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Philadelphia is one of my favorite cities, but like you said, I just don't think it should be compared to NYC/Chicago. It just doesn't belong in this thread. Similarities about aesthetics may be made, especially the early 20th century architecture, but there really isn't much else, IMO.
But that's the point. By layout of the city, architecture you could argue Philadelphia is more similar to NYC than Chicago.
Anyhow, this has been done to death. I think downtown Chicago is much more different from Manhattan than the OP thinks. But what boundaries is the OP using for downtown Chicago?
Btw, there's no reason to use all of Manhattan. It makes more sense to use Manhattan say, south of 59th street, which has similar area (9 square miles) to your "Downtown Chicago" and functions as a greater downtown area.
Anyhow, this has been done to death. I think downtown Chicago is much more different from Manhattan than the OP thinks. But what boundaries is the OP using for downtown Chicago?
Btw, there's no reason to use all of Manhattan. It makes more sense to use Manhattan say, south of 59th street, which has similar area (9 square miles) to your "Downtown Chicago" and functions as a greater downtown area.
I just got back from Chicago a few weeks ago. While it is certainly very urban and the second best downtown in our country, it doesn't remind me of a mini-Manhattan. More like an ultra-size version of other city's downtown areas.
I just got back from Chicago a few weeks ago. While it is certainly very urban and the second best downtown in our country, it doesn't remind me of a mini-Manhattan. More like an ultra-size version of other city's downtown areas.
Maybe. I'd say a more intense, crowded version of Boston's downtown would be like Lower Manhattan not Chicago. North End = mini-Lower East Side.
Philly, Boston and SF have the more intimate small-block and business signage feel of NYC. Chicago is more handsome and ordered, but yet has that grand, spectacle-like feeling of NYC, and the only city with a comparable wall of pre-war skyscrapers to match.
This question is like asking: "Which is more similar to purple: Red or Blue?" How do you answer that. I just take every downtown as it is.
These threads suck... Stop it Chicago people, it is not a mini new york or manhattan, great city yes, but not like New York. Closer than any city in the world? Seriously? Boston and Philly feel more like mini NYC's than Chicago though, not that they are bigger than Chicago in the downtown area, but aesthetically and culturally they are more similar. Chicago is it's own style.
Chicago is more like a giant Seattle than it is like a smaller NYC. Similar layout both with nice downtown areas, Chicago's is just much bigger but the style, cleanliness, good waterfront usage, similar ferris wheel, light fixtures are somewhat similar.
Seattle downtown..
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Chicago downtown looks more like this and is more spread out for the most part.
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Then you have NYC... obviously way way bigger.
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and Downtown chicago doesn't have a bunch of elevation or curved more narrow streets like lower manhattan
Chicago does not look like this
I'm sorry I've lived in Boston, and in no way even in the North end did it ever feel like anything in NYC, Boston is just way too small, and even in its most urban sections it had a sort of "cute" and "quaint" feel to it.
I'm sorry I've lived in Boston, and in no way even in the North end did it ever feel like anything in NYC, Boston is just way too small, and even in its most urban sections it had a sort of "cute" and "quaint" feel to it.
I agree (and have lived in Boston too), but I think NEI was saying that if you super-sized Boston, it would be more similar to NYC than it would be to Chicago.
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