Seattle Skyline Ranked 37th by Heartless Monsters

Yesterday Chicagoist posted a study ranking the worlds skylines that is apparently based on the number of floors in the buildings downtown. Chicago ranked fourth, which seems a little generous. New York placed a distant second. Here are all the cities of the Gothamist network, compliments of Chicagoist:

2. New York
4. Chicago
10. Toronto
20. Los Angeles
23. London
32. San Francisco
37. Seattle
43. Boston

Austin and Washington DC didn't rank in the top 100 skylines in the world.

Now, Seattlest would like for you to look at that list with a couple of things in mind. First, if you adjust for population (they list Seattle's at 569,101) we have the best "skyline per capita" in the network, and in fact there are only three cities ranked above us with lower populations: Honolulu, Makati and Atlanta. Second, we don't care what any number-crunching eggheads and their fancy computing devices have to say about population, area, floor count and skylines. Qualitativly, we think we are up there with the world's best, maybe not first, but definitely not 37th. We have stated this opinion before.