The skyline/landscape of Texas looks like shyt

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[Space Cowboy]

Chicago and nyc have the best skyline in the western hemisphere

Going out on a bad day to the Brooklyn Bridge park and staring at the Brooklyn Bridge and Manhattan city skyline while eating ice cream from that shop near the water…







that last one is Manhattan Bridge but you get the point

 

[DonB90]

Will sunbelt sprawl towns ever be real cities is the question?

I'm thinking no unfortunately

 

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[DonFrancisco]

Houston the 4th biggest city in America and is on track to pass Chicago and become the 3rd biggest....

This is the Houston skyline

Compare it to Chicago's skyline

I don't care how big Houston gets......it will never be a big city like Chicago, LA or NYC

I agree.... Houston needs to adopt the Land use policies of Chicago and NYC. COL depends on density and Houston is way less dense than Chicago but COL has damn near caught with Chicago. Imagine being more populated than Chicago....the COL will be unbearably bad. This why I'm saving and cutting expenses to buy a house to live, fix, then rent in the future. Mortgages will be near Chicago levels in near future.

 

[Spade]

Will sunbelt sprawl towns ever be real cities is the question?

I'm thinking no unfortunately

No because the sunbelt cities and American suburbia is to car centric. You get them to not build development around the car and they will have a seizure. Until that mindset changes, sprawl will continue to happen.

Funny thing about Houston is that zero percent of the city is zoned for single family. So they can build more mixed use increasing the density as well as getting rid of another major sprawl friendly policy called parking minimums.

 

[Spade]

I agree.... Houston needs to adopt the Land use policies of Chicago and NYC. COL depends on density and Houston is way less dense than Chicago but COL has damn near caught with Chicago. Imagine being more populated than Chicago....the COL will be unbearably bad. This why I'm saving and cutting expenses to buy a house to live, fix, then rent in the future. Mortgages will be near Chicago levels in near future.

i would say it’s already higher in Houston because of the added addition of a vehicle. That’s basically the best way without viable options to get around a city with extra costs such as gas, maintenance, parking, etc. At least in Chicago you have options to get around other than a car.

 

[WIA20XX]

Funny thing about Houston is that zero percent of the city is zoned for single family.

A lot of master planned communities and deed restrictions/land covenants (and a lot of those covenants were racial. Even when invalidated the neighborhoods were already built).

So private law, aka contracts, governs where public law aka zoning, does not.

This video gets into it

Add in stuff like

• Minimum Parking Requirements
• Minimum Set Backs
• Minimum lot size (the old 5000 Sq FT is why the old neighborhoods have low density. The new 1400 sq ft is why there are those townhouses in EaDo)

Add in a "preference" for cars, and the road design and parking lot minimums just make it spread and spread and spread.

Houston is not this libertarian free for all that folks make it out to be.

Instead, like most of Texas, "freedom" is very much controlled by rich elites - oil men, cattle barons, and insurance companies. Even diverse Houston.

 

[Vandelay]

Would love this. The beaches are shrinking every year and I don't know how.

 

[Vandelay]

Only been to Houston once and I love the people, but they're pulling a massive charade in saying it's a city.

EDIT: Confirmed...it's half the size of fukking Rhode Island. If Harris County don't get the fukk outta here...

 

[Spade]

A lot of master planned communities and deed restrictions/land covenants (and a lot of those covenants were racial. Even when invalidated the neighborhoods were already built).

So private law, aka contracts, governs where public law aka zoning, does not.

This video gets into it

Add in stuff like

• Minimum Parking Requirements
• Minimum Set Backs
• Minimum lot size (the old 5000 Sq FT is why the old neighborhoods have low density. The new 1400 sq ft is why there are those townhouses in EaDo)

Add in a "preference" for cars, and the road design and parking lot minimums just make it spread and spread and spread.

Houston is not this libertarian free for all that folks make it out to be.

Instead, like most of Texas, "freedom" is very much controlled by rich elites - oil men, cattle barons, and insurance companies. Even diverse Houston.

You right. Forgot to mention the deed restrictions.

 

[FLORIDA BOI]

I went to Dallas last year , yes it looks like trash.

 

[beenz]

Houston the 4th biggest city in America and is on track to pass Chicago and become the 3rd biggest....

This is the Houston skyline

Compare it to Chicago's skyline

I don't care how big Houston gets......it will never be a big city like Chicago, LA or NYC

the ONLY US cities that have impressive skylines in the united states are NYC and Chicago. that's it.

 

[beenz]

At 665 square miles, the City of Houston is larger than the cities of Chicago, Dallas, Los Angeles, New York, Phoenix and San Diego.


Urban sprawl sucks

that's disgusting.

I believe jacksonville is even worse at like 900 square miles.

 

[ROFL_GUY]

the ONLY US cities that have impressive skylines in the united states are NYC and Chicago. that's it.

SF