Urban Panoramas

The first picture are from atop a building in Memphis, Tennessee. The second two pictures are from the acropolis in Athens, Greece.

One of the most obvious comparisons are the importance (or even presence!) of sky scrapers in Memphis over Athens. For cities in the United States that sprouted during a time when skyscrapers were possible, they shape the landscape in an almost all-encompassing way. For Athens, which has been developing for over 2000 years, the ability to build sky scrapers is impossible in a city that has been dominated by one or two level houses for the majority of its lifetime. I would feel that this trend occurs over a lot of European cities. Low-laying cities dominated by one or two story buildings versus the skylines of Memphis, New York City, or any other major city in the United States dominated by sky scrapers.