Favourite city

[sebrat13wildcat 5]

I just wanted to see what everyone's favourite cities were:

1. Shanghai
2. Budapest
3. Tokyo
4. New York
5. Paris
6. Geneva
7. Berlin
8. Frankfurt
9. Singapore
10. Auckland
11. Warsaw
12. Prague
13. Ampsterdam
14. Cape Town
15. Madrid
16. London
17. Chicago
18. Hong Kong
19. Sydney
20. Other (please specify)

Please make your descision on a basis of urban design, architecture and city planning.

[Cjah 15]

2.Budapest.

It has classical design and style and is one of the finest European Capitols.

 

I really think the bridges make Budapest a tad more unique then most cities on rivers.

 

Budapest!

[Superstar 69]

New York, I'm love the big city, the tall scrapers and the location. It's one of my favorite places on this earth

[NintendoMaster128 30]

New York City

[theblademaster 1]

20. Delft

I love the combination of a classic of city center, and area's with scyscrapers and modern arcitecture, all in a relative close area to each other.

[sebrat13wildcat 5]

Cool, I've never heard of Delft, where is it? I'll look for it on Google Image Search

[sebrat13wildcat 5]

Oh, Holland, yes it is very pretty

[justanothersim86 83]

Vancouver is my overall favourite city (other). Dense, Clean, Little snow, Great Location, Beautiful city just overall. On the list I'd have to say NY, it made me hate the suburbs even more.

Why aren't there any Canadian cities? Canadian cities usually place well in the top ten most livable cities in the world.

[Hanson784 165]

Put me down for New York, I have many reasons why, but here are a few. NYC is one of the most diverse city's in the world. I love everything about it from Staten Island to the Bronx. Plus, it has that classic skyline.

[decola 0]

Genoa, because of the great architecture, the wonderful port, the medditeranean climate, and the lovely pace of life there, frantic, yet so mellow..

[MallowTheCloud 41]

Portland (Oregon)... but then I'm biased, 'cause that's where I'm from.

[Shpigglewog 0]

San Diego has one of my favorite downtown areas of all the cities I've been to. It's very residential-oriented rather than commercial, with lots of sleak, tall condos along the waterfront, punctuated by plazas, fountains, nightclubs, a really cool 7-story mall, and the like.

NYC, New Orleans, San Fransisco, and Vancouver are also up there. Haven't been to Europe yet.

On the flipside, Los Angeles is definately one of the worst. It has all of NYC's bad qualities, without any of the good ones. Plus it's ugly.

[GingerBlokey 30]

In no particular order

London
Newcastle
Portsmouth
Norwich
Great Yarmouth
Cromer
King Lynn
Berwick upon Tweed
Llandudno
Pwhelli
Llanberis
Conwy
Cardiff
Bath
Koln
Koblenz

[CitySeeker 0]

Los Gatos California.

A very little known city. It is situtated in the South Bay Area at the base of the Santa Cruz mountains. It borders San Jose and has only a population of about 28,000.

I have many relatives that live in the area and I visit there all the time. The city itself is beautiful. For starters the mountains give a great back drop for the city. The Architecture in downtown itself are mostly buildings from the early 1900's or buildings that were re-built to look like that style after the devastating 1989 earthquake. Not many people know it but the earthquake actually happened right above los Gatos in the mountains. San Francisco got all the attention for the damage it did but parts of Los Gatos was destroyed.

The actual buildings are beautiful a lot of detail of an early century look. Many of the homes in the downtown area are old victorian type homes or large homes over 100 years old. Although some of course were destroyed in the earthquake.

May I also add that Atari, Apple Computer, and The Pet Rock were all invented here.

Well anyways I wish I had some pics of it but for some reason the pics I took of downtown last year were somehow deleted from my camera shortly after taking them.

Yeah so Los Gatos Rules in my book.

[choco1 4]

My home city is my favorite: Melbourne. Such a beautiful clean city. Its the most livable in the world! It has such a great variety of architecture and its just so exciting. I also love Paris!

[BarbulaM1 38]

Everyone always over looks one of the best cities in the country and almost second capital based on federal departments (second most federal employment and almost all federal departments have a western hq).

Denver, one of the fastest developing downtowns in the country and now stunted sub-urban growth by laws in place to prevent it. Denver is an awsome city. Although it is my second it wasn't on that list so I just had to speak out .

 

Chicago is my fav and Denver next since it is quite a bit like it now.

[The Evil Octopus Man 25]

Phoenix tops my list, with Atlanta as a respectable second.

[joel4 1]

NEW ORLEANS,LOUISIANA IS MY FAVORITE CITY AND HAS A POPULATION

OF 481,000.ITS MY FAVORITE CITY BECAUSE I LIVE THERE.

 

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[p2h5 3]

I don't know which one came first, but there is a bigger 'favourite city' post in the 'City Building Concepts' forum, which everyone is answering at the moment, with pictures.

