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Originally Posted by Steely Dan
i don't think anyone can make a sensible argument that chicago's skyline development has been arrested over the recent past.
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The fact is the 70s was a good time for dynamic change in a lot of cities specifically their skylines. The 80s and 90s for most cities didn't change much and from the 2000s onward, only a handful of cities have really had any drastic change to their skyline.
With Chicago, of the top 10 tallest, only 2 were built later than 1990 while 4 of the current tallest were built between 1969 and 1979. Many other US cities have a very similar trend.
You would think by 2020 plenty of the tallest skyscrapers for most US cities would all be less than 10 years old, but this isn't the case expect for NYC or Austin and maybe one or two other places. In general, the newest skyscrapers might be decently tall, but the tallest skyscrapers are not really new.
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