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I just spent some time in Chicago and coming back from the convention center I walked through this neighborhood. While it has many nice buildings it is a bit sterile. The street vibe was barren. I think it will get better but honestly it is funny you compared this area to Atlanta. My thought was this felt much more like Atlanta or Houston than it did to the rest of Chicago, which in my opinion was a bad thing. Chicago is such a great city. But it felt like the suburbs were replicated within the city and that just confused me
Yeah you're absolutely right. There are a ton of new developments like that (well minus the highrises) all over Chicago. There's University Village on Halsted near UIC, Roosevelt Square (mixed-income development near Little Italy), Old Town Square (replacing Cabrini), then there's developments near Diversey and Paulina, Wrightwood and Southport, near Diversey and Western, Central Park and Polk, and a bunch in Bronzeville on the South Side (near 35th and State, Pershing and Cottage Grove, and near Woodlawn and 46th).
Yeah you're absolutely right. There are a ton of new developments like that (well minus the highrises) all over Chicago. There's University Village on Halsted near UIC, Roosevelt Square (mixed-income development near Little Italy), Old Town Square (replacing Cabrini), then there's developments near Diversey and Paulina, Wrightwood and Southport, near Diversey and Western, Central Park and Polk, and a bunch in Bronzeville on the South Side (near 35th and State, Pershing and Cottage Grove, and near Woodlawn and 46th).
That locaton is tremendous though. Right on the lake and the park, wow that is spectacular. I often wondered why that area didnt develop sooner, in another thread I believe it was mentioned that much was old railyards which have taken a while to clean up.
But those views must be amazing from those hi-rises
st. louis has a number of rowhouse neighborhoods, although not as many as my hometown of philadelphia. my reason for posting those photos was to demonstrate to whomever it was who seemed surprised by the quality of urban housing in st. louis that the city is solid. in 1950, st. louis had nearly 900,000 people within its 61 square miles. although its density has declined since then, it still packs a punch.
900,000 in 61 sqm ??? wow tough !!! That is density...
Still less than San Francisco's current density (815,000 people in 47 square miles) . And the densest 61 square miles of Philadelphia or Chicago would probably be similar.
*The state of California thinks there are 856,00 people. We won't know for sure until the Census 2010 results come out.
University City is a section of West Philadelphia, just over the Schuykill River (pronounced "school - kill") and was largely developed between 1850 and 1910. Nearly every type of Victorian residential architecture is represented: Italianate, Queen Anne, French 2nd Empire, Eclectic, Netherlandish Revival, American Arts And Crafts, Richardsonian Romanesque, etc.
It's called University City because within a square mile or so is Drexel University, the "Ivy-League" University of Pennsylvania, USP - University Of The Sciences Philadelphia (the oldest pharmacological college in the US), and The Restaurant School At Walnut Hill College.
This might be my new favorite thread. I love row houses.
Here is a small sampling from Cincinnati.
I've never been to Cincinatti. Are there a lot of rowhouses there?
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University City, West Philadelphia
