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This whole comment makes literally no sense in any aspect, Seattle's "peak" urban neighborhood is nowhere near Baltimore's peak and that includes downtown. Tall high rises don't make a city better from an urban perspective and especially not newly built ones. What makes urban neighborhoods great is walkability, streetwalls, store fronts that are easily accessible and front the sidewalk, small streets. Seattle has hardly any of this and Baltimore is filled with it all over the city. So no, again, there is no "peak" urbanity in Seattle that even comes close in any way to Baltimore's "peak" and it's blatantly obvious. You're just a hometown city boaster. Judging by this criteria Cleveland could have better "peak" urbanity than central Paris.
I will say that while I think Baltimore still edges out Seattle, Seattle is improving by leaps and bounds, while Baltimore is still losing urban fabric to demolition (and the infill it gets in some cases isn't great). Therefore I think Seattle will surpass Baltimore in urban form within a few decades.
Helterskelter: Seattle has a light rail subway including seven underground stations and others under construction. Our transit, walking, and biking shares are better than Baltimore's within city limits per the Census dept 2015 numbers. Buses are a big part of that including a lot of HOV lanes. What are you debating here?
Seattle's houses aren't dense, but the 15% of the city that allows density can be. Much of that is six-story urbanity with street walls. Well over half our housing is multifamily and most of that has street walls.
As for Cleveland and Paris, my point would be exactly the opposite, which should be obvious.
Seattle does have garages in the core, but they're all old. As for vacant lots, tell me where and I'll tell you what's been built there since the photo.
It appears he's insinuating that "urban" means full of ghetto blacks who will murder white people on sight, and as soon as you are outside of the Inner Harbor, you will be in the ghetto.
Even putting aside the coded racism, it's false. Downtown and Inner Harbor are bordered by several gentrified neighborhoods, including Mt. Vernon, Ridgely's Delight, Otterbein, Federal Hill, Little Italy, and Fells Point. Seton Hill and Jonestown are probably the only two first-ring neighborhoods which suburbanites might be scared of.
It appears he's insinuating that "urban" means full of ghetto blacks who will murder white people on sight, and as soon as you are outside of the Inner Harbor, you will be in the ghetto.
Even putting aside the coded racism, it's false. Downtown and inner Harbor are bordered by several gentrified neighborhoods, including Mt. Vernon, Ridgely's Delight, Otterbein, Federal Hill, Little Italy, and Fells Point. Seton Hill and Jonestown are probably the only two first-ring neighborhoods which suburbanites might be scared of.
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