What is the best city skyline in the world?
Height, density and setting rarely peak in the same city, so the tallest skyline here is not automatically the best one.
1Hong KongVictoria Harbour framed by one of the densest clusters of towers on earth.
2New York CityTwo separate skylines — Midtown and Lower Manhattan — on one island.
3ChicagoThe city that invented the skyscraper, seen across Lake Michigan.
4ShanghaiThe Pudong towers rising straight out of the Huangpu, built almost entirely since 1990.
5ShenzhenMore towers above 150 metres than any other city, most of them younger than the people looking at them.
6SingaporeMarina Bay's engineered skyline, anchored by a hotel with a ship on the roof.
7DubaiMore supertall buildings than anywhere, and the tallest of them all in the middle.
8TokyoA skyline that goes on past the horizon in every direction, lit up all night.
9Kuala LumpurThe Petronas Towers and a downtown that grew around them.
10TorontoA wall of condo towers with the CN Tower spiking out of the middle.
11SydneyLess about height than about the Opera House and the Harbour Bridge in the same frame.
12SeoulTowers packed against the Han River with mountains standing directly behind them.
13LondonA low historic city interrupted by a cluster of oddly nicknamed towers.
14GuangzhouThe Canton Tower and Zhujiang New Town facing each other across the Pearl River.
15Panama CityThe most vertical skyline in Latin America, packed onto a strip of Pacific coast.
16San FranciscoA compact downtown behind hills, bridges and fog.
17DohaWest Bay's towers rising out of the desert on a single crescent of waterfront.
18MelbourneA dense southern-hemisphere downtown wrapped around the Yarra.
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Skylines here all descend from one ten-storey block on LaSalle Street, 138 feet tall, which carried its weight on a metal frame in 1885: https://youpick.best/articles/chicago-ranked-many-ways
