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The point was he picked that area to make a point, while overlooking plenty of areas equidistant from the core of Atlanta that aren't like that. His argument therefore is on shaky ground by pointing out an anomaly. This doesn't mean that LA isn't more urban than Atlanta, I definitely think it is, but using poor examples doesn't help the argument.
I agree and it seems like there are better neighborhoods to use.
This is more what I think of with Atlanta (inner neighborhoods):
The most obvious answer is San Diego, it's only 80 or so miles from Los Angeles and has many of the same characteristics except being smaller and a little more laid-back.
Las Vegas and Phoenix would be next in line, both cities have many transplants from the Los Angeles area, and there is certainly a spillover of southern California culture in both Phoenix and Vegas.
The point was he picked that area to make a point, while overlooking plenty of areas equidistant from the core of Atlanta that aren't like that. His argument therefore is on shaky ground by pointing out an anomaly. This doesn't mean that LA isn't more urban than Atlanta, I definitely think it is, but using poor examples doesn't help the argument.
Umm, I was using an example of a neighborhood right outside of Atlanta's CBD and comparing it to what LA looks like right outside the CBD. You are taking what I'm saying out of context.
Westlake(In LA) is a gritty urban neighborhood like Bankhead is in Atlanta. Westlake just looks alot more built-up and denser than Bankhead is. Bankhead felt like "the country" to me when I was over there.
The most obvious answer is San Diego, it's only 80 or so miles from Los Angeles and has many of the same characteristics except being smaller and a little more laid-back.
Las Vegas and Phoenix would be next in line, both cities have many transplants from the Los Angeles area, and there is certainly a spillover of southern California culture in both Phoenix and Vegas.
Miami has similar architecture characteristics to South Los Angeles. The military presence in San Diego gives it a different, more middle American "vibe'' than the cosmopolitan flair of LA. San Diego overlaps with the South Bay in the "Middle of the Road" America mindset.
That's the word on the street. I have some friends that live in the South Bay and have for a while - for a place that is mostly just dense suburbia I actually kinda like it.
I am going to Dubai next month and just booked my ticket earlier this morning for a week in Dubai and a week in Auckland with my wife. I was looking at some pics and it looks like the fashion, glitz, glamour, entertainment, tourism, cruises, res islands, elevated rail, income disparity, etc of Miami, with the highways, sprawl, industry, wealth, airport, medicine, growth, oil, port, and demographics (closest to) of Houston, and the desert, heat, sand, weather, climate, dust storms, vegetation, etc of Phoenix. You could even throw Las Vegas in with those 3 and they = Dubai.
Density doesn't have to be everything but it should be relatively dense. I bet there are areas in the Valley that look a lot like Phoenix, so I do perhaps take that back. Houston and Atlanta have too much of a Gulf Coast or Southern vibe to really match up well with LA to me.
Houston has the grid and infrastructure bones like a mini LA. The setup is kind of like LA outside of you know, weather, topography, etc. But it is much closer to LA than Atlanta is. Atlanta is not even built up like Houston much less LA.
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