I was thinking of a way to distinguish between the largest cities on Earth that would not be completely biased and opinion driven. Using roof heights I know will be somewhat controversial with some buildings and somewhat opinionated but not nearly as much as just people basing the largest cities in terms of opinion and bias alone.
In fact this thread isn't a determination of the largest city either. Instead the purpose of this thread is to count every skyscraper (600+ feet in roof height) in the city. These are the same guidelines that SkyscraperCity uses to determine what a skyscraper is except they use pinnacle height.
I will add the buildings up in each city to determine the cumulative roof height of all its skyscrapers/supertalls/megatalls.
Only completed buildings count and observation towers do not count.
My prediction is that the Top 35 in the world will be (in no order):
1. Toronto
2. Chicago
3. New York
4. Panama City
5. London
6. Moscow
7. Tokyo
8. Kuala Lumpur
9. Riyadh
10. Abu Dhabi
11. Dubai
12. Kuwait City
13. Singapore
14. Mumbai
15. Mecca
16. Jakarta
17. Hong Kong
18. Shenzhen
19. Guangzhou
20. Shanghai
21. Nanjing
22. Chongqing
23. Taipei
24. Shenyang
25. Tianjin
26. Beijing
27. Seoul
28. Busan
29. Wuhan
30. Wuxi
31. Los Angeles
32. Houston
33. Melbourne
34. Suzhou
35. Dalian
Coming up with these numbers will take a long time so be patient and I will post city's cumulative roof heights when I get them done. Thanks. Hope you enjoy the thread.
In fact this thread isn't a determination of the largest city either. Instead the purpose of this thread is to count every skyscraper (600+ feet in roof height) in the city. These are the same guidelines that SkyscraperCity uses to determine what a skyscraper is except they use pinnacle height.
I will add the buildings up in each city to determine the cumulative roof height of all its skyscrapers/supertalls/megatalls.
Only completed buildings count and observation towers do not count.
My prediction is that the Top 35 in the world will be (in no order):
1. Toronto
2. Chicago
3. New York
4. Panama City
5. London
6. Moscow
7. Tokyo
8. Kuala Lumpur
9. Riyadh
10. Abu Dhabi
11. Dubai
12. Kuwait City
13. Singapore
14. Mumbai
15. Mecca
16. Jakarta
17. Hong Kong
18. Shenzhen
19. Guangzhou
20. Shanghai
21. Nanjing
22. Chongqing
23. Taipei
24. Shenyang
25. Tianjin
26. Beijing
27. Seoul
28. Busan
29. Wuhan
30. Wuxi
31. Los Angeles
32. Houston
33. Melbourne
34. Suzhou
35. Dalian
Coming up with these numbers will take a long time so be patient and I will post city's cumulative roof heights when I get them done. Thanks. Hope you enjoy the thread.