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This thread is pretty ignorant, btw. Why not ask which city is the most gentrified?
not the same thing. that's more asking about the size and population of the ghetto. this question is about the quality of the ghetto itself regardless how large it is.
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I was GLAD Chicago was not listed. But its mention as still concrete jungles of ghetto. Got me to comment. Don't get me wrong..... still high-crime and Gang violence. Bit on APPEARENCE not typical war zone looking GHETTO'S. As at one time many were. The 60s into 70s turmoil was awful in once vibrant neighborhoods.
For QUALITY OF HOUSING in BAD NEIGHBOHOODS LABELED (at least at one time GHETTO'S) I give to CHICAGO NOT ON THE LIST. NYC ISN'T EITHER.
Chicago DEMOLISHED ALL ITS NORTORIOUS HOUSING PROJECTS. Under the last Mayor. THE WORST OF BLIGHT IN NORTORIOUS NEIGHBOHOODS..... has been REMOVED. Many lots and blocks returned to PRAIRIE.
Why I say in QUALITY housing? Is These neighborhoods are SINGLE HOMES WITH SEPARATION AND FRONT GREEN SPACE and wider streets. North Philly is virtually all tight Row homes in degrees of need many blocks no green or trees or little...... on many narrow streets.
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This is Sooo True, Atlanta is not your Typical City when it comes to the inner city. It's very green and less dense in some area's and a lot of the City looks like a Suburb not that it doesnt have some Dense areas. You can't even compair it to an Inner City New York, Chicago, Boston, Philly, Baltimore, etc... In those cities you can tell the Ghetto when you see it, the City is more Concrete and the suburbs are the major green areas in those cities. In Atlanta the Ghetto Can fool you in both the City and the Suburbs. You will think your in a Nice decent Neighborhood or Apt. Complex by day when every one is at work and by Night the Area becomes a War Zone. You have to actually know the areas to move to when your dealing with ATL Metro. Cant say much about Houston, never been there but its seems low dense like Atlanta.
AGAIN... CHICAGO is NOT a TIGHT ROW HOUSE CITY LIKE Philly, Baltimore and a lesser extent Boston and NYC. Chicago wisely under its last Mayor. CLEARED OUT THE WORST OF THE BLIGHT. CREATING LOTS AND BLOCKS RETURNING TO PRAIRIE.
EXAMPLES Are here in the East and West Garfield , Austin and South Austin neighborhoods and North and South Lawndale neighborhoods. Notice wide street and green set-backs to the existing homes.
All the listed cities are known for the black population and we're sitting up here entertaining the idea of them being ghetto. Three of them home to some of the wealthiest black communities in the country.
Yep, nothing offensive about this thread at all. Carry on.
All the listed cities are known for the black population and we're sitting up here entertaining the idea of them being ghetto. Three of them home to some of the wealthiest black communities in the country.
Yep, nothing offensive about this thread at all. Carry on.
Someone needs to lighten up. There are many stupid threads on this site - this is just one of them. I wouldn't let it offend me in the least.
Those Chicago pictures are so nice, for hoods. Some of those houses would be trendy expensive houses in most parts of Europe depending on proximity to the city center also.
I say DC has the least ghetto feel of these cities. Gentrification in DC is insane. You even have white yuppies living in areas that were complete warzones only a few years ago like Trinidad in Northeast. Also, there are no poor ghettoized white people in the entire DC area. In cities like Baltimore and Oakland, all races that live in the city are ghetto. In Baltimore, you have both ghetto white people and black people and you have integration and intermingling of these folks mostly in South Baltimore. In Oakland, you have ghetto blacks, Latinos and Asians and they all intermingle mostly in East Oakland.
DC's culture is very pretentious and is all about money nowadays. DC is the highest paid city in America when it comes to per capita income because of the well-paying federal government jobs and their related industries. DC has come a long way since it's murder capital early 90's heyday of infamy. The murder rate in DC is less than a quarter of what it was in the early 90's. For having such a large impoverished black population, DC's crime rate is excessively low. Also, the culture in DC is one of minding one's own business. Unless you are deep in Southeast DC, you don't have people menacingly staring into your car as you drive by like you do with Baltimore. DC also has minimal blight. DC is easily one of the nation's cleanest big cities. You only really see signs of blight deep in the worst areas of Anacostia like Barry Farm. But even the blight in Barry Farm does not compare to the average blight in Baltimore.
I say that Oakland definitely has a ghetto feel. But not in the sense of massive visual blight. Oakland is full of single family homes with garages and driveways and bungalows with bars on the windows. Oakland is not like Baltimore or Philly which have blocks of abandoned rowhomes. The Oakland ghetto culture is about sideshows, doing donuts in your car and blocking off entire streets and intersections in the process as well as the fondness for extreme public intoxication. But in terms of actual blight + ghetto culture, the most ghetto feeling places in the Bay Area are in San Francisco is neighborhoods like Sunnydale and the projects in Hunter's Point where you have boarded up old project buildings from the 1940's, the worst environmental racism in California and guys with big military issue firearms stashed behind garbage cans.
I'm kind of confused. With Baltimore D.C. and Philly in the mix is ghetto supposed to mean the city with most of their beautiful architecture and historic structures still intact?
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