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01-28-2008, 12:33 AM
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America's True Urban Cities
Vote or nominate the cities across the U.S. that you consider as the country's true urban cities. By the way, a true urban cities has dense, walkable neighbohoods, good public transportation, a great downtown, good park system, and other viable qualities for a pedestrial culture.
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01-28-2008, 12:55 AM
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All of those cities are true urban centers. I guess the largest ones would be in the BosWash and around Los Angeles. You also forgot Denver with a metro of over 4 million people.
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01-28-2008, 02:00 AM
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Originally Posted by DannyBanany
All of those cities are true urban centers. I guess the largest ones would be in the BosWash and around Los Angeles. You also forgot Denver with a metro of over 4 million people.
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I agree-that is quite a narrow view of the term "urban." I would consider them all urban and I would most certainly add Denver to the list.
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01-28-2008, 09:56 AM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Rwarky
Vote or nominate the cities across the U.S. that you consider as the country's true urban cities. By the way, a true urban cities has dense, walkable neighbohoods, good public transportation, a great downtown, good park system, and other viable qualities for a pedestrial culture.
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How could a place like Salt Lake City be on there but not Louisville.
Dense walkable neighborhoods
Great park system - 3 parks over 400 acres connected by tree lined parkways - all designed by Frederick Olmsted (designer of NYC's Central Park)
Great downtown

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01-28-2008, 10:01 AM
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With that said, Seattle, Chicago, NYC are in a class by themselves
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01-28-2008, 10:43 AM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by DannyBanany
All of those cities are true urban centers. I guess the largest ones would be in the BosWash and around Los Angeles. You also forgot Denver with a metro of over 4 million people.
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I agree Denver should be on the list. It's got some great urban neighborhoods. However, the 2006 Census estimate for the Denver MSA is 2.4 million, not 4 million.
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01-28-2008, 11:00 AM
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Originally Posted by censusdata
With that said, Seattle, Chicago, NYC are in a class by themselves
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Seattle is urban, but certainly not in the same way as Chicago and NYC. Philadelphia and Boston should definitely be added to the Chicago and NY class, as these are the 4 archetype cities that modeled urban development for the rest of the country.
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01-28-2008, 11:07 AM
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With that said, Seattle, Chicago, NYC are in a class by themselves
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i think you need to visit the northeast
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01-28-2008, 11:11 AM
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i think you need to visit the northeast
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and San Francisco.
The true urban cities imo are New York, Chicago, Philadelphia, Boston, Washington DC, Baltimore, New Orleans (heavily underrated for it's urbanity) and San Francisco. St. Louis, Pittsburgh, Providence, Cincinatti, and Seattle are on the next tier under them.
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01-28-2008, 11:12 AM
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I voted for them all since all of them are cities.
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