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Favorite Capital City Skyline Part II


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Capital Cities  

179 members have voted

  1. 1. Whats your favorite capital city skyline?

    • Montgomery
      2
    • Little Rock
      34
    • Tallahassee
      6
    • Baton Rouge
      6
    • Frankfort
      1
    • Jackson
      3
    • Raleigh
      9
    • Oklahoma City
      6
    • Columbia
      23
    • Nashville
      50
    • Austin
      15
    • Richmond
      24


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Little Rock, for its size vs. population. To refresh your memory:

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Great photos! Whats the name of the tallest tower? When I used to go to Little Rock often several years ago, it was the TCBY tower, but looks like a different sign on it now.

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gotta go with nashville on this one. and many thanks to lexy for this beautiful shot (he has many many more, this guy is a picture taking animal!!!) just think, in 5 years it's going to look a lot different (and a lot taller).

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I really like Nashville's skyline from the south...because SoBro is lower in elevation, it makes the buildings look taller...

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*photo courtesy of Lexy*

Oh, I forgot, besides that I like Little Rock's skyline. Very nice for a city of its size! Good looking buildings (both tall and small) as well.

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OKC is my favorite... And I have reasons other than hometown bias. The density and variety in height and shape are really nice I think. Sometimes I think you have to be a pedestrian in downtown OKC to truly realize the beauty of the skyline- from many angles you can't get a view of the whole skyline because the density is so high.

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IDK, Little Rock and OKC have some height but there are only a few buildings there.

Richmond (boxy as it is) has some body, so does Nashville.

Yet for some unknown reason I have a feeling in my gut that Columbia will somehow win this one... lol

Anyone have pics of Tallahassee?

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Columbia's buildings are nice looking...but pretty spread out. Both Nashville and Richmond have several blocks of pretty decently sized buildings close together.

I agree, here's Richmond's skyline. It has a nice dense urban core.

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My vote goes for Richmond. Its pretty dense and it stretches out rather wide. If anyone that has seen the skyline from I-95 North coming from the Southside knows what I'm talking about. I give Nashville #2 and Columbia/Little Rock are tied for #3.

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If you go by size, then including the West End skyline of Nashville with the CBD...it wins in my opinion (but I am a homer LOL!). We are talking about three or four miles of straight buildings and rooflines.

See what I mean. BTW, the dip in the "rooflines" toward the middle of the pic is actually a valley, so some builidngs are obscured a bit by the tree line and the small ridge behind them. This pic looks from the north to south, I-65/24 is on the far left and I-440 is on the far right. This is the ENTIRE skyline of Nashville that is visible to some in places around the north side.

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