Future Skyline

DZH22 said:
No you can't. Those aren't literally RIGHT NEXT TO EACH OTHER with no clear break in the skyline. Those are separated by miles of suburbia.
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Jersey City is literally RIGHT NEXT TO MANHATTAN. Therefore it's part of New York right?
 
tysmith95 said:
Jersey City is literally RIGHT NEXT TO MANHATTAN. Therefore it's part of New York right?
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It's considered part of the NYC skyline in all the skyline ratings systems, yes. It can also be measured separately but the numbers are included with NYC's. In fact, check the link above.
 
Jersey city is basically a part of New York. Its connected by multiple subways and tunnels. Were nit picking here. Its not New York but its more a part of NYC than 90% of the actual state of NY is. The same way that Cambridge is by all intents and purposes Boston when you are walking/driving/taking a train in real life. Its only not Boston when you look at a map and get technical. Same with chelsea, revere...etc. If you dont pull up google maps and go about your life Chelsea is as much a part of Boston as Mattapan is. Brooklines annexation refusal made the shit more complicated than it needed to be.
 
DZH22 said:
No you can't. Those aren't literally RIGHT NEXT TO EACH OTHER with no clear break in the skyline. Those are separated by miles of suburbia.
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So by that logic, Los Angeles is actually multiple cities because literally the city consist of several business centers with their own skyline separated by low density neighborhoods.
 
KentXie said:
So by that logic, Los Angeles is actually multiple cities because literally the city consist of several business centers with their own skyline separated by low density neighborhoods.
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Los Angeles is 503 square miles. If you added Cambridge to Boston it comes to 55 square miles. You are doing a better job of making MY point than making YOUR point. From a "voting perspective" it's semantics that the inner suburbs chose not to be incorporated. From a skyline perspective, it's literally indistinguishable where Cambridge ends and Boston begins from a whole host of angles. (except the middle of the river)
 
DZH, you're confusing city limit with metropolitan region limit. Most skyline ranking do measure at a metropolitan scale but if you're talking specifically about the city limit or referring to Boston AS a city and not GREATER BOSTON, then no Cambridge is not Boston.
 
DZH22 said:
Los Angeles is 503 square miles. If you added Cambridge to Boston it comes to 55 square miles. You are doing a better job of making MY point than making YOUR point. From a "voting perspective" it's semantics that the inner suburbs chose not to be incorporated. From a skyline perspective, it's literally indistinguishable where Cambridge ends and Boston begins from a whole host of angles. (except the middle of the river)
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So you agree that LA is actually multiple cities?
 
KentXie said:
So you agree that LA is actually multiple cities?
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No, but the skyline suffers by being decentralized. LA is actually technically the "densest" city in the entire country so it's tough to argue that. But it's over 500 square miles of it. The argument is that if Boston was on more even footing with the rest of the country, then Cambridge/Somerville/Brookline is all part of Boston. In fact, many more suburbs depending on which city we are comparing to, but I prefer to stick with the contiguous urban area, which happens to have a singular connected skyline.
 
Wow. Some poor guy asked with his first post about architecture and this is how the forum responded. I hope he hasn't been scared off of posting.
 
KentXie said:
DZH, what's the population of Boston?
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I guess the following cities must all be bigger than Boston:

Phoenix
San Antonio
San Diego
Austin
Jacksonville
Indianapolis
Columbus
El Paso
Memphis

That is quite the excellent system you are using there. It's too bad this is a SKYLINE thread and it's too bad that the SKYLINES of Boston and Cambridge are literally one skyline. Next time I'm in one of the above cities I'll be sure to note how much bigger it is than Boston because KentXie doesn't think having apples to apples area comparisons should make any sort of difference.
 
DZH22 said:
I guess the following cities must all be bigger than Boston:

Phoenix
San Antonio
San Diego
Austin
Jacksonville
Indianapolis
Columbus
El Paso
Memphis

That is quite the excellent system you are using there. It's too bad this is a SKYLINE thread and it's too bad that the SKYLINES of Boston and Cambridge are literally one skyline. Next time I'm in one of the above cities I'll be sure to note how much bigger it is than Boston because KentXie doesn't think having apples to apples area comparisons should make any sort of difference.
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Answer the question instead of deflecting please.

That being said, you should consider a career as a goaltender the way you are deflecting these questions.
 
KentXie said:
Answer the question instead of deflecting please.

That being said, you should consider a career as a goaltender the way you are deflecting these questions.
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The population of Boston proper is approximately 640k but it has an arbitrarily small boundary compared to other US cities due to suburban resistance. In terms of actual urban area/skyline, Cambridge clearly IS Boston. It's all on the same subway. Go visit Jacksonville and tell me how it stacks up.
 
DZH22 said:
The population of Boston proper is approximately 640k but it has an arbitrarily small boundary compared to other US cities due to suburban resistance. In terms of actual urban area/skyline, Cambridge clearly IS Boston. It's all on the same subway. Go visit Jacksonville and tell me how it stacks up.
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Ok 640k it is in Boston proper. Thanks.
 
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