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How are people saying Charlotte? That city has been populated since the 1700s. Maybe even the 1600s. I am sure there is some OLD architecture in the city.
To the posters suggesting Miami--yeah, you could make the argument that Miami is a "newer" city, for sure. However, most of the actually new development (1990's-present) is found in the outlying areas and Broward County. In Miami-Dade County specifically, there's lots of homes and buildings from the 1950's-1980's--not exactly what I'd call "new," but YMMV.
How are people saying Charlotte? That city has been populated since the 1700s. Maybe even the 1600s. I am sure there is some OLD architecture in the city.
Didn't Charlotte actually level most of it's downtown in the 1970s, under the guise of urban renewal?
How are people saying Charlotte? That city has been populated since the 1700s. Maybe even the 1600s. I am sure there is some OLD architecture in the city.
Yes there is some but not as much as in other cities of comparable size or even smaller size. The era of urban renewal wasn't kind to Charlotte at all, and it didn't help that it wasn't a large pre-war city to begin with. There are some older commercial and civic buildings left in the core, but they are definitely overshadowed by all the newer buildings; there's not a core of historic buildings surrounded by newer ones, like with Fairlie-Poplar in downtown Atlanta. I'd say, residential excepted, most of Charlotte's historic buildings consist of industrial buildings outside of Uptown (especially textile mills) and churches.
To the posters suggesting Miami--yeah, you could make the argument that Miami is a "newer" city, for sure. However, most of the actually new development (1990's-present) is found in the outlying areas and Broward County. In Miami-Dade County specifically, there's lots of homes and buildings from the 1950's-1980's--not exactly what I'd call "new," but YMMV.
I also think that Miami doesn't look like one of the newer cities in Sunbelt standards.
It was established in the 20th Century as a railroad stop and wasn't more than a village of under 5,000 people until the 1930s and didn't become more than a small town until the late 40s. What is considered a historical sibuilding with exception of the Old Mormon Fort from the 1850s(before Vegas as a town even existed) is basically a handful of buildings from the 30s and 40s(there's a neighborhood of World War II-era ranch homes that's a historic district). Even much of the mid-Century history of Las Vegas was destroyed--the old history of the Strip was lost forever to make way for new casinos.
Even somewhere like Phoenix has much more of a pre-auto, pre-World War II footprint with some older buildings dating back to the 19th Century and some Victorian or street-car era neighborhoods close-in. Vegas is basically a baby compared even to the other "younger" cities of the West. Places like Denver or Portland or even Salt Lake City with their older brick and Victorian districts feel positvely ancient compared to Vegas. And much of the suburban development around Vegas didn't spring up from older small town centers, but basically just bloomed as late 20th Century suburbia out of the desert.
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