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I don't believe you can easily find a parking spot in DT DC! That's some str8 bs.
Believe what you want, Im telling you from my own experience. I drive into downtown at least 2x a week to visit customers, driving 100% of the time, never had an issue parking.
At street level, how are Manhattan and D.C. different in their downtown's other than there being less people? Both have urban canyons for miles and grand boulevards without surface street parking.
You are making a terrible mistake here. Downtown DC is a lot like Chicago's Loop. It's a very impersonal, full of offices and people in suits.
Manhattan is NOT like that. Midtown, at least, is FULL of high end retail, theater district, restaurants, bars, nightclubs meshed in a business district. Manhattan does not give that impersonal corporate feel like DC and Chicago does. Center City is more similar to Manhattan than DC is...I've been to all 3, and its true.
They don't call Center City a mini-Manhattan for no reason.
DC has miles of office canyons block after block, something Philly does not have. Only NYC and Chicago have this.
What is wrong with you?
From Locust to Arch Streets is a continuous urban canyon from 2nd Street to 40th.
4 Miles from E-W and 1 - 1 1/2 miles from N-S.
Walnut Street 18th Street looking East towards 2nd St. If tou turned around you would have the same view looking West towards University City which ends around 45th Street. An interrupted stretch of buildings ranging from 100' to 500'.
From Locust to Arch Streets is a continuous urban canyon from 2nd Street to 40th.
4 Miles from E-W and 1 - 1 1/2 miles from N-S.
Walnut Street 18th Street looking East towards 2nd St. If tou turned around you would have the same view looking West towards University City which ends around 45th Street. An interrupted stretch of buildings ranging from 100' to 500'.
Look, I love Philadelphia. This thread is only in fun for comparison on this lovely city stat site we all love. However, center city isn't even in the same breath as NYC or D.C. when it comes to urban canyons. If people want to say center city is more vibrant than downtown DC, that's another conversation but center city is not an urban canyon downtown. It's not big enough.
Rules for urban canyons:
-you can't have two or three story buildings downtown
-you can't have a lot of surface parking lots
-you can't break street level development at eye level meaning buildings need to be built high enough that they are out of eye level
-possess multiple streets north, south, east, and west of the center of downtown with continuance development at street level
Buildings all have to be tall enough that at street level they connect at eye view. I know you thought by showing the center most built up part of center city, you would prove Philly has urban canyons but it doesn't for the most part. Two streets north and south of that picture don't have urban canyons. Philly has a lot of two to four story buildings in and around center city and a lot of surface parking.
Here are a few examples in Philly that show the lack of urban canyons downtown
Nah, MD is ok! Why do people have problem with MD hyping up DC? Philly bammas do it every other thread. They are just upset because he constantly sh&ts on them with his facts. And when I see post claiming that DT DC is suburban, I tend to laugh. DC has miles of office canyons block after block, something Philly does not have. Only NYC and Chicago have this.
Anyway you slice it, DT DC is growing at an enormous rate and it kills tiny CC. DT DC will soon surpass the Loop. What puzzels me is that, you people keep harping on vibrancy. If DT DC is not vibrant, why is parking such a major issue on nights and weekends DT?
You have no idea what you are talking about. You are almost as delusional as durf lol.
Nobody's delusional! CC has a tiny foot print. DC does in fact have miles of office canyons. Are you still upset that Philly people come to DC to party on the weekends? You have to get over that son!
Office canyons? Who cares? In what way is DT DC superior to CC Philly?
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