opinion, that’s all it is , I personally think his list is trash!😂
I live in the Dallas area, grew up here and I have never heard the ball called that. 😂 We, actual Dallas / DFW natives call it either “the ball” or it’s proper name, the Reunion Tower. There is a 5 star restaurant at the top where you can dine and see all of downtown. It’s incredible!
Lived in FTW for a very long time and I’ve never heard Reunion Tower called that either!
Chicago also goes underground with the pedway. I could get on the subway, exit underground, walk several blocks in the Pedway, enter my office building and never step outside until I exited the subway on the way home. I typically preferred to be outside, but in extreme weather, it was a nice option to have!
Yea you guys literally asked right after he said that Atlanta has separate downtowns much like PHX. Thats was the point of showing the picture he said If the clusters were together the downtown would look a lot bigger.
It's amazing to me, how these people do not hear what the person has just said. Maybe it's the accent. Gaynor even said that maybe " the other city is Augusta". Wow.
They're both Atlanta, however the skyscrapers in the foreground is called Buckhead, it's an area with condo's/apartments, shopping center and restaurants. There is a spaghetti junction in Atlanta GA. We live in the Las Vegas area, it's beautiful at night
Hi 👋🏽 from Dallas Tx. The building with the ball on top is called Reunion Tower, they do tours where you can go up and you have a 360 view of Dallas. There is also a restaurant in the tower and it rotates all the way around so you have the view constantly changing as it rotates. 16:41
Was stationed in San Diego when was is US Navy for boot camp and Medic school in 1989.
Mark 23:59. Vancouver! Aha! So that's how they are able to pass it off as so many real cities elsewhere and as fictional cities too! It is the work site of so many television series and movies. In the "Arrowverse" cluster of shows on "The CW" series is set in a different city, but all are made there! 😎
For a long time Philadelphia prohibited the construction of any building taller than the statue of William Penn atop city hall. Thus the city's tallest buildings are modern in style.
Atlanta's skyline is spread out because the skyscrapers were built around alot of historic areas that weren't going to be torn down. Margaret Mitchell (author of gone with the wind) was born in Atlanta and her house was turned into museum. So if you're driving in midtown, you'll pass a bunch of sky scraper and then you happen upon a random 100 year house. Downtown also has 5 colleges, The Martin Luther King historic district and Coca Cola offices.
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There are three areas of metro Atlanta with skyscrapers. There is Atlanta "proper", Midtown, and Buckhead. Each area has a cluster of skyscrapers!
23:48 talking about VANCOUVER and saying one of the 22nd biggest metro areas in the United States 😅🤣😆😂
Hey guys, I'm a Houston native, yes Houston does have an under ground urban center, shops & restaurants, it continues to grow,, Houston also has a med center with tall buildings & Greenway area with more sky scrapers, it is an area of uptown shopping.😊
Atlanta has an underground shopping district as does Montreal. Cleveland has underground passages between government buildings most people don’t know about.
Montreal is bigger I think and frquentky used by millions in a hundreds of thousand a week
Cincinnati Reds!!! And yes that’s all of Atlanta.
Houstonian here. I work in downtown. Yes, the Tunnels are, in fact, for pedestrians. And they are meant for the heat and heavy rain we receive. But there isn't much there. Just a few food chains, barber shops, dentist shops
That was Great American Ballpark in Cincinnati where the Reds play.
Atlanta is by far my favorite skyline and I've been to LA, NYC, Miami, Dallas, etc. I think the reason is the opposite of what he said, he doesn't think it's nice because of the sprawl of how they're all gapped. Which to be fair they're filling all that in now a lot. It's just so unique. You can literally see a picture that makes it look small and then another that makes it look so large.
Oh and btw. that "seperate city" is Buckhead, and it apart of Atlanta, it's kind of like Beverly Hills is to LA. It's a lot of rich condos and lots of rappers, rich people and celebs own condos there. It really does look like another city though, it's pretty big.
I'm guess I'm a celeb!
Love San Diego skyline really nice at night. The Atlanta was in the background Buckhead which is near by was the one closes to the view. Honolulu does have a great skyline day or night.
