Streetscapes: Chicago, Atlanta, Los Angeles, Seattle, Austin, Charlotte, Richmond, Philadelphia, etc. (life, cons) - City vs. City - Page 4 - City-Data Forum

steeps · 07-12-2015, 08:29 PM

CHICAGO streetscape 360°s OF DOWNTOWN CHICAGO'S MAIN STREET. ALL ON ONE STREET TOUR..

Can't be beat......

DOWNTOWN CHICAGO USA. MICHIGAN AVE.

South Michigan Ave. Looking NORTH in front of the ART INSTITUTE of CHICAGO
https://www.google.com/maps/@41.8795...2!8i6656?hl=en

South Michigan Ave looking SOUTH from the ART INSTITUTE.
https://www.google.com/maps/@41.8793...2!8i6656?hl=en

South Michigan Ave further South in front of ORIGINAL CONRAD HILTON HOTEL.
https://www.google.com/maps/@41.8751...2!8i6656?hl=en

OK Heading back up NORTH Past Art Institute OLD and NEW CHICAGO Architecture MIX.
https://www.google.com/maps/@41.8807...2!8i6656?hl=en

Approaching BUSTLING MILLENNIUM PARK
https://www.google.com/maps/@41.8819...2!8i6656?hl=en

Corridor To MILLENNIUM PARK.
https://www.google.com/maps/@41.8820...2!8i6656?hl=en

SPECTACULAR PRITZKER PAVILION IN MILLENIUM PARK and NEW EAST SIDE OF CHICAGO.

https://www.google.com/maps/@41.8821...2!8i6656?hl=en

CHICAGO CULTURAL CENTER (The Original Chicago Public Library)
https://www.google.com/maps/@41.8845...2!8i6656?hl=en

Probably the CENTER OF DOWNTOWN CHICAGO and SHOWING OFF ITS BREATH TAKING ARCHITECTURE 1920S through to today's.

https://www.google.com/maps/@41.8979...!6m1!1e1?hl=en

LOUIS VUITTON on left and GUCCI AHEAD.
https://www.google.com/maps/@41.9000...!6m1!1e1?hl=en

NORTH MICHIGAN AVE & LAKE SHORE DRIVE. BEGIN'S THE " MAGNIFICENT MILE " with OAK STREET BEACH and Tiki Bar. On this unusually quite early June day......

https://www.google.com/maps/@41.9018...!6m1!1e1?hl=en

THAT ENDS OUR TOUR OF CHICAGOS MAGNIFICANT MICHIGAN AVE. DOWNTOWN....

ecwwwc · 07-12-2015, 08:59 PM

I think you missed the point of this steeps. It wasn't about showing downtown. It was showing streetscapes outside of downtown. All of your stuff is downtown.

steeps · 07-12-2015, 09:23 PM

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Originally Posted by ecwwwc

I think you missed the point of this steeps. It wasn't about showing downtown. It was showing streetscapes outside of downtown. All of your stuff is downtown.

My start was downtown. Tomorrow is another day. Also I merely chose ONE DOWNTOWN street. I have neighborhoods in mind next...... Most though do not look through so many streetscape? Unless YOU GIVE THEN SOME COMMENTS OF INTEREST? SO I CHOSE CHICAGO'S MAIN STREET THOROUGHFARE. TO DO FIRST.

Interesting neighborhoods and unique streetscape's next. Maybe some pictures?

RightonWalnut · 07-12-2015, 11:31 PM

Iconographer · 07-13-2015, 05:58 AM

I have to say Chicago. I don't know of any other city that puts so much effort into their public spaces. It was of particular interest to Mayor Daley's wife; she made it her pet project...and you know the Daleys always got what they wanted.

Mr Ambitious · 07-13-2015, 07:42 AM

I love Chicago and Philly, my two favorite cities by far! Others cities shown are nice as well.

Blimp · 07-15-2015, 09:43 AM

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Originally Posted by Exlamatir

My Ranking for streetscape:

Philly
Chicago
Seattle/LA (tie)
Richmond
Atlanta
Austin
Charlotte

My ranking exactly.

TheProf · 07-16-2015, 02:03 PM

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Originally Posted by Exlamatir

My Ranking for streetscape:

Philly
Chicago
Seattle/LA (tie)
Richmond
Atlanta
Austin
Charlotte

I live in Philly, so I see it every day and am regularly in and out of similar East Coast cities. Because of this, I'd like to think I'm not jaded... but maybe I am. I do love those unique, narrow beautifully claustrophobic streets and neighborhoods of Philadelphia, which are collectively and on such a scale, unmatched by any major city in this country.

I would rank Chicago ahead of Philly in terms of streetscape. I love the historical, Colonial (Federal, Georgian, Italianate, etc) rowhouse facades of Philly's streetscapes, but the lively mixed-use commercial areas of Chicago, plus the ornate old flats and rowhouses of residential areas, trump Philly imho. Chicago's neighborhoods just have that electric feeling to them.

Also, after Richmond, your list makes no sense to me (I can't speak on Austin, because I've never been there). Atlanta only has a few attractive pedestrian-oriented areas, the most prominent is Midtown along Peachtree Street to the north of downtown... Most of the rest of Atlanta is a bunch of malls, strip malls, cul-de-sacs and suburban office campuses which, collectively, don't even register with me. Charlotte is Atlanta, Jr.

Baltimore, Cincinnati, Cleveland and Milwaukee, in that order (to name a few), leave Charlotte and Atlanta in the dust.

Third Strike · 07-16-2015, 02:07 PM

Franco34 · 07-16-2015, 05:14 PM

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Originally Posted by TheProf

I live in Philly, so I see it every day and am regularly in and out of similar East Coast cities. Because of this, I'd like to think I'm not jaded... but maybe I am. I do love those unique, narrow beautifully claustrophobic streets and neighborhoods of Philadelphia, which are collectively and on such a scale, unmatched by any major city in this country.

I would rank Chicago ahead of Philly in terms of streetscape. I love the historical, Colonial (Federal, Georgian, Italianate, etc) rowhouse facades of Philly's streetscapes, but the lively mixed-use commercial areas of Chicago, plus the ornate old flats and rowhouses of residential areas, trump Philly imho. Chicago's neighborhoods just have that electric feeling to them.

Also, after Richmond, your list makes no sense to me (I can't speak on Austin, because I've never been there). Atlanta only has a few attractive pedestrian-oriented areas, the most prominent is Midtown along Peachtree Street to the north of downtown... Most of the rest of Atlanta is a bunch of malls, strip malls, cul-de-sacs and suburban office campuses which, collectively, don't even register with me. Charlotte is Atlanta, Jr.

Baltimore, Cincinnati, Cleveland and Milwaukee, in that order (to name a few), leave Charlotte and Atlanta in the dust.

I think he was ranking the cities listed in the title.