From Pianowizard,
A case in point is Atlanta, whose tallest skyscrapers are too spread out IMO -- see for example this aerial video
https://www.axiomimages.com/aerial-s.../view/AX38_030 . I was in Atlanta last month and the extreme sparseness of skyscrapers looked much worse than this video
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You make a good point. There are a number of problems affecting Atlanta which relate to the density of buildings and the way the city works which are
possibly less in Chicago's much greater density. The chief being automobile pollution and the frustrations of sitting in traffic for longer periods of time.
Atlanta is a poorly designed hub and it exemplifies why better planning is needed. It boomed with the worship of the automobile and now it has worse
air pollution than Chicago. For Atlanta, the distance between the buildings might alleviate some of the congestion while Chicago might benefit from
wider spacing because it is already so much larger. We may be comparing an apple (pun) to a peach and assuming that the cultural needs of one is
the same as the other.