The baseball team in Cincinnati are the Reds.
The Orioles is Baltimore 😂
I'm just impressed she named one MLB mascot.
14:58 There will be a “Spaghetti Junction” in certain big cities in the US depending on how the city was being built in the 1900s.
Cities with little train/subway transportation (like Houston and Atlanta) typically have them because traffic can be ghoulish lol.
Atlanta has a subway system for around 50 years now
Chicago’s skyline looks amazing definitely top 3 for me along with New York and Miami
I'll take Chicago because its Skyline is well balanced compared to New York City. As for Miami being ranked at #16 is an insult! It has the the most Skyscrapers in the US after NYC & Chicago.
I love the Miami skyline. It has the Miami tropical magic.
I lived in San Diego for almost 30 years. The sky is that blue on a clear day and hotter than hell in the summertime.
Atlanta has the following cluster areas: Downtown, Midtown, Perimeter North, Cobb, and Perimeter South -- the beltway, which is over 60 miles around, used to encompass the city, but now the city has spread in all directions beyond it. Now there's Alpharetta and ATL airport clusters. Atlanta is also called the City of Trees, so many shorter buildings are hidden under large canopies of trees
Having lived in Manhattan for most of my life I can say that it didn't matter that it was twenty years I had been living there I still got goosebumps every time I drove home from work from Queens into Manhattan just looking at three skyline. As selfish as it seems, after 9/11, I remember feeling sad that it'd be changed so drastically. In fact after the first tower fell I thought how strange it'd look with just one tower.
I’m from City #12 16:10 and we don’t call that tower “gods microphone.” We call it the “Ball Tower.” It’s official name is the Reunion tower, and it is a part of a hotel, the Hyatt Regency Dallas. It’s an Observatory, and a restaurant.
the Ball in the Dallas Sky Line is called "Reunion Tower" there used to be an Arena next to it but it was torn down and replaced by another Venue called Airline Arena, it's where the Dallas Stars (Hockey) and Dallas Maverick (Basketball) play their home games
The Home Insurance Building, built in 1885 and located on the corner of Adams and LaSalle Streets in Chicago, Illinois, went down in history as the world’s first modern skyscraper. Designed by engineer William LeBaron Jenney, the building was supported by a revolutionary steel frame, which allowed for much greater height and stability without the greater weight of traditional masonry construction. The Home Insurance Building stood until 1931, when it was demolished to make way for another skyscraper, the Field Building (now known as the LaSalle Bank Building).
Mark 15:35. There's an old "WB" cartoon from the 1950s or 1960s. It showed us a "spaghetti junction"! 🍝 The camera showed us what looked like pasta with maybe ants crawling on it until the zoom-in reveals automobile traffic! 🚘
There are some underground tunnels in downtown Houston, they’re for pedestrians. They connect a few buildings together and even have some small shops.
San Diego skyline at night is beautiful. Especially going across over the Coronado bridge. When I was a very young kid the teachers would occasionally take us out of class during the spring and summer, we would go to a big area of grass on the school grounds and we would lay on the grass and look at the huge puffy clouds and try to find interesting things we could see in the clouds, nice memories for a 7-9 year old.
San Diego does have a nice skyline but I wish it looked more like Miami’s skyline. Need more high rise condos
@@coyotelong4349 As a native San Diegan, that's the last thing we need, imho. lol. I'm just not a fan of the overly crowded, dense skyscraper look that many people like. I think the current look suits the city very well.
We don't need more people living downtown in high rise condos clogging the streets with more traffic than we already have. I would be happy to see no more building around Petco Park, the Gaslamp Quarter, Seaport Village, the Convention Center and Harbor Dr.
If any new skyscrapers are built I would hope they would be built in the center of town in the business district since many people commute to downtown on public transportation and then leave at the end of the day. Myself, included. Wishful thinking. I'm sure. lol.
