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I think it's still Portland now. Atlanta's made a lot of improvements in the five years since this topic was made, but Portland has as well. In that five year time period, Portland has added slightly more people to its very comparable city limits as Atlanta has and Portland's added housing is mostly in terms of dense transit oriented development.
In regards to mass transit, Portland's completed its second streetcar line since then while Atlanta has also added one (its first). Portland also opened up a new light rail line that added 7.3 miles in track with ten new stations which does a lot in making its light rail network much more comprehensive (not exactly relevant, but this expansion also came in under budget and opened early which is crazy for a US transit project).
Meanwhile, a lot of the other categories the OP listed were in Portland's favor in 2011 probably still are. I think maybe Atlanta in 2016 is much closer to Portland in 2011 than Atlanta in 2011 was, but Portland in 2016 versus Atlanta in 2016 still favors Portland overall in the categories the OP listed.
Also, someone mentioned an Atlanta versus Inner Loop Houston thread. That would be interesting!
Last edited by OyCrumbler; 10-08-2016 at 03:53 PM..
I think it's still Portland now. Atlanta's made a lot of improvements in the five years since this topic was made, but Portland has as well. In that five year time period, Portland has added slightly more people to its very comparable city limits as Atlanta has and Portland's added housing is mostly in terms of dense transit oriented development.
In regards to mass transit, Portland's completed its second streetcar line since then while Atlanta has also added one (its first). Portland also opened up a new light rail line that added 7.3 miles in track with ten new stations which does a lot in making its light rail network much more comprehensive (not exactly relevant, but this expansion also came in under budget and opened early which is crazy for a US transit project).
Meanwhile, a lot of the other categories the OP listed were in Portland's favor in 2011 probably still are. I think maybe Atlanta in 2016 is much closer to Portland in 2011 than Atlanta in 2011 was, but Portland in 2016 versus Atlanta in 2016 still favors Portland overall in the categories the OP listed.
Also, someone mentioned an Atlanta versus Inner Loop Houston thread. That would be interesting!
I think you have posted a very Portland-oriented opinion (I know I did the same earlier because I don't know a lot about Portland) without much real information about the massive growth of multi-family housing in Atlanta. You seem to give Portland a lot of credit in some of the categories where Atlanta has excelled. I recently saw an article that placed Atlanta as one of the top growth cities for multi-family and the TOD oriented growth has really boomed as well. Residential growth in the city-limits has mostly focused on multi-family and much of it is in the form of high and mid rise. The infill occurring in the city is amazing, and compared to Portland it had a lot more room for improvement.
It's hard to compare two cities when you know a lot about one and very little about the other, but I know that Portland started out at a higher point than Atlanta, but I am very confident that Atlanta has hit a boom of such proportion that it should have caught up with Portland in building density and urbanity. I guess we should both probably learn more about the other city in order to make a more valid assessment.
I am very confident that Atlanta has hit a boom of such proportion that it should have caught up with Portland in building density and urbanity. I guess we should both probably learn more about the other city in order to make a more valid assessment.
Atlanta has made improvements, but I don't think it's quite there yet.
Atlanta is building density on a larger scale, but with way more parking.
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