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Wow really? That is hilarious. East Coast posters want so bad to find a reason why LA is not in their city's league. They fail every time.
Yeah, Los Angeles' densest areas are actually quite dense over a very large area. I think people keep thinking that LA is 1950s suburban San Fernando Valley or something like that, when in reality LA is a massive urban area.
Only New York surpasses LA as far as the the sum of areas that are 10,000+ppsm.
I would say NYC, SF, DC, Chicago in no particular order. People saying LA & Philly must be joking.
Structurally, Philly is one of the densest cities in this country. If it wasn't so busted up and blighted and was nearly full, the city would be over 2 million people with an average density very close to SF and that's with an area 3 times as large.
Stay in your lane Skippy. Philadelphia is 13 miles N-S. 8 Miles E-W. Basically uninterrupted urban density. hard core old scool urban density not the faux DC urban density.
DC has the third largest downtown in America in terms of miles it goes. It also has the third most amount of office space in the country. Both ahead of Philly
Here you go again, using common sense. Did you forget where you are?
Ummm......
Could you explain what urbanity means? I'm pretty sure natural, outdoor, forest, river's, and open space are not going to be included in the definition. In fact, those things are normally added into urban environments as an ESCAPE from the urban jungle. They don't create it. They grant a reprieve from it. I don't expect people on here to be experts but these concepts aren't that hard.
Structurally, Philly is one of the densest cities in this country. If it wasn't so busted up and blighted and was nearly full, the city would be over 2 million people with an average density very close to SF and that's with an area 3 times as large.
I agree at the city level Philly is number three, however, from an intensity level going from highest to lowest, Philly drops well below NYC, Chicago, San Fran, and D.C. after Center City which is rather small. Is Center City the third most urban downtown in the country? I think so. It just isn't very big and after you leave that small area, there isn't much of a middle level urbanity. You have the urban giant in Center City straight to the 2-3 level row homes. There is no couple mile transition into 6-9 story apartment buildings like you get in NYC, Chicago, San Fran, and D.C. before you hit rowhomes consistently. Pockets of rowhomes is fine, but an aerial picture of Philly speaks volumes on the drop off of vertical intense development.
If pedestrian activity is heavily weighted, LA does really well and I'd put it near the top of the list - all the neighborhoods around DTLA are very active with pedestrians (though yes they are lower income and more immigrants than other cities, I don't see why this matters unless you are sorta racist). However if we are weighting this more by how pedestrian friendly things look can see LA more in the 5-7 range.
Michvegas must have a thing against Latino immigrants or something cus he keeps attributing LAs strong density numbers and large pedestrian population in central and downtown. Apparently all that pedestrian traffic is due to some "ghetto" swap meet according to his last post. Also he calls the areas undesirable but mentions that SFs Chinatown is somehow way more desirable and is thus exempt from the same criticism.
There are just way too many biases against LA. I mentioned earlier that LA reminds me of a mix of an South Asian city like Manilla and a Latin Americaj city like Mexico City not a traditional American gothic city like Chicago, NYC or Philly. He then claimed that Mexico City isn't urban enough!! Mexico freaking city? One of the major mega cities in this world and it's not urban enough?
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