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A tier of its own, where you'll find obscenely crowded
sidewalks in all corners of the city.
NYC
Tier 2
Gigantic seamless walkable areas with intense, 3-Dimensional centers of commerce and residential density. Its also where you'll find generous amounts of people walking through residential side streets as part of their commute.
Geographically smaller areas of commercial intensity, sometimes resembling tier 2 (Downtown Portland, Miami Beach, French Quarter), or disjointed linear areas with noticeable commercial intensity (Los Angeles)....Vancouver I'm torn with, certainly feels like tier 2 within the downtown penninsula, but its so geographically small, and there is only a handful of areas outside of it.
Seattle, Portland, Los Angeles, Vancouver, New Orleans, Miami, Vegas (Baltimore?)
Tier 4
Similar to the previous tier, but not quite as intense, or geographically large.
A tier of its own, where you'll find obscenely crowded
sidewalks in all corners of the city.
NYC
Tier 2
Gigantic seamless walkable areas with intense, 3-Dimensional centers of commerce and residential density. Its also where you'll find generous amounts of people walking through residential side streets as part of their commute.
Geographically smaller areas of commercial intensity, sometimes resembling tier 2 (Downtown Portland, Miami Beach, French Quarter), or disjointed linear areas with noticeable commercial intensity (Los Angeles)....Vancouver I'm torn with, certainly feels like tier 2 within the downtown penninsula, but its so geographically small, and there is only a handful of areas outside of it.
Seattle, Portland, Los Angeles, Vancouver, New Orleans, Miami, Vegas (Baltimore?)
Tier 4
Similar to the previous tier, but not quite as intense, or geographically large.
Yeah I agree with this list - though with the general momentum alternative transportation (cycling, walking, PT) has had all over the US and Canada, I wouldn't be surprised to see Tier 4 cities start to creep up into Tier 3 and Tier 3 cities start to creep up to Tier 2. NYC is way to far ahead of the Tier 2 cities for them to approach that level of street activity anytime soon.
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