What a ridiculous article, Houston is nothing like LA, let alone California (America, Chicago)

[NoClueWho]

Originally Posted by SouthernBoy205

Houston has a hybrid of Baton Rouge, Miami, Mobile, Orlando, New Orleans, and Atlanta to me.

LOL, what the?!? Might as well just throw Astana, Kazakhstan in there too, while you're at it...lol.

[jamills21]

Bonus: Santa Monica at the end of the new Expo Line. If you turn 180 and squint...you can see the entrance to the Santa Monica Pier!

[biscuit_head]

Originally Posted by SouthernBoy205

Houston has a hybrid of Baton Rouge, Miami, Mobile, Orlando, New Orleans, and Atlanta to me.

Originally Posted by Mentallect

LOL, what the?!? Might as well just throw Astana, Kazakhstan in there too, while you're at it...lol.

If SouthernBoy switched Miami with Tampa, I'd be inclined to agree with what he's saying. Houston shares a lot of similarities from a scenery and development standpoint with other cities on the Gulf Coast. New Orleans itself is way too unique and has a much more densely-built environment than those other cities mentioned, but the joke about Houston being "Metairie [suburb of NO] on Steroids" has some truth and accuracy to it. Westheimer Blvd looks a lot like Dale Mabry Highway and Kennedy Blvd in Tampa and the nicer parts of Orange Blossom Trail in Orlando. Airline Hwy in Baton Rouge looks like a slightly more countrified version of FM 1960...

Obviously, there are differences between Florida, Texas, and Louisiana, but the similarities between Houston and other major cities on the Gulf Coast.

[SouthernBoy205]

Well, I did say "To me."

[i'm not a cookie]

Originally Posted by SouthernBoy205

Well, I did say "To me."

Yeah but you never explained why. I get some of the cities but how does Houston remind you of Miami or New Orleans?

[SouthernBoy205]

In Houston, most of the sides don't look like each other. North Houston is very different from West Houston; it can easily be in the Southeast. Up there, there are windy roads, tall pines, and small hills (Atlanta). West Houston/Southwest Houston is concrete on top of concrete; this area is much flatter and has less tall pines (the Florida cities and Baton Rouge). East Houston is very industrial and swampy (Louisiana). Southeast Houston is more coastal in feel and gives me a more Florida feel. Parts of Central Houston look like New Orleans, TO ME. Y'all are getting caught up in your feelings about N.O. because of it's core; Houston favors N.O. outside of that.

Take a stroll down the ENTRIE stretch of Westheimer, you will see how bipolar Houston's appearance is. LOL. Memorial Drive is very forested though.

[Spade]

Originally Posted by Ant131531

Houston does have a few similarities to LA, especially it's building patterns. Houston will likely end up having a lot of medium to high density areas, but a lot of them being rather unwalkable similar to LA. I'm actually not that big of a fan of Houston's current urban development other than stuff going in downtown/midtown. The townhome developments are awful especially with the gates around them. Houston needs to look towards Dallas to see how townhome/rowhouse/brownstone developments should be done. They're doing things right.

Meh. Houston gets rid of the gates, and it would be looked at as urban. Houston doesn't need to develop their structures the same way Dallas does and vice versa. I don't need to see repetitive cities.

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[Gunion Powder]

Originally Posted by Calisonn

Unfortunately former posters like Metro Matt and wordlyman salivated at the thought of Houston becoming like LA, they're the ones who made Houstonians look like LA wannabes.

Even though the majority of Houstonians/Texans here did not share their views. Their opinions were their own.

Originally Posted by Ant131531

Houston does have a few similarities to LA, especially it's building patterns. Houston will likely end up having a lot of medium to high density areas, but a lot of them being rather unwalkable similar to LA. I'm actually not that big of a fan of Houston's current urban development other than stuff going in downtown/midtown. The townhome developments are awful especially with the gates around them. Houston needs to look towards Dallas to see how townhome/rowhouse/brownstone developments should be done. They're doing things right.

A city can be urban without brownstones. What's needed is more storefronts, and most southern cities fail at this miserably.

What Dallas (and Atlanta) is doing is intentionally patterning itself after other cities, like incorporating rowhouses into their neighborhoods even though they were never a part of the historical urban fabric of either city. Houston builds without vision or any real regard for what other cities look like.

[Ant131531]

Originally Posted by Gunion Powder

Even though the majority of Houstonians/Texans here did not share their views. Their opinions were their own.


A city can be urban without brownstones. What's needed is more storefronts, and most southern cities fail at this miserably.

What Dallas (and Atlanta) is doing is intentionally patterning itself after other cities, like incorporating rowhouses into their neighborhoods even though they were never a part of the historical urban fabric of either city. Houston builds without vision or any real regard for what other cities look like.

Let's not act like the townhomes going up in Houston are unique. You can see that being built all over western cities like Seattle, Portland, LA, and SF. Dallas and Atlanta are just going the more eastern route of using brick and mortar.

[Cowboys fan in Houston]

As much as my fellow Houstonians will hate to admit it, the city in the US that Houston has the most in common with is Dallas. That should go without saying, but people from both cities like to distance themselves from each other.