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Lots of house in the NYC boroughs and New Joisey have parking spaces in place of front yards. I agree it does look kind of tacky. I don't think I've seen any of this in Chicago. I've been to Chicago a couple of times but most of what I know about the neighborhoods is from picture threads and the google street-view (love that street-view).
tI would say that in general, the Midwest and Northeast have the most interesting architecture. Large Midwest cities and Northeast ones I would say have very classic, stylish architecture architecturally that the south and west just can't matchi. With regards to St. Louis, no city in the Midwest has an answer to the Arch. That IMO is architecture at its most stunning. How they built it and got it to stand was a truly amazing feat of engineering. St. Louis' bridges over the river, its large mixture of frame and brick, etc. is pretty interesting. Not to mention, many of its Catholic churches have a Gothic look and feel to them, similar to many in the Midwest. All those factories and steel mills along the river make it interesting too.
Don't want to derail the thread but I do that the South edges out the Midwest when it comes to residential architecture. Overall architecture, sure the Midwest has it but don't count out the Atlantic South and the Gulf Coastal South.
I made a thread a long time ago about rowhouse cities and since then, I've actually had the pleasure of going to some of the more historic inner city areas of the South. I'll probably make a thread on it.
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Id like to see some pictures of the quality, quantity and variety of st Louis residential architecture that people are so convinced is superior to Chicago. Not being snarky here..genuinely curious
Cincinnati and St. Louis have the most awesome residential architecture in the Midwest because they're heavily inspired by the architecture in Pennsylvania and Maryland.
i have spent time in both of those places...and I've seen areas of Chicago with just as nice rowhomes, but not always "as far as the eye can see!"...what I am trying to say, that people aren't getting, is that Chicago has the ability to offer even more variety than row homes as far as the eye can see...it offers row homes, but it also has much more. obviously philly has a larger quanity/better stock of strict row homes than Chicago, but again, this isnt a "which city has the best rowhomes" thread, and this isn't even a thread about the Northeast. It's about residential architecture. Show me something in St. Louis that offers this view from an apartment...no, you don't have to sit on the ledge of the balcony like these insane kids did http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2606/...a234f4dc_o.jpg
Got to love Chicago. It's size and variety and big city DNA is all one needs to enjoy.
Chicago by a considerable margin.
I realize STL and CIN have great architecture but for me I care for each regions most varied and energetic large cities, which for the Midwest is Chicago and SF for the west.
Id like to see some pictures of the quality, quantity and variety of st Louis residential architecture that people are so convinced is superior to Chicago. Not being snarky here..genuinely curious
Right now, St. Louis has 28 votes against Chicago's 33 votes.
That picture on the Chicago high rise was just WOW! That's something you can only expect from NYC but I guess not anymore.
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