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Skylines History 1920-2007
by Egbert Gramsbergen and Paul Kazmierczak

Currently, we have only cities in North America, Europe and some of the Middle East and Australia in this list. We hope to cover other countries in 2008.
Only cities with at least 1000 skyline points in 2007 are included. Only buildings at least 90m high are counted.

bars represent decades from 1920 (left) to 2007 (right)
cityskyline points# buildingsmax height
[click on city name to see details | move your mouse over the bars to see years]
New York
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Dubai
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Chicago
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Toronto
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Moscow
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Miami
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Sydney
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Houston
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Los Angeles
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Atlanta
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San Francisco
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Las Vegas
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Dallas
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Paris
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Philadelphia
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Istanbul
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Calgary
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Boston
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Seattle
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Brisbane
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London
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Franfurt
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Vancouver
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Montreal
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Minneapolis
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Tel Aviv
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Honolulu
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Denver
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Detroit
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Pittsburgh
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Cairo
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Sunny Isles Beach
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created: 2006-08-30
last update: 2007-09-04