scarberiankhatru
Senior Member
All skyline comparisons are personal...even your "quantitative" skyscraper analysis is personal. You chose to exclude the CN Tower but include 12 storey suburban slabs.
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Why bother? The discussion will inevitably degenerate into one of those "my skyline is better than yours because..." arguments common among the trolls at SSP/SSC.
Wrong. The reason why I went with floor counts was so I would NOT have to 'pick and choose' from among all the highrises, but instead include all of them. Unfortunately it means that I lose the non-highrise towers, but those are still included in the 'height' metric, where all the actual heights I need are available online.you can pick and choose what buildings to include and what not to in your height and floor calculations
If you had read what I wrote, you would see that there is a lot that can be gleaned from the data I compiled. Total number of highrises, for any floor count starting at 12. Average tower height in floors. Skyline 'height', based on the 10 tallest structures (including towers). Unusual fluctuations in floor counts (i.e. the unusually high number of floor counts that are multiples of ten, in New York). Scale height of a skyline (how rapidly the numbers of highrises diminishes with increasing floor count -- Toronto and New York have similar scale heights, while Chicago had a much higher scale height). Just because this means nothing to YOU, does not mean that others don't find the information useful.but in the end it says nothing about the skyline unless you attach some kind of spatial relationship to the data.
Fine. Let's say that these numbers only comprise 10% of what is needed to judge between skylines. You are saying, 'throw out that 10% of objective facts, I would rather base my opinion stictly on personal, unverifiable, biased opinions'. You do that.Your unimproved data is a starting point only to endless arguments since skylines that are impressive and/or beautiful are so 99% because of building placement. Only if all of Toronto's towers were strung along the waterfront would both numbers and aesthetics compare our skyline favourably with Chicago's.