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Like I just said: why y'alls hating on northern europe?
Also, while I do see the Mediterranean influence in Los Angeles architecture, if you go to a Mediterranean city like Barcelona or Genova you see that architecture built very dense and tall and close in to narrow streets. The squat (but pretty) and spacious houses in L.A. feel more like Australia than Europe to me!
I'm not hating on Northern Europe, I just think people have this ONE image of Europe through the eyes of Northern France and the UK. Maybe I'm wrong?
Well, my old neighborhood, Pacific Palisades from this vantage point looks a lot like somewhere in Europe.
Exactly. Europe is BIG, but people just keep thinking about it from and Urbanized city planning point. "LA=Freeways and sprawl, so it can't POSSIBLY look like Paris and London." That's how people are thinking. There not telling the OVERALL picture here. I think they BOTH look European but from a different standpoint. This question is hard to answer. It's like asking "Which European city looks more North American." North America is a BIG, BIG, BIG, continent. The USA is a BIG country with many different climates. THEN you got BIG, BIG, Canada to the North, and BIG, BIG Mexico to the South.
San Francisco, San Diego, Sacramento, Fresno as well. Eureka's borderline - at the boundary between Med and Marine West Coast.
Yeah I totally forgot about NorCal. SF has the density and architecture of European cities, AND the climate of a Mediterranean one. LA has the architecture in places like Rodeo Drive also
I'm not hating on NY, I'm just trying to think outside the box for a bit. At 1st glance people would think about NYC without giving it a little thought.
Actually its your fault for not seeing millions of years of mediterrenean-like nature in Los Angeles.
And it seems that in 2009, the influence NYC has over Europe is greater than vice versa.
Sorry a mediterrenean climate, which only covers southern Europe is not the same as having a European influence. La looks like typical auto centric suburbia USA once you leave the coast. Move on.
Sorry a mediterrenean climate, which only covers southern Europe is not the same as having a European influence. La looks like typical auto centric suburbia USA once you leave the coast. Move on.
southern europe does resemble socal in a few instances. i spent time in Marbella, Spain and it reminded me a lot of Laguna Beach.
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