I live and work in Manhattan and get off the subway at Columbus Circle, I'm constantly amazed at the buildings on "Billionaires Row". There's one residential tower that's 472M high. But you're right about where they can build and they are tearing down a lot of older buildings for the new ones. They've also starting building up Queens and Brooklyn and along the Hudson river on the New Jersey side..;)
I live in Charleston, South Carolina which was established in 1670 (making it one of America's oldest cities, but still an infant by European standards). Because the historical skyline is so iconic and beautiful, affording most of the city views of Charleston Harbor, the Architectural Review Board has always limited buildings to being no taller than the tallest Church steeple. Thus the tallest building is only 18 stories, and even it is an anomaly.
The London Eye, aka a Ferris Wheel, was first introduced in Chicago during it’s 1893 World’s Fair by George Ferris.
It was originally called the Chicago Wheel.
So everyone has a Chicago Wheel, nowadays.
I lived in Minneapolis for 9 years. Whether living downtown or in any of it's suburbs, it's a great place to live.
Speaking of Houston's underground, Here in Dallas we have an underground area too. There are shops and other amenities there.
Yes Houston has underground walkways. I have never been but I've seen them online.
Atlanta is doing A LOT of building, don't know why he just skipped that part.🤷🏾♀️
Old video, I saw this video about 5 years ago
Atlanta is huge.
Yeah, over 6 and a half million. This video is a little old, Kyle was off by a million
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Thank you so much 😮
Actually, the DFW-Arlington metropolitan area aka the Metroplex, is the 4th largest metropolitan area in the US with a population of 7,759,615. Dallas has a network of tunnels beneath the downtown area as well. The "microphone" is the Reunion Tower, a part of the Dallas Hyatt Regency Hotel. It has a revolving restaurant along with an observation deck. It also has a lighting system that flashes around the ball and they can change the colors and designs to observe holidays such as Halloween, Thanksgiving and Christmas, special events such as Texas/OU weekend (a fabled college football rivalry that happens annually during the State Fair in Dallas), or if a local team goes into a championship series they will flash the team logo in tribute. It's goofy looking, but really cool! You have to see it in person to appreciate it.
But that’s actually three cities and not just one like Houston.
@@williamlucas4656TWO cities... Arlington is just a big suburb.
Mark 28:36. By the way, Central Park is a city park. But anyway, long before he was a POTUS, but when he was still the host-judge of "The Apprentice" and "The Celebrity Apprentice" Donald Trump was a guest in one of Conan O'Brien's late night talk shows. Conan brought up an anecdote about how one day his apartment had a nice view. Then, seemingly overnight, he could open his window and reach out and touch a new building built by Trump! He wondered if that was revenge for the jokes! 😁
Dallas, San Antonio, and Houston have underground tunnels, and yes it is for the heat.
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Notes: Central Park has a castle in it, and if I recall correctly, that's where you can attend "Shakespeare in the Park" for free, weather permitting. 😀 (Well, nowadays, terrorism, mass shootings, and pandemics, too.) Famous actors and actresses like to appear there and do plays not just for fun but as practice for their profession. 😎
Atlanta’s Skyline is more spread out because of the historic venues like Martin Luther King’s home and the HBCU’s in the area. I believe the area in the background of the shot is Buckhead (which is like North Atlanta). This pictures looks a bit older because now there’s are a few more skyscrapers in place.
Mark 16:38. Two friends and I made the long road trip to "Six Flags Over Texas" and we arrived there while it was sunny but left while it was dark. So we got to see the Dallas Skyline. The "Dodge Microphone" did he call it? I don't think it was there yet. It was the early 1990s, if not the late 1980s. 🤔 We saw the ones outlined in green! We were reminded of "The Emerald City" and the movie "TRON"! 😎
Reunion Tower opened in 1978. However, it didn’t start really looking like the pictures they showed until the 1990’s from what I remember growing up there. All through the 80’s it was just white lights. Now it is super cool LED lights how that changes with seasons/sports events/ etc. Dallas has a very memorable skyline from all angles, but Reunion Tower is in the Southwest corner of downtown and that vantage point seems to be the one most photographers choose
Mark 8:34. Ladies, by the way! I love your new hairstyles! 😍 But anyway, I thought it was the "Baltimore Orioles" and the "Cincinnati Reds"? 🤔
I think that you might enjoy the sitcom, "WKRP In Cincinnati" that is set in a radio station. I love Loni Anderson as "Jennifer"! ❤
Mark 13:38. Hey, serendipity! Oklahoma City, Oklahoma County, Oklahoma, also has an underground system for pedestrians! You can even go shopping in it. Maybe even dining! At one part, I entered it because while Dad was being examined by medical people, I went looking for the cafeteria, but I found one of the underground corridors instead. It is not all gray and dingy like he seems to be thinking. It was shades of beige and tan, well lit, carpeted, and it had good air flow. I stopped somewhere in the middle when I saw how the other end was and that it was just as far away as where I had entered. The gentle slopes cause visual confusion. So I didn't appease my curiosity then. By the time I made it back, they were done with him, so no cafeteria visit for me. (I enjoy comparing cafeterias to each other.)
