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Originally Posted by edluva
I can see LA looking like Detroit or Philly's pre-war skyline if LA had no height restrictions owing to the fact that as stated above demand for the central city was already dropping (already sprawling) by the 1940s due to the car, and LA was similar in population to Philly/Detroit through the 1930s-40s.
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As I was reading through this line of the conversation, I was having the exact same thought. Detroit or Philly, but a little more spread out.
*Imagining the Atlantic-Richfield Building 500ft tall!*
Then again, San Francisco only had 3 or 4 distinctively tall buildings over 300ft before WWII so maybe not.
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