Small Cities with skyscrapers

[Neeko 1]

Clayton Mo. Population of 15,000. Suburb of St. Louis Metro 2.9 million

[SteveMSim 275]

The North Dakota State Capitol in Bismarck is one of a few skyscraper state capitols in the U.S.  It is also that state's tallest building.

[Redrabbit348 1]

What about Des Moines Iowa? It has a skyline that can be seen for miles and in my opinion one of the most beautiful. 

 

  Edited November 25, 2015 by Redrabbit348  

[SteveMSim 275]

What about Des Moines Iowa? It has a skyline that can be seen for miles and in my opinion one of the most beautiful. 

 

Des Moines hardly qualifies as a small city.  Wikipedia states that the city has a population of 203,433 and its metropolitan area's population is 611,549.  For comparison, Lincoln, Nebraska, which has a skyscraper state capitol, has a population of 258,379 and its metro area has 302,157.  Speaking of that, below is the skyscraper Nebraska State Capitol, designed by Bertram Goodhue:

Tallahassee, Florida has 181,376 inhabitants and a metro population of 375,751 and has a skyscraper state capitol:

I should also mention Baton Rouge, Louisiana, population of 228,895, a metro population of 820,159 and the tallest state capitol of all:

 

[Tntruler 1]

I personally would nominate surfers paradise AU. Population, 19,900 

 

[Compdude787 916]

What city is that? It seems like it's a lot bigger than 20,000 people.

[9gruntsand1hammer 3,196]

Gold Coast Australia. 

Surfers Paradise is a small section of Gold Coast.

[SteveMSim 275]

Gold Coast is hardly a small city.  It has a population of 527,828.  Surfer's Paradise is a district of Gold Coast, which makes it no different than Venice, California, which is a part of Los Angeles or Bronx, New York, which is part of New York City.

[gn1996 0]

My town Eugene Oregon has a small skyline for the population (400,000 in the metro area). Oregon's largest city Portland also has a smaller skyline for being a city of 2.5 million (metro area).  

Pic 1: Eugene 

Pic 2: Portland

 

[Mewds45 132]

Jackson, Michigan is definitely a candidate for this topic. It has a slightly declining population of 33,000 and a MSA of 159,000, and still manages to boast a skyline, this place is home to the Michigan state prison and north onto Brooklyn, MI shows the International Speedway.

(I also actually live here :P)

[johndoh4 13]

Lol, does this count? Sandusky has a population of about 25,000; I used to see this from the highway over Sandusky Bay on my trips between Toledo and Cleveland when I lived in Ohio.
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My real choice is  Bartlesville, Oklahoma; population 36,000

 

 

 

[DavidDHetzel 1,816]

Maryville, Tennessee

(27,000) + this thing.

 

[vintagamer 75]

Evansville, IN has a decent skyline for its size. The city is about 120,000, with the metropolitan area claiming to be 314,000 (I'd argue against that metro figure though, since Evansville sits in the middle of Indianapolis, Louisville, Nashville, and St. Louis, and that number probably includes all the area halfway between each of those cities, a lot of space).

Anyway:

Fun fact: the white building on the far right is the tallest building, it's essentially abandoned, and it used to be the HQ of Old National Bank, who moved to that new building in the middle on the waterfront.

[peperodriguez2710 138]

Well, the Spanish city of Benidorm, with a population of only 66642 is the city in the world with most skyscrapers per habitant in the world, and has 43 buildings taller than 80 metres, and some of them being close to 200 metres.

[Sciurus 323]

It's interesting to note that some french cities in the 60's wanted some modernity in their old city centre... I can give the example of Nancy, where I live, which has only 100k citizens and has is own "little manhattan" 

French scale but the highest tower (on the left side) is around 100m tall.

[NicholasSloan 7]

I think that the honor goes to Whittier, Alaska. Nearly all of the city's 214 residents live in the 14 story Begich Towers Condominuim.

[Ocram's Razr 964]

13 hours ago, NicholasSloan said:

I think that the honor goes to Whittier, Alaska. Nearly all of the city's 214 residents live in the 14 story Begich Towers Condominuim.

Whittier, Alaska is the best experiment on the feasibility of urban Arcologies in existence. It's denser than Arcosanti. Combining the findings from both, you could build Arcologies anywhere (with a port) desired as Whittier is arctic and Arcosanti is in a desert.

