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DC and NYC are in the urban tier while Atlanta is in the suburban with a downtown office park tier. You can't really compare cities between these tiers.
THIS.
Atlanta is one large suburb. It lacks real walkable communities inside it's boundaries, even though it's boundaries are twice as large as DC. That's suburban by DC standards. Also density and walkability matter a great deal when comparing cities. If you are not a walkable city, you have no business comparing yourself to DC. With that being said, many of DC's suburbs are more urban and walkable than Atlanta. Seriously, Atlanta has no business comparing itself to DC.
It's so crazy for people to assume that all of Atlanta is like the suburbs of Atlanta. I don't know of any other city that gets that from anyone - even though they all have massive suburbia surrounding them.
Because Atlanta itself has the density of suburbia, it's just one big suburb, something DC definitely is not.
Atlanta is one large suburb. It lacks real walkable communities inside it's boundaries, even though it's boundaries are twice as large as DC. That's suburban by DC standards. Also density and walkability matter a great deal when comparing cities. If you are not a walkable city, you have no business comparing yourself to DC. With that being said, many of DC's suburbs are more urban and walkable than Atlanta. Seriously, Atlanta has no business comparing itself to DC.
See, that's the problem some people have - they have no idea what they're talking about. Atlanta lacks walkable communities? WRONG. Check some of the recent walkability studies that rank Atlanta pretty high in that respect...and you should really see for yourself before making such inaccurate, stereotypical comments.
Atlanta isn't "comparing itself" to anything. A member of city-data started this thread with a valid question. I'm sorry you are so offended by it.
Because Atlanta itself has the density of suburbia, it's just one big suburb, something DC definitely is not.
The built environment has more to do with walkability, and you apparently don't know much about Atlanta's built environment judging from your comments. There are very urban and dense parts of Atlanta...no city has uniform density throughout. You should look at downtown, Midtown, and the surrounding areas. They ARE NOT suburban. Even some suburbs have urban centers - much like DC.
LOL. This is a weird comparison. Atlanta's only comparisons with DC is that is that they dominate their region and they are top notch cities for Blacks....The city of DC is more like NYC and the suburbs are more like ATL. Culturally, DC isn't like either to me, it's Mid-Atlantic.
Atlanta is one large suburb. It lacks real walkable communities inside it's boundaries, even though it's boundaries are twice as large as DC. That's suburban by DC standards. Also density and walkability matter a great deal when comparing cities. If you are not a walkable city, you have no business comparing yourself to DC. With that being said, many of DC's suburbs are more urban and walkable than Atlanta. Seriously, Atlanta has no business comparing itself to DC.
Sonic the hedge hog is just spewing hyperbole once again. Please give us factual tangible evidence that brought you to the conclusion that Atlanta is one big suburb. DC is a great city but your comments about Atlanta not being able to compare to it is asinine. If you could get over your superiority complex you will see that both cities have things in common. DC is denser and faster paced than Atlanta but there are still similarities to be found.
Because Atlanta itself has the density of suburbia, it's just one big suburb, something DC definitely is not.
There are arguments worth engaging then there are just ignorant remarks not worth the time.This is all of the latter and then some.
So anyway Atlanta suburbs,especially in the North are very similar to D.C. in Virginia but not in Maryland as much.
D.C has some very green and leafy neighborhoods with hilly areas like Georgetown that remind me of parts of Atlanta.
Atlanta is one large suburb. It lacks real walkable communities inside it's boundaries, even though it's boundaries are twice as large as DC. That's suburban by DC standards. Also density and walkability matter a great deal when comparing cities. If you are not a walkable city, you have no business comparing yourself to DC. With that being said, many of DC's suburbs are more urban and walkable than Atlanta. Seriously, Atlanta has no business comparing itself to DC.
Suburban DC has way more in common with Atlanta, because they have many of the the same transplants from the northeast. Central DC does have more desnisty than Atlanta, so in that regard it would be more like NYC, in that both are equally more walkable than compared to Atlanta. Though downtown and midtown Atlanta are more walkable now than they used to be. You can walk most of midtown Atlanta and with the new streetcar in downtown Atlanta it fills in many of the holes where it would be otherwise impractical to walk.
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