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True that both have suburbs, but the reality is there is no escaping suburbia outside the "city".
When people go to the "city" (urban core) they are expecting the urban experience
-- > Meaning walkability , everything at your fingertips, easy to navigate w/ or w/o a car.
When people go to a suburban city, they are "near" the city , but typically they have to drive everywhere and need a car from place to place to be apart of the "action" freeways are often very popular in places like these, because of that , that causes horrible traffic, and horrible air quality. Also Many of the residents live in a SFH or garden style apartment complex.
A lot of people in LA think they are really living in the "city" when realistically, all they are living in are a bunch of densely populated suburbs.
Los Angeles urban center for being the 2nd largest "city" is not impressive at all.
The main reason being :
The primary focus in Miami is it's downtown
The primary focus in Los Angeles is it's metro.
There are two different types of a "cities"
An urban city as I call it , is the core of the city, where it's primary focus is on an urban setting, downtown is the highlight, people are living in high rises with everything at your fingertips. An urban city walkable, vibrant, active, and is one of the primary things people want to visit when they go.
Examples include Philly , Chicago, Miami, NYC, SF
A suburban city on the other hand has some of the same characteristics of an urban city, I mean it does have a "downtown" but the biggest difference here is that in a suburban city, the urban core isn't the main highlight of the city, but instead the metro and surroundings is. That is EXACTLY what Los Angeles is, except on steroids. Other example of suburban cities include but not limited to : San Diego, Phoenix, Tucson, etc.
Oh I hate to break it to you CityKing, but most people in Los Angeles live in multifamily dwellings.
I think it is very cute, that LA is the second largest "city" in the United States, but has a mediocre urban setting at best, and when people refer to "LA" they are really referring to the entire county and not the actual "city" itself.. Aww..how cute.. it tries at least!
Oh I hate to break it you MunchItUp, but most people in "Los Angeles" live in SFH and garden style apartments, sounds pretty suburban to me.
I think it is very cute, that LA is the second largest "city" in the United States, but has a mediocre urban setting at best, and when people refer to "LA" they are really referring to the entire county and not the actual "city" itself.. Aww..how cute.. it tries at least!
Oh I hate to break it you MunchItUp, but most people in "Los Angeles" live in SFH and garden style apartments, sounds pretty suburban to me.
No statistically the majority live in multifamily housing.
From this site: Detached houses in 2009 (21.0% of all units)
Townhouses or other attached units in 2009 (14.7% of all units)
Housing units in 2-unit structures in 2009 (7.0% of all units)
Housing units in 3-to-4-unit structures (12.4% of all units)
Housing units in 5-or-more-unit structures (44.6% of all units)
I'd love to see some of these garden style apartments everyone in LA supposedly lives in. I wonder how Miami compares....
No statistically the majority live in multifamily housing.
From this site: Detached houses in 2009 (21.0% of all units)
Townhouses or other attached units in 2009 (14.7% of all units)
Housing units in 2-unit structures in 2009 (7.0% of all units)
Housing units in 3-to-4-unit structures (12.4% of all units)
Housing units in 5-or-more-unit structures (44.6% of all units)
I'd love to see some of these garden style apartments everyone in LA supposedly lives in.
Just because it is a multi-family apartment complex does not mean it is not a garden style apartment. (lol). You can literally have 2000 people living in a garden style apartment complex. All a "garden style" really means is that it is a commercial multifamily apartment complex located in the suburbs and not in the actual urban core itself, that's all it means, it's pretty common sense, nothing more , nothing less.
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