One time, Dad was shopping for work supplies. We parked inside a big building made for parking in. We used street crosswalks, but we also used enclosed bridges that connect some buildings, elevators, and underground passages. The bridges are like hallways with windows. The passages look like very long hallways without windows unless they are office or shop windows. 😎
Last time I was in Vegas it was 107 by noon. Walking down the strip you’d just have this strong hot and dry wind blasting untouched in the face. Felt like sticking your head out of the car window while going down the freeway.
Yes….Atlanta basically has two clusters of skylines…..the downtown/ midtown large stretched out MAIN skyline-look at the posters for Walking Dead…..the shot of all the cars trying to leave the city next to the empty interstate with only Rick Grimes on a horse approaching the city, that’s Midtown/ Downtown area-while Buckhead is the secondary skyline just north of downtown…..
Mark 26:18. At the lower right corner are their famous aquariums! 😎 By the way, when you play the PC game "Sim City" you can impress your citizens when you "relocate" a landmark building such as the aquariums from Chicago to your city! Even more so if it is from another nation like China, when you place their "Bank of China" skyscraper in your city. I usually make it a neighbor to the "Bank of America Building"! 🇺🇸
10:20 the narrator literally just explained there is downtown atlanta and just a few miles away is midtown atlanta forming a second cluster of high rises🤦♂
I was thinking the same.
Not just this video but most. The narrator says something, and they act as though they never heard it . Weird
Yes, Houston has a massive underground tunnel system filled with shops and restaurants. It's to escape the heat and they are quite nice. Minneapolis has a similar system, but it's sky bridges from building to building and the second floor of every building has shops and restaurants. It's to escape the extreme cold. Lol
Hey - great hairdo G!
That's the just got out bed spaghetti hairdo. Ironically they mentioned spaghetti in the video 😂
Mark 13:11. I think that there might be a video game series called "Need For Speed"? 🤔 (Thanks "Top Gun"!) Whatever the title is, it is a race game. My brother has it. I may have had it. 🤔
Well, anyway, Houston is one of the grand prix race courses. One day, some years ago, my father and I helped a friend move back to her parents. The route we used took us through one of the downtown areas. She pointed out how it is so big that it has two downtowns!
But what I noticed, that they did not, as they don't play video games, was how many other drivers did! 🙄 I even saw a motorcyclist recreating moves from the game to get through the traffic! It was eerie! But now I know why the city was included in the game! 😎
By the way. My brother once had a car that was used in the game. I got to drive it. So, I was able to compare the real car to the game car. It was a sporty, compact car. Sadly, I never got to drive one of his "Ford Mustang" cars. He didn't have them at the same time! 😐
There are in fact air condition tunnels in the business district of downtown Houston so that the suits can travel around on foot and temperature controlled areas that have stores and restaurants. I think there are over a mile of pedestrian paths in the city all connected together. Montreal has similar underground areas to keep out of the cold. Minneapolis has pedestrian sky bridges enclosed to connect buildings one to another as well as some other cities in the Midwest cold winter zone.
Downtown Atlanta has the pedestrian sky bridges too. Some connect the hotels to each other, but most are for offices. There are 2 mid rise buildings on Ted Turner Dr. next to the tall rounded Westin tower that have at least 7 sky bridges crossing over 1 street block.
