It’s almost certainly in New York, but LaSalle Street is certainly up there with a beautiful Art Deco building to terminate the view.
I can’t think of anywhere aside from these two cities where true “skyscraper canyons” are really a thing. Most Asian cities are not on grids, and in other parts of the world it’s really more mid-rise density than true skyscrapers that form canyons (Buenos Aires, Tokyo, etc).
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There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there always has been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that "my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge." - Isaac Asimov
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