Jason Thorne“How Old is Your City’s Skyline?” … an amazing contrast between U.S. and Canadian cities.
(Source: https://www.reddit.com/r/MapPorn/comments/1f9p4ll/how_old_is_your_citys_skyline_us_and_canada/)
simonbp@JasonThorne Denver looks weird because they razed the entire (streetcar focused) downtown in the 70s for a few oil company skyscrapers and huge parking deserts. It's taken a very long time to heal from that vandalism.
Dan 
@simonbp @JasonThorne I’m not exactly a militant urbanist, but the way we sacrificed so many downtowns to parking and highways has driven me pretty close.
Ray Jepson@JasonThorne California must be a poor dump.
Warren Currie 🦠🦐@JasonThorne cool. The skyscraper boom of the last decade or so in Canada is of course all about building condo towers everywhere (which is why the market for them is crashing *hard right now). Ottawa is interestingly different, but driven by the fact that until 1965, nothing could be built taller than the Parliament Buildings.
Daniel Brotherston@JasonThorne I also love how virtually nothing dense was built in many cities between 1990 and 2010...and we wonder why our cities are as broken as they are.
Benjamin Ross@JasonThorne Fascinating to see the cities that built downtown skyscrapers in the 1960s & 70s and few high-rises since. Denver, Columbus, Wilmington, Albuquerque... Notable how many are state capitals.