Submersion

Beauty Sleep - Rachel Parker

American , b. ?

Largest and smallest dog at a dog show, January 26, 1923.

The glow of a pre-dawn atomic test, Fremont St, Las Vegas, 1955. Operation Teapot circa Feb-Mar '55. The building with the Pioneer Club rooftop sign was demolished March '55.

The hues of the rainforest

How old is your city’s skyline? (US and Canada)

The bar chart above each city represents the distribution of a city’s tallest buildings by the year in which it was built. If the chart is mostly brown or red then the city’s tallest buildings are pretty old. If it is blue or purple then the tallest buildings are a lot newer. If it has a spike in a certain color, say, yellow, then most of that city’s skyscrapers were built in that decade.

I tried to include every city that has a notable skyline. If your city isn’t here, feel free to share what era its skyscrapers are mostly from.

The map shows that a lot of smaller American cities have pretty dated skylines, especially in the rust belt. The contrast between the two sides of Lake Ontario and Erie could not be more stark. Some American ones are growing just as fast - such as Austin, Nashville, Charlotte, Seattle, Raleigh, Tampa, and New York City.

Sources: Wikipedia and SkyscraperPage (whichever one lists more buildings), various sources for buildings under construction