What are some other cities/regions which resemble Buckhead, GA?
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Yeah, they both have impressive tower collections but also huge parking ratios, with garages typically above-grade, and plenty of old-style suburbia as well. And they're bisected by freeways.
I been to ATL but am not terribly familiar with Buckhead, though looking back at my Google maps timeline I was in that area, but I work in Bloomington, MN and I passed through Schaumburg, IL and I swore to God I was back in Bloomington lol It looks identical.
No part of ATL reminded me of Schaumburg or Bloomington
I been to ATL but am not terribly familiar with Buckhead, though looking back at my Google maps timeline I was in that area, but I work in Bloomington, MN and I passed through Schaumburg, IL and I swore to God I was back in Bloomington lol It looks identical.
No part of ATL reminded me of Schaumburg or Bloomington
Buckhead and Schaumburg are nothing alike. Schaumburg is just pure sprawl with no intention of urbanizing whereas Buckhead has high rises all over and is actively urbanizing. Buckhead is also far more luxurious than Schaumburg as well. The best answer to this form is the Uptown Houston area with Tysons and Century City being distant seconds and thirds.
Someone upthread mentioned being within city limits -- that's probably crucial, since any separately incorporated old-money suburb probably would have halted commercial growth long before it achieved Buckhead's high-rise scale. Buckhead (and Uptown Houston) only happened because pro-growth factions from outside the neighborhood were easily able to overrule the neighbors' NIMBY tendencies.
It was fairly typical in the pre-zoning, pre-sprawl era for the fashionable shopping district to move away from "downtown" and towards "uptown" (the rich peoples' houses). In NYC, they steadily marched north from Grand Street to Ladies Mile and finally to Fifth and Madison: "department store owners chased elite society, leaping from one district to another in an attempt to remain close to the trendsetters." Chicago saw the rise of North Michigan Avenue -- whose dominance is now threatened by the Clybourn/Armitage corridor, though that's now zoning-constrained. Boston's shopping moved from Downtown Crossing to Back Bay.
With that in mind, other "uptown" retail centers within city limits that aren't entirely post-1960s sprawl, but never caught on as big office districts:
- Green Hills, Nashville
- Cherry Creek, Denver
- NorthPark, Dallas
- The Domain, Austin
- Century City, Los Angeles
- How about Coconut Grove, even though the main retail foci are just across the line in Coral Gables?
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Originally Posted by Pincho-toot
I work in Bloomington, MN
Edina is the better Twin Cities analogue, and Birmingham / Somerset perhaps a version for southeast Michigan. Both are major retail and employment centers, but not really regional-scale.
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