Is it possible to have multiple downtowns?

[De Ja Vu 117]

I mean like is it possible to have more skyscraper districts in one city? If it is can someone name at least one city that has skyscrapers at multiple areas...

-Dejavu

[rawr APPLES 15]

Atlanta's midtown, London's Canary Wharf. All I can think of at the top of my head.

[De Ja Vu 117]

Wow, your right! I just checked it up on google earth and now I feel great about playing my city

[Deever 23]

Tokyo has Shinjuku and Marunouchi, I believe. Although the former is a lot denser than the latter.

[Micah 16]

Houston has skyscrapers in Westchase, Uptown, the Texas Medical Center, downtown (of course), and the Woodlands.

[Raxter 1]

New York city is an obvious example. The financial district on the tip is separated from Midtown Manhattan by a lot of "low-rise" blocks.(quotes because they're still taller than alot of america's mid-sized skylines)

[josefmayor 8]

Tampa

Downtown (Proper) & Westshore Central Business District

Tampa is also right next to 2 medium sized cities that are like 10 miles apart from eachother. Which is St. Pete and Clearwater.

Downtown Tampa is on the east end of JFK Blvd and Westshore is on the west end of JFK. They are around 6 miles apart from eachother.

[un1 41]

My hometown (Thunder Bay, Ontario) has 2 downtowns... Mainly because they merged together.

The "present" downtown is in Fort William and the "past" downtown is in Port Arthur.

-un1

[ktxus05 0]

the toronto area has 2 downtowns, one in toronto and one in mississaugua (largest suburb in n america i believe) also here in texas dallas and ft worth both have large downtowns, and i believe houston's suburbs have some small skyscrapers

[clubshishi 0]

Yes there are many cities that have several major business center that have a large amount of tall office buildings London , New York, LA, Boston, Atlanta, Houston , Dallas, just to name a few so go ahead and make as many as you like in one city there are no rules to how you build your city, just enjoy the game.

[De Ja Vu 117]

Ok, thank you all btw I have 3 downtown areas in my city

[hamsterTK 93]

Its really the present trend that urban areas are becoming more decentralized, whether it's lots of commercial or industrial spread evenly among sprawl, or more defined districts.

Due to the growth of suburban sprawl farther and farther from the original "downtown", there is demand to build smaller office/retail/entertainment districts closer to where the larger contingent of people live.

Most are highly sprawling, but a few, due to continued growth, find the need to build up and are much like mini-downtowns. These are probably the most interesting, IMO

Clayton, Missouri. Outside of St. Louis

Bellevue, Washington. Across from Seattle

"Galleria Area" of Houston.(aka uptown). The mother of all edge cities

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[Duke87 1,070]

Originally posted by: Raxter New York city is an obvious example. The financial district on the tip is separated from Midtown Manhattan by a lot of "low-rise" blocks.(quotes because they're still taller than alot of america's mid-sized skylines)quote>

You've also got Downtown Brooklyn and Long Island City (though you may choose to group those in with downtown and midtown, respectively).

New York's also got a lot of the "Satellite city" thing going on. That is, smaller cities within the metro area that are entities in and of themselves but nevertheless revolve around the larger central city.

You've got:

-The Hoboken/Jersey City/Weehawken/West New York conglomerate

- Newark

- Paterson

- New Brunswick

- Yonkers

- New Rochelle

- White Plains

- Stamford

...and several other lesser ones.

Go a bit further out and you also have places like Peekskill, Norwalk, and Bridgeport. They' don't revolve around new York quite as much, though. By being a bit further away they're less influenced by its "gravitational pull", as it were.

Long Island is a bit of a different animal in that you don't have so much satellite cities as much as you just have suburban sprawl which extends out of Queens, engulfs most of Nassau County, and chews into Suffolk County.

[montrouge 2]

Paris 

Paris main skyscraper district is la Defense but it  have several small high-rises areas outside it.

[torontotransit 2]

In, Toronto, you have really dense downtown, but North York and Scarborough pretty mush have their own little dense skylines. Mississauga as well, but it's not within Toronto proper, but yeah. This is common in Europe as the original downtowns contain historic buildings that people don't want to see destroyed: La defence, Cnary Wharf, etc

[The_Hutt 11]

LA has some satellite cities a la Westwood, Hollywood, Burbank, etc. with highrises.

[ILL Tonkso 1,239]

Birmingham England has Downtown and Five Ways. Manchester England has Downtown and Salford Quays. London has the City, Canary Wharf, Croydon, Vauxhall, Southwark, Westminster, Ealing, Greenwich, New Malden..... etc etc. Glasgow has the City Centre and Red Road. Any city can have multiple hi rise areas, it all depends on the way the city grows.