8:15 looks like the Great American Ball Park, home of the Cincinnati Reds
The Space Needle in Seattle was built in 1962 for the World's Fair. It was the first of the tower-type structures in the world but now has been surpassed by all the others in heighth.The observation deck is glass-floored and makes 1-360 degree rotation every hour. spectacular views.
almost every major city in Canada has a river running through it. you are seeing "ice' on the river running through Calgary :)
That's all Atlanta, Houston is like that too. Houston has Downtown, the Galleria area and the Energy corridor all with large buildings. And Houston and Atlanta both have tunnels under Downtown with shops, restaurants and clubs. A whole nightlife underground.
The metroplex in Dallas refers to the Dallas fort worth area .....both cities are close to each other in proximity
Close by Texas standards, lol
I still think that the Philadelphia skyline is the best. Whether you are in Jersey, overlooking the Delaware River, or on a bridge overlooking the Schuylkill River, the Philly skyline can't be beaten. One Liberty Place, designed to resemble the Chrysler building but in modern blue glass, is one of the prettiest buildings in the world.
Just came from there, the other building that matches One liberty place makes it fit in.
@Luka DonéSnitčh Two Liberty Place! Along with the Camcast buildings, they add a nice modern touch to the older stone buildings.
Mark 20:44 A couple from Las Vegas, Nevada, as opposed to Las Vegas, New Mexico, in "The Amazing Race" were amazed to see old European landmark buildings and lamented that in Las Vegas, they don't give buildings a chance to last so long because they always tear them down to make new ones!
Though to be fair, in the past, they demolished boxy buildings or pre-code buildings that were built fast and cheap from the days of the Old West or the Gangster Era. Of course, something must have been affected by the nearby atomic bomb tests rattling buildings!
But now they have very interesting and expensive buildings worth keeping around for some time! Now, what he didn't mention is the legal status of what they call the geographical area known as "The Las Vegas Strip" as opposed to the dance or the beverage or the game or the movie, should those exist. The jurisdiction is different there. Something about how Prostitution is legal in certain sections but not others, gambling, and so on and so forth. Something about making it more family-friendly so that children and parents feel welcome. That's why it looks more like an amusement park. Atlantic City, New Jersey, had the amusement parks to begin with, but also eventually included gambling or gaming casinos. So they are rivals for the same tourists. At least, that's what I recall from "CSI". 🤔
Atlantic City and Atlanta have been mistaken for each other because of their similar names. Tourists have gotten confused when they requested tickets to the wrong city and, upon arrival, wonder why they don't see what they expected to see! 😁
The Bow River flows through Calgary. It is glacier fed and drops about 4,000 feet over 350 miles. This results in a fast flow and there are several river rafting businesses that operate along the Bow (I rafted on the Bow River out of Kananaskis in 1983 - the water is freezing even in July). It is unlikely that a boat just went by since the river is not deep. Most places it is shallow enough to stand, but the speed of the water flow makes it very difficult.
I would put Pittsburgh above Toronto.
Houston tunnels was for the heat. I worked downtown for years, and never went up to the surface streets.
Regarding Atlanta, the 3 clusters that are all part of the city are Downtown, Buckhead, Midtown and to a smaller extent Cumberland where the new Braves stadium is.
My city is the thumbnail! Dallas Texas represent
Kyle always does a great job with his videos.
Nice reaction family.
I'm from Atlanta, Georgia at 10:27 in the video is Buckhead and in the back is Atlanta.
Your question about Calgary and the river - that's ice on the river. It's cold up there!!
Houston's tunnel system connect all the downtown skyscrapers, and is strictly for pedestrians. The system has stores, restaurants, food courts, banks and a good many of the kinds of businesses that you find in most shopping malls.
I think a lot of cities were first established on rivers, because before railroads, that's how goods were transported. West of the Mississippi river you see less cities on rivers because when more people started moving west is when the railroad was built.
San Diegos buildings are limited to 500 feet due to the airport being just outside the city.
