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Skyscrapers are included if they're apartment buildings. Otherwise, this is limited to apartment complexes, rowhouses, single-family homes, etc. What city has the widest variety of housing styles to pick from?
Im in the biz, so I have pondered this for years. California in general has the most diverse housing stock in the nation. Part of it is that the climate is such that you can create any environment you wish. Southern California is the nexus of single family residential architecture in the US and has been for many decades, generally the trends start there and spread across the country. Within the state I would pick the Bay Area over LA or SD, because in the Bay Area you have every imaginable architectural style and its appropriate landscaping, but you also have all the urban options as well. When you look at housing, you have to consider all the different types. Single family both production and custom, multifamily of all types, highrise. Many cities have all these options, but California and the Bay Area produce more variety.
Im in the biz, so I have pondered this for years. California in general has the most diverse housing stock in the nation. Part of it is that the climate is such that you can create any environment you wish. Southern California is the nexus of single family residential architecture in the US and has been for many decades, generally the trends start there and spread across the country. Within the state I would pick the Bay Area over LA or SD, because in the Bay Area you have every imaginable architectural style and its appropriate landscaping, but you also have all the urban options as well. When you look at housing, you have to consider all the different types. Single family both production and custom, multifamily of all types, highrise. Many cities have all these options, but California and the Bay Area produce more variety.
There's also a lot of architectural diversity in the PNW, namely in Portland and Seattle.
I agree that there's a lot of architectural diversity here in the bay area. However, not *all* of the Bay Area is architecturally diverse (cough - Cupertino, Sunnyvale - cough). The big cities however have very diverse housing stock.
One minute you feel like you're in Brooklyn, the next thing you know you'd swear up and down you're in Atlanta. Then if you go to certain neighborhoods yo could mistake it for something in the midwest.
One minute you feel like you're in Brooklyn, the next thing you know you'd swear up and down you're in Atlanta. Then if you go to certain neighborhoods yo could mistake it for something in the midwest.
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