[NicholasSloan 7]

Now that I think about it, I think that Pripyat, Ukraine could technically be the smallest city with skyscrapers. Due to the Chernobyl disaster, Pripyat has a population of 0 people.

If that doesn't count, then Poliske, Ukraine, also impacted by the Chernobyl disaster, has a couple of relatively tall buildings. I don't know if they could be classified as skyscrapers though. Unlike Pripyat, Poliske does have people living in it. As of 2013, there are 20 people still living there.

[Cool_Z 1,547]

Pripyat is cheating...

[TekindusT 3,809]

I was quite surprised when I visited Poznan, Poland. Many Eastern Bloc cities have small clusters with tall buildings (can't really be considered skyscrapers), a result of the Soviet-influenced planning of the 1950s and 60s.

[EvansRE4 796]

Well how about my hometown of Little Rock, Arkansas the city's population is 193,524 and this is our skyline...

[Fantozzi 4,067]

People may think such a romantic and lovely skyline like the one of the city of Heidelberg never would be disfigured by a skyscraper.

 

And they are absolutely right.

 

And if there was a thread for the most misplaced skyscraper in the world I probably would have to post there. Because Heidelberg has a skyscraper, built by an insurance company. But they had to build it somewhere not disturbing the famous medieval skyline - hidden behind the next bend of the mountain range where tourist looking on the castle won't see it :

Standing there in the middle of the woods like an unwanted son abandoned by the city it should belong to.

[Toothless Stitch 2,901]

Quickly browsed through this thread, not really surprised no one has mentioned Eschborn, Hesse yet. With some sweet little total population of 20.000

It even has it's on banner on Emporis, what more could a skyline wish for?

[TekindusT 3,809]

Germany will never stop surprising me... I've seen Eschborn is very near Frankfurt a.M. Could it be that this area of Eschborn was first established as a suburban office park and then grew up by companies escaping the skyrocketing real estate prices in downtown Frankfurt?

[Toothless Stitch 2,901]

On 8.10.2017 at 2:10 PM, TekindusT said:

Germany will never stop surprising me... I've seen Eschborn is very near Frankfurt a.M. Could it be that this area of Eschborn was first established as a suburban office park and then grew up by companies escaping the skyrocketing real estate prices in downtown Frankfurt?

I guess so. Real estate prices seem to be pretty low. Even after the financial crisis there were some developments there. Surpringly enough, even Deutsche Bank and Deutsche Post have their sub-hubs there while having offices in Frankfurt a.M. at the same time. Most of the buildings were built in the 90s and early 2000s. But as far as I know it's just a plain commercial park that always belonged to Eschborn. However, it's very easily accessable and due to it being close to Frankfurt it's very common among companies to lease space here, including Vodafone, IBM and Siemens.

[matias93 7,535]

On 02-07-2017 at 6:56 AM, Fantozzi said:

And if there was a thread for the most misplaced skyscraper in the world I probably would have to post there. Because Heidelberg has a skyscraper, built by an insurance company. But they had to build it somewhere not disturbing the famous medieval skyline - hidden behind the next bend of the mountain range where tourist looking on the castle won't see it :

I guess it wasn't the most sensible investment they have done: why not to build some lower office buildings, like an office park, instead of such complicated structure in a place where terrain prices don't justify it? I guess they simply had the architectural plans already and didn't want to ditch them...

[SamsungTechFan 0]

Marquette, IA has a population of only 375 people.. Yeah, it's very small, and it's not connected to a city. Marquette has a lot of 3 story buildings and a big casino.

Tallest building is the main hotel in downtown, with 4 stories high. I know it's not that tall but, for a village of only 375 people, that's pretty big. Plus it has a big Casey's gas station. The whole town is basically downtown.

Population: 375 people

 

[FluffyKitty12 0]

Stockton, California population of (310,496) has tall buildings pretty small more like a medium city

[FluffyKitty12 0]

Topeka Kansas population of (126,587) the capitol

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[jstange059 1]

Ok, I'm a bit late to this discussion, but I'll show off my hometown of Fenton, Missouri, with the population of 4,022, and boasts one "skyscraper", the maritz tower. And if you really wanted to, you could stretch, and count our hospital, St. Clair