[sebrat13wildcat 5]

Well tough because this one was posted first and is in the right forum

[Mulefisk 15]

Oslo, of course!

Lots of lovely 18th century buildings to be found.

 

[Woko 2]

1 - Montr

[Jerebannus XVI 7]

in order of preference

Rome (i love the churches and bridges)

Venice (Canals replace roads, gondolas replace cars)

London (Oxford St is the best street in the world, Picadilly Circus is historic)

Madrid (Love the people, and royal buildings)

Buenos Aires (A bohemian and glamorous city)

Sao Paulo (This city does not have a downtown, the city itself is a downtown (or many downtowns))

Bogota (the best weather in the world, the best air to breathe and the best mountains to contemplate)

Panama City (perhaps the best skyline in the world)

Tokyo (where's nature here? yes that's what i like buildings and buildings...it extends forever...end?)

Shanghai(The Paris of Asia, oh yes very nice food)

 

 

[Saint Andrew 6]

Obciously I'm gonna say Montreal, because I've lived here all my life and I just love it. I've been to dozens of US big cities and I still have to say Montreal for the diverse architecture all over this beautiful city of 3.4-mil.

Here's the skyline at night:

http://www.geocities.com/saint_andrew_st/ST/MtlNight.jpg align=baseline>

It's only partial, we can't see all of Downtown so here's an other one, day pic.

 

http://www.geocities.com/saint_andrew_st/ST/champlain3.jpg align=baseline>

That is from Highway 20 on Champlain Bridge, over the Saint Lawrence River.

[Nenitosoyyo 19]

Winnipeg(Because it has culture from all over the world, we have alot of events that go on and one of them is called Folkorama, Folkorama is when different cultures that have a pavillion and you can go and see there traditional dances and food, and the other thing I like is that its easy to get around the city since Winnipeg is not small or to huge, there only one down side that I dont like Winnipeg is are winter because we get 9 to 8 or 7 months of cold snowy winter usually in Dec/Jan/Feb are temp drops down to -35C or even -45C, but are summers are great because we get at least 3 months and the temp is usually around 35C to 45C lol its weird how we get really cold winters and really hot summers, I've lived here so far about 16 years and 3 months in half lol, thats practically all my life)

Vancouver(pretty city, I love how nature is mixed with modern city with lots of sky scrapers in the downtown area, I use to live there for 3 months in half by my self with my aunt, i went to high school there for a while in Port Moody where I was living, its part of Vancouver but its away from downtown about 45 mins, but now im back in Winnipeg and relized how wonderful it was to live in winnipeg)

 

Tokyo( because its crowded and lots of buildings that go on for ever, oh and I love Japanese language)

 

Hong Kong(because of all the tall sky scrapers, and that its crowed and pretty mountains in the background)

 

those are the places that i like, sorri if i wrote to much, just like to give lots of info lol

[Tomirish 2]

Cities Ive been to:

1. Omaha, NE

2. Kansas City, MO

3. Chicago, IL

4. Minneapolis, MN

5. Lincoln, NE

6. St. Paul, MN

7. Kansas City, KS

I was born in #1 and lived there for only five years

 

Cities Id like to visit:

1. Seattle, WA

2. Boston, MA

3. London, UK

4. Edinburgh, Scotland

5. San Diego, CA

6. Philadelphia, PA

7. Dublin, Ireland

 

Cities I consider moving to when Im older:

1. Toronto, Ontario

2. Calgary, Alberta

3. Boston, MA

4. Denver, CO

[djrules5454 5]

My Top 10:

 

1. Minneapolis, MN

2. New York

3. London

4. Paris

5. Tokyo

6. Chicago

7. Shanghai

8. Rome

9. Mexico City

10. Sydney

 

I'm a bit biased because I live near Minneapolis.

[eburress 267]

Here's my favorite city, San Diego. It has great natural beauty and its climate is one of the best in the world. San Diego's downtown is vibrant and it is quickly becoming one of the most Vancouver-like cities in the US (the others being Seattle and San Fran).

[Exhagaga 0]

Since no one else has Im gonna have to say Auckland! (Even if it is my home city) Its probobly the smallest city on the list (1.5million), so it feels very community like. Most people live in plain view of the CBD, and less than 10mins from the sea! The harbour is beutiful and the gulf is full of conservation islands.

 

A city that I hav not lived in though but still really like is Santiago. I sepnt about 10hrs in the city on a stopover and I thought it was amazing. Skifields are 40mins from the CBD, a river runs through it, and you can see snow topped mountains from everywhere. Apparantly its one of the most poluted cities in South America but I visited on a good day!

[Compromise 1]

Date: 8/1/2005 2:16:01 PM Author: sebrat13wildcat Well tough because this one was posted first and is in the right forum

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No, the other one was posted first and its a lot more colourful than this one. I will say London alougth I am not going to repost all the pictures with it.