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Cities with small skylines that will/expected to make big changes

Not sure if this has been discussed but what are some cities with small skylines that will/expected to make big changes. Can be any cities not just American.
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i think it's only been discussed about sixty-seven thousand times so we probably need another thread about it. and a bunch of slight variations on the same topic couldn't hurt—like a separate thread for every possible combination of definitions of "small" and "tall," etc.
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I would put it at 67,487 threads.
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Oakland has always been overshadowed by SF, but it has the potential to get at a little bit closer.

Oakland-San Francisco Bay by Marquis Houghton, on Flickr

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There's a decent amount of construction going on right now, and this proposal for a new tallest at 622 ft.





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^ cool!

i didn't know about that oakland proposal.

that would be a very big deal for the bay area's second skyline.
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Is Oakland benefiting from SF's growth? Like Jersey City, I would think it would be ripe for condos (overlooking SF skyline and the Bay Bridge) as well as office space escaping the cost in SF.
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the tallest building in oregon is 546 feet. thats huge.

i just looked up tallest for san jose and its hight restricted, i wondered why the buildings were short. ive never been to oakland though.

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Is Oakland benefiting from SF's growth? Like Jersey City, I would think it would be ripe for condos (overlooking SF skyline and the Bay Bridge) as well as office space escaping the cost in SF.
I think most of Oakland's waterfront (on the SF Bay) is industrial. The Bay is also quite a bit wider than the Hudson, so not quite the same opportunity for an in-your-face view of the SF skyline as you get of Manhattan's from JC.

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Right, Oakland isn't really analogous to Jersey City.

Downtown Oakland is 10 miles from downtown SF, which is further than, say, downtown Newark is to Manhattan. And downtown Oakland isn't on the water, or oriented towards SF. I don't doubt that Oakland is benefiting from the overall high prices in the Bay Area, but isn't really overflow from downtown SF.

A lot of the gentrifying parts of Oakland seems to be overflow from Berkeley, actually. West Oakland, closest to the water and SF, seems to the be roughest area. It's more like two separate metros that eventually merged into one, rather than a satellite city.
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Yeah, wasn't sure; Oakland seemed a bit further away from SF than JC is to NYC. I was there in March and the two cities did seem pretty 'distant' figuratively and literally.
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Vaughn, Ontario with around 300,000 people, is leaping from suburban sprawl into the skyline game. In the next decade the city expects to add more than 12,000 high-rise residential units, 1.5 million square feet of office space, and 750,000 square feet of new retail space.

Sort of Mississauga redux....


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This throw-back, stepped 60 storey brick tower should have been built downtown.


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Right, Oakland isn't really analogous to Jersey City.

Downtown Oakland is 10 miles from downtown SF, which is further than, say, downtown Newark is to Manhattan. And downtown Oakland isn't on the water, or oriented towards SF. I don't doubt that Oakland is benefiting from the overall high prices in the Bay Area, but isn't really overflow from downtown SF.

A lot of the gentrifying parts of Oakland seems to be overflow from Berkeley, actually. West Oakland, closest to the water and SF, seems to the be roughest area. It's more like two separate metros that eventually merged into one, rather than a satellite city.
That's not quite correct. The rapidly gentrifying or gentrified areas of Oakland are close to BART (Temescal, West Oakland, Uptown), and are a quicker commute to downtown SF than many neighborhoods of San Francisco. It's not Berkeley overflow. The most economically disadvantaged neighborhoods are in East Oakland, closer to San Leandro. There is waterfront development going on in Oakland (see Brooklyn Basin), but the heaviest development is near the 19th St. and MacArthur BART stations.
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East Africa has a lot of fast growing and highrise building cities:

1. Addis Ababa, Ethiopia







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2. Dar es Salaam, Tanzania has been building a lot in the last decade and will continue to












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3. Maputo, Mozambique














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4. Nairobi, Kenya has been building a lot through the metro area, and now has 3 distint skylines









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Fantastic African city tour nite... thx!
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i think it's only been discussed about sixty-seven thousand times so we probably need another thread about it. and a bunch of slight variations on the same topic couldn't hurt—like a separate thread for every possible combination of definitions of "small" and "tall," etc.
I didn't know that so........
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Just wanted to thank all those who contributed to this topic and the pics are awesome! Thanks again!
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Probably many Eastern European cities, I'd guess.
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