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The built environment of Columbus, Ohio and its suburbs resemble a Sunbelt city a lot more than its rusty, post industrial neighbors like Cleveland, Toledo, Akron, etc. The architecture is decidedly modern and the area has a lot of modern freeways, office parks and newer subdivisions. But Columbus is still a Northern/Midwest city with bitterly cold and gray winters.
I've not sure if Washington DC and Northern Virginia count as the snowbelt but that area physically looks kind of like Charlotte or Atlanta (excluding historic DC of course) despite being culturally and politically Northeastern. Nearby Baltimore has a complete Rust Belt feeling. At least being from the Deep South, I find winters there to be very long and brutal.
The Tri-Cities of WA have the whole "massive suburb" thing going on. MSA population of 311k and there's no real downtown or urbanity at all --- just the three "small town" style downtowns, each one maybe two blocks long.
2)Miami-New York (lots of New Yorkers in Miami plus they're both confined to small portions of land giving them their building up pattern)
NYC is "confined to small portions of land??" Since when?
I suggest you fly into NYC and look out the window during approach. It's a massive urban blob. The complete opposite of Miami, which pops up out of nowhere when approaching from the West.
As for building patterns, I still don't see any similarities. I'm assuming you're going by Downtown/Brickell vs Midtown Manhattan? I still don't see it. There are tall buildings. That's pretty much it. Miami's building up pattern is confined to a narrow strip along its shorelines. The rest of the city is low, dominated by SF houses and two-story apartment complexes. NYC is nothing like that, anywhere.
Indianapolis is very sprawling and is the hub of several interstate spokes. This represents the worst of what many sunbelt cities have to offer
Depends on which part of Indy metro.
Some of the areas in the city (i.e. south of downtown in that "industrial wasteland" plus some areas east and west of downtown) is very rust belt feel and is really rundown.
On the other hand, you can put Hamilton County next to DFW and it'll fit right in. Giant ~1mi x 1mi super block form by arterials with sprawling cul-de-sac neighborhood filling in the middle. Add in Geist Reservoir being not too different from the gajillion lake in the northern part of DFW metroplex...
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