[enrico.astro 1]

Sao Paulo in Brasil is a skyscrapers city, all the city is built by high rise buildings..

[lilshortjordan 0]

My cities do. I just call them "business districts"

[newyorkrunaway1 110]

there are tons of cities with multiple cbd's... just to name a few major ones in the US... LA, Dallas, Houston, New York City, Atlanta... thats only a couple. there are tons.

[Wheezy 23]

Originally posted by: josefmayor Tampa

Downtown (Proper) & Westshore Central Business District

Tampa is also right next to 2 medium sized cities that are like 10 miles apart from eachother. Which is St. Pete and Clearwater.

Downtown Tampa is on the east end of JFK Blvd and Westshore is on the west end of JFK. They are around 6 miles apart from eachother.quote>

 

How many skyscrapers does Westshore have, though?

Three?  (And they're condos, I'm I'm not mistaken.)

Westshore is a tourist destination/seaport area.  However, Davis Islands and the area are fairly highrise.

[SimFox 804]

In China most cities do have multiple CBDs (I don't count here residential skyscrapers since most cities would have a real forest of them).

[Craig91 12]

In Dublin, some of the city's tallest buildings (which aren't very tall) are located in larger suburbs such as Tallaght (100,000) and Blachardstown (100,000).

[Jillybean86 38]

Don't forget about Minneapolis/St. Paul Minnesota. They are part of the same contiguous urban entity, but have very distinct downtowns with very different looks and feels. Interstate 494 forms part of the loop around both of them, and along I-494 in Bloomington there is more office space and high rises than both downtowns combined (such as the Best Buy world HQ).

Here's Minneapolis

Here's St Paul

And here's the I-494 strip - this is part of it, but it goes on for miles, nearly uninterrupted

[patriots_1228 51]

^thats a good example.

IMO those stupid little suburbs with a handle full of tall buildings in the middle of 1 story homes like clayton shouldn't count...thats an insult to citieseverywhere lol.

[rawr APPLES 15]

DC has loads..Rosslyn

Silver Spring

tysons corner

http://www.smartergrowth.net/anx/img/category/155/tysons.jpg

also

Silver Spring, Rockville, Silver City, Shirlington, Couple more places in Arlington, Alexandria

[josefmayor 8]

Originally posted by: Wheezy

Originally posted by: josefmayor Tampa

Downtown (Proper) & Westshore Central Business District

Tampa is also right next to 2 medium sized cities that are like 10 miles apart from eachother. Which is St. Pete and Clearwater.

Downtown Tampa is on the east end of JFK Blvd and Westshore is on the west end of JFK. They are around 6 miles apart from eachother.quote>

 

How many skyscrapers does Westshore have, though?

Three?  (And they're condos, I'm I'm not mistaken.)

Westshore is a tourist destination/seaport area.  However, Davis Islands and the area are fairly highrise.quote>

Westshore has no condo skyscrapers, its all banks and hotels. Westshore has no touristy stuff there. There's a crappy mall and an upscale mall for the Airport.

The Seaport is really really really far down on Westshore and it's in a slumish area.

The Cruise Ship terminal is in downtown.

Davis Island doesn't have any highrises either.

Harbor Island has the highrise condos and so does the Channel District and Downtown.

Westshore Skyline

Downtown Tampa

[thisisbrilliant 0]

Hi all sorry about the massiveness of this file, but it does quite nicely show the future skyline of London, 2012, looking North! The named buildings are the ones under construction, ranging from 80m to 310m, although this pic is oldish so some of the proposed buildings have been cancelled. Most of the taller ones are still going ahead particularly in the City and Canary Wharf.

This doesn't show the Croydon skyline in south London, which features several skyscrapers inlcuding proposed towers up to 200m, and also the Stratford City develepmont which includes the Olympic park and numerous skscrapers. All in all there are around 5 or 6 clusters. I think.

Hopefully the credit crunch will be over by 2012 or there will be a lot of empty buildings out there....!

Finally - I didn't do this. So all credit to whoever did.

[ILL Tonkso 1,239]

Ah thats Will Foxes work from Forest Hill, and yes Croydon is just behind the photographer (Will) in that pic. In fact awell, no building on that diagram (only future/UC ones are listed) none of them are cancelled, the only change is that Crossharbour is now named Baltimore Wharf and has had a taller redesign.

[thisisbrilliant 0]

well well i didn't know Crossharbour had been renamed as Baltimore wharf, I worked on that earlier this year! Keep hearing rumours that various things have been cancelled or postponed, notably the pinnacle, but i drove past it the other day and its still ongoing...

Thanks for mentioning the orgin of the pic, I got it of skyscrapernews.com but it seems to have been taken down....