What city has the most variation?

[Dncr]

Everywhere? No city has a uniform housing stock across the entire city. San Francisco has come closest from what I've seen, but even then, there is still plenty of variation.

[HtownLove]

Originally Posted by Dncr

Everywhere? No city has a uniform housing stock across the entire city. San Francisco has come closest from what I've seen, but even then, there is still plenty of variation.

I agree with you for a change. although I think that you and everyone else are confusing the OP's intentions.

I don't think he means what cities offer a range of different housing options, I think he means what cities have neighborhoods that are strickingly different from each other.

look at his posts:

Originally Posted by Nineties Flava

In other words, what city has the most variation to the point where you could look at multiple neighborhoods of a single city and think they all belonged to different cities? Also, does variation make it difficult for a city to have an identity (ie is it better to be homogenized)?

Originally Posted by Nineties Flava

I would actually say a city like Chicago probably has more variation than Los Angeles. In Chicago you get the extremely dense urbanity that LA somewhat lacks but you also get the burbs and the boondocks. In terms of housing stock Chicago is incredibly diverse... you could also think you're in a different city given that the city is fairly segregated so the denizens of one part of town will likely be different than in another.

[Nineties Flava]

Originally Posted by HtownLove

I agree with you for a change. although I think that you and everyone else are confusing the OP's intentions.

I don't think he means what cities offer a range of different housing options, I think he means what cities have neighborhoods that are strickingly different from each other.

look at his posts:

Wow... amazing. Someone actually knew what I meant


lol yea basically what you said

[HtownLove]

I understood what you meant from the get go, I assumed people would stop talking about Houses eventually, but came back and they were still at it.

I think every city has at least one or two areas that look and feel completely different from the rest of the city.

either it is a chinatown, or an area that is more dense than the others or more hip, or more rich.
It is crazy going through chinatown here and seeing the street signs in different languages, or the different styled buildings. Or wondering through the slums of the the third ward and all of a sudden coming across a neighborhood with million dollar houses. Or the different styles of university villages.

I think every city has these outta the ordinary spots that make them feel different from the rest of the city