[Colorado Photo of the Day]

Denver is an anomaly when it comes to Western U.S. cities. I don't know enough about the cities history to understand why it's developed the way it has. As I've said before. Without Denver, Colorado would just be another Wyoming.

I don't know that people in the west... places like Phoenix... are anti-growth. Clearly they are not. They are anti-urban... anti-density. Sad, but true. As the mayor of a Colorado Springs suburb once said. This is the west. We don't HAVE to live on top of eachother like they do back east. That's just the attitude out here.

Except in Denver for some reason.

Denver has a pretty rough history with their development. Quite a few periods way back in the day on 0 or negative growth in the downtoan area kept Denver from pretty much going haywire with high-rise. denver is pretty old though, goin back before colorado was a state (which btw I saw a interesting picture of the original entrance into the city with a cool gate that spanned acorss the street. Cant remember what it said, but.....interesting) Denver, as of right now, has a pretty nice skyline in comparison to other cities. Its not too hectic looking like NYC and Chicago and not too sparse like LA or Phoenix. If they keep building like crazy, that would change of course.