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"Downtown" is becoming more and more loosely defined. Perhaps we should think of it as putting the "Central" in "Central Business District" rather than throwing in a bunch of suburban office parks?
"Downtown" is becoming more and more loosely defined. Perhaps we should think of it as putting the "Central" in "Central Business District" rather than throwing in a bunch of suburban office parks?
That's what New Orleans calls it's Downtown area, the Central Business District, AKA, "The CBD" to distinguish it from the French Quarter, b/c its all downtown.
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Yep, but I just meant that over the course of this thread, people have started calling all kinds of mini-skylines "downtown" and I don't think that was quite the point? Maybe what we need is a height restriction!
Yep, but I just meant that over the course of this thread, people have started calling all kinds of mini-skylines "downtown" and I don't think that was quite the point? Maybe what we need is a height restriction!
I think it was the point, basically asking which cities have multiple mid/high rise business districts b/c technically you can't really have two "downtowns". Downtown is on ONE spot of the city just like "uptown", "mid town" or "central" is. People just commonly associate clusters of high rises with the term "downtown" even though "CBD" or "high rise employment district" is probably a better term to describe them.
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Hmm, I was thinking of CBDs as being not necessarily central, but a concentration of businesses important to that city's economy and with some vibrancy or commercial development nearby. I would probably stick with highrises as opposed to mid/low rises because we could go on forever in some cities by including the office parks, many of which (here anyway) would be rendered irrelevant by my criteria. Here, sometimes groups of office buildings are just groups of office buildings with nothing much going on inside or out.
I can only speak of the cities I've been to: New York (Midtown, Downtown/Financial District), Atlanta (Downtown, Buckhead), Houston (Downtown, Uptown/Galleria area), Dallas (Downtown, North Dallas).
From my experiences:
Los Angeles and Houston...
what about Phoenix?
It has no real true downtown but all of the suburbs have central business district areas. I remember downtown Scotsdale was almost bigger than central Phoenix. Tempe has the university strip; Chandler, Gilbert and Mesa all have central cities with built up areas so there really could be quite a number in Phoenix
Question 1: Is the intention of the thread to identify multiple CBDs within the limits of a city? Or are we ID'ing polycentric metros? If it's the latter then EVERY metro in the US qualifies. EVERY metro in the US has multiple centers (except maybe the smallest of the small metros).
Question 2: Is every place you find a 15 story building a "downtown"???
because their basically right next to each other only separated by a river you could almost spit across.
But the Loop and the near north side are sometimes considering separate areas. They certainly do feel different.
The Loop is mostly a financial district and offices (with bars/restaurants) mostly for lunch/after work, with residential (formerly warehouses) area immediately to the south and west.
Near north side has everything mixed in: mega-shopping, theaters, hotels, residential buildings, as well as employment areas. Some college stuff too. (NW campus)
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