Mark 20:44. There's a Nicolas Cage movie that had good timing when it was being made! There was a building scheduled to be demolished anyway. The city gave the movie makers permission to wreck an airplane into it! It was before 9/11, so the idea didn't scare anybody. Visually, though, demolition implosions look very different from explosions! 🙄
Mark 5:38. Howdy! 🤠 Does he mean in a penthouse or on the roof with a better view of the stars and clouds, as he gazes up at them from his sleeping bag? 🤔
San Diego can't have super tall buildings because the airport is in the middle of the city. Seattle's skyline is gorgeous! Especially when you see it coming across the water on the ferry. The pictures/angles he chose do not represent the skyline properly. Seeing it from the water is how it should be shown. I'd put it much higher on this list. Full disclosure, that's where I live so of course I'm biased.
Seattle should be nearer the top for several reasons. It has a "natural" skyline, meaning you actually see the skyline from various places around town, without having to go search for a good angle. Mount Rainier actually asserts itself on the horizon, as opposed to the forced perspective lens trick for something like LA. Seattle is also nestled amidst hills, which creates actual dimension and character for the city. And then all the incidentals like clouds and rich greens. I would put it number one easily.
Driving across the bridge to the small island where we live just off the south shore of Long Island there is a great view of the Manhattan skyline
To answer your question, yes the sky is really that blue a lot of the time in San Diego. I currently live in Huntington Beach (outside LA) and the weather here is really hard to beat, 50's in the winter and usually not more than mid 80's in the summer. It can go days or months without rain also, which is really starting to concern me in our regards to move to Wales. If it rains a couple days in a row here we can get real cranky.
Atlanta has 4 different clusters of high rise buildings, that are bigger than a lot of cities skylines
Also, the reason for the clusters is, there are neighborhoods in between the clusters.
Mark 29:56. PS! I had a married couple who were friends and co-workers back in the 1990s. She had moved here from Compton, California. I guess she liked her family well enough to visit them? 🤷
I've never figured out how they could afford to visit Las Vegas, Nevada, just for the sake of it. So visiting her family left behind is my guess.
But anyway, they were impressed with what they saw while there! The subject came up because of the news reports about the big flood the city had! 😳 We wondered if they would raze it all and start all over. Apparently, reporters exaggerated during speculation, as it was all cleaned up very well and back in operation once the flood waters receded. In New Orleans, the "Superdome" was cleaned and repaired rather than razed. I guess some people don't know that just because someone else defecated where toilets don't exist doesn't mean that the place is cursed and must be condemned and destroyed!
Nice to see you found Kyle, he got some good videos.
After World War II, the USA government focused building suburbs and highways so that families could own cars and live in a house far from the busy downtown areas. That was the new "American Dream". Nowadays, Americans are growing tired of traffic and having to drive everywhere for basic needs because there is extremely poor public transportation infrastructure. They want to return to the European lifestyle of living close to work, close to supermarkets, close to restaurants, easy access to public transportation, and less dependency on cars.
...By the way, the Miami skyline is absolutely beautiful and tropical.
I agree with you about Miami and it is currently building its first Supertall with the 100 story Waldorf- Astoria tower downtown.
The guy is literally talking about having two downtown's in Atlanta while you're looking it up. lmao
The picture of Calgary AB you guys were wondering why the shoreline of the river looked like rapids.. That was ice! Canada gets cold alot of our rivers and sometimes even our lakes freeze over during winter months.
1. Chicago
2. New York
3. Everyone else
For the most interesting new building in New York look up The Vessel in Hudson Yards. Some people hate it but it's an extraodinary looking structure. Unfortunately it has been closed repeatedly because multiple people have gone there to to leap to their death.
We visited there last year. Also went up to The Edge. 👍🏻
@@officeblokedaz Ahh, I probably heard you mention that on the main channel and forgot.
Seattle is considered the cleanest large city in the country because it rains there like I think 180 days out of the year so it just literally watches all the dirt away. So Saint clouds shouldn’t be a surprise.
Does it wash away those tent cities ?
@@shawnanderson6313 Eh, better than it does in Portland 😂
@@hinonai LOL Same thing boss.
That city in the background is Atlanta, they were showing the view from Buckhead. Buckhead is technically still a part of Atlanta…for now.
Toronto has a great skyline but Etobicoke and Mississauga which are in the Toronto area also have beautiful skylines now as well.