What are some very dense neighborhoods in smaller and medium sized cities? (rent, condo)

[eschaton]

I'm going to re-link to a list of streetviews from Pittsburgh I've given before. It's easier than coming up with new "classically urban" streetviews again. Note that all of these are off the main commercial drags, because all too often main commercial drags can give you a wrong impression of how urban an area is.

Originally Posted by eschaton

Apartment areas:

North Oakland
North Oakland
South Oakland
Shadyside
Shadyside
Shadyside
Squirrel Hill
Squirrel Hill

Rowhouse areas (limit of one per neighborhood, because there are so many):

Allegheny West
Manchester
Central North Side
Deutschtown
Spring Garden
Troy Hill
Polish Hill
Lower Lawrenceville
Central Lawrenceville
Upper Lawrenceville
Bloomfield
Garfield*
East Liberty*
Shadyside*
South Oakland
Uptown
South Side
Hazelwood*
Homewood*

* Not indicative of majority of housing stock in neighborhood.

[WanderingFar]

Originally Posted by annie_himself

Spanish Town in Baton Rouge was established in 1805
https://goo.gl/maps/8AVt7V55SkK2

If this is dense, I think you could add most cities to the list: Nashville, St. Louis, Charleston, Louisville, Huntsville, Memphis, Buffalo, Ithaca, and on and on.

[Dawn.Davenport]

Allentown, Buffalo: https://goo.gl/maps/qcpgB2Nt12z

Lower Eastside, Milwaukee: https://goo.gl/maps/iF9uzM96dvP2

South Wedge, Rochester: https://goo.gl/maps/PdeyGxv2Rm92

Osbourn Village, Winnipeg: https://goo.gl/maps/WqcT2mjykbD2

Some random neighborhood, Des Moines: https://goo.gl/maps/wdzSBJq14KC2

[kidphilly]

How small is small?


There are many places with very dense areas that may contain 30, 40, 50K people etc. some more dense then many larger cities or even their cores but less of the other offerings

[eschaton]

If you're looking for small and dense though, Eastern PA absolutely kills it. I mean, this is in a small town of less than 4,000 people in the middle of the woods.

[kidphilly]

Originally Posted by eschaton

If you're looking for small and dense though, Eastern PA absolutely kills it. I mean, this is in a small town of less than 4,000 people in the middle of the woods.

agreed - think that is Jim Thorpe in the picture


or even places like a Norristown or even West Chester PA for example have pretty dense areas and a fair amount of people living in them

[eschaton]

Originally Posted by kidphilly

agreed - think that is Jim Thorpe in the picture


or even places like a Norristown or even West Chester PA for example have pretty dense areas and a fair amount of people living in them

The Coal Region is peppered with small towns which are essentially all rowhouses and twins, with no suburbs at all. Manahoy City even has a midrise senior apartment building.

[PDF]

Originally Posted by 812accucheck

Austin is filled with dense, diverse, lovely neighborhoods. Check it out. There's a reason people have been saying this is the greatest city in the nation

Here we go again. Are you going to go around to every thread proclaiming Austin to be the greatest city in the country? How about responding to posts that challenged that claim?

[PDF]

Originally Posted by NigerianNightmare

Important question, do you mean city limits or Metro. I would personally like to see some dense neighborhoods in metros under 1 million people and even under 500,000. Places in between CSA's like Trenton wouldn't count IMO.

I agree. I don't think it's fair to include places like Cincinnati or Pittsburgh. More so thinking of places that you'd be surprised to find dense neighborhoods. Omaha is a good example of that.

[fezzador]

Originally Posted by WanderingFar

If this is dense, I think you could add most cities to the list: Nashville, St. Louis, Charleston, Louisville, Huntsville, Memphis, Buffalo, Ithaca, and on and on.

Huntsville is most certainly NOT dense. At 850 ppl/square mile, it's one of the LEAST dense cities in the country.

As a general rule, land in AL is inexpensive. There's a reason why it has a significantly higher than average percentage of single-family housing units, and there's a reason why Birmingham's skyline is unimpressive. Until land prices command otherwise, Alabama's cities will continue to be some of the sprawliest in the nation.