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I know New Orleans metro is over 1 million, I think 1,250,000 if I'm not mistaken?
But from visiting last year, I felt the downtown area was very large, especially if you consider the French Quarter area part of downtown, it felt the city's metro size was around 4 million, or even more.
I know New Orleans metro is over 1 million, I think 1,250,000 if I'm not mistaken?
But from visiting last year, I felt the downtown area was very large, especially if you consider the French Quarter area part of downtown, it felt the city's metro size was around 4 million, or even more.
Yeah New Orleans CBD is definitely a throw back to it's heydays. I hope it can reclaim some of the empty office space I see when I'm there. Don't forget it's lost quite a bit of people, even before Katrina gutted it It had been losing population.
Allentown PA, which anchors a MSA of 827,048. Not so much because of the skyline (which isn't really impressive) but because it's surrounded by 40 by 40 blocks of nearly continuous rowhouses. It really is like you took a chunk of Philadelphia moved it 60 miles north.
The space between the capitol and the skyscrapers is all low-rise and mid-rise high-density residential and commercial development; ie. it's all downtown. Most of that area is actually the East Village, which is the most actively urban neighborhood in the city. Des Moines's downtown not much smaller than Cincinnati's downtown (a city roughly 4 times bigger), and that's just the areas that are already walkable and bikable.
Of course it's still only a small-city downtown, but given that the entire MSA is 600k it's definitely notable.
Most definitely San Francisco (pop. 826,000) and Seattle (pop. 635,000) have the most impressive skyline, theirs cities with populations in the millions that can't compete with these two.
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