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people actually said NY and Chicago? Thats funny...nothing "modern" comes to mind about those two as they are all about the story of the American past/empire.
I think Phoenix is city with a very modern look and feel. There are a lot of highly stylized modern buildings, such as our art museum, library, ect. and the desert look of the area really blends well with those styles. Obviously, Phoenix is a very young city, something that its size distorts and it therefore doesn't have the big stone buildings a lot of older East Coast cities have.
In addition, i think that the way Phoenix is laid out is very indicative of a new model of urban development. Phoenix has a downtown and a pretty strong central core (which is continueing to develop), but because of its size geographical, surrounding cities like Tempe, Scottsdale and Glendale have very strong presence. Glendale has sports, Tempe has the college and bar scene and Scottsdale has the hip club stuff. Phoenix is somewhat like LA (on a younger scale) in that regard. This type of spread out, niche market city is the way the country is moving rather than the traditional style of a big downtown with people living around it. All of the PHX suburbs have sort of mixed into the general area.
I love big downtowns and i hope Phoenix countinues to develop its core, but i think its an interesting things to look at. I'm not trying to say Phoenix is better than anywhere else, and i'm aware there is a lot of cookie cutter crap here, so no one needs to chime in with that. But i vote Phoenix as the most modern city, for better or for worse.
There could be a thread titled: "Most Beautiful Mountain City," and all the NYC fiends would come in and claim that it is. Its ridiculous.
With the addition of Millenium Park, and radical, unique skyscrapers beginning to pop up in downtown, I'd say Chicago. Then probably Toronto.
That's not fair. We all know that Adirondact provide increadible background to Big Aplle...
Now seriously, New York does not come to mind as a modern city especially when compared to Brasillia, Mexico City, New Delhi and all those modern experiments in urban life. It's is older and grittier.
Now when you cerafully read the questions posed by the OP, New York more than qualifies due to its transportations system, fashion, entertainement etc etc.
Even if it does not immedialtely comes to mind as a modern city it is undeniably America's most advanced city.
people actually said NY and Chicago? Thats funny...nothing "modern" comes to mind about those two as they are all about the story of the American past/empire.
Money modernizes all cities.
Old cities like London and Shanghai can look modern in some parts because they still got the money.
As for US cities I think Boston feels very modern. Its very clean, has a great public transportation system, and has many headquarters for fortune 500 companies.
For world cities, they would be Istanbul and Tel Aviv. They seem so advanced in every aspect.
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