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As far as the old moneyed wealth of the city and leafy mansion filled lanes, Mountain Brook Alabama and Buckhead share similarities. Of course Buckhead's skyline is more impressive on its own than downtown Birmingham.
OTOH, Highland Park Village would be a more beefed-up version of English Village in Mountain Brook.
Face it folks, there is really nothing like Buckhead that combines the wealth, the acred estates with an almost rural character adjacent to high dollar retail and a skyline that many major cities would die for all within the core city as a neighborhood.
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Tysons Corner is much more akin to the northern perimeter areas of Sandy Springs and Dunwoody than it is to Buckhead. Agree with previous posters that Bethesda would be the more equivalent DC area to Sandy Springs.
Tysons is a little bit ahead of Sandy Spring/Dunwoody though, I'd say those are a poor mans version of Tysons at best. I worked in the Dunwoody area when I lived there and it is extremely car oriented. Tysons, while car oriented has 4 metro stations now, they are planning improvements to the street grid and a local bus circulator. I believe the bike share already exists there as well.
Face it folks, there is really nothing like Buckhead that combines the wealth, the acred estates with an almost rural character adjacent to high dollar retail and a skyline that many major cities would die for all within the core city as a neighborhood.
Yep, merge Central Park with west village, Beverly Hills and A1A in Miami and you get Buckhead.
Tysons is a little bit ahead of Sandy Spring/Dunwoody though, I'd say those are a poor mans version of Tysons at best. I worked in the Dunwoody area when I lived there and it is extremely car oriented. Tysons, while car oriented has 4 metro stations now, they are planning improvements to the street grid and a local bus circulator. I believe the bike share already exists there as well.
I agree that Perimeter is car-oriented but it has had MARTA stations for several years now and there have also been efforts made to make the area a bit more pedestrian-friendly, including several new TOD projects. I'm not sure if those things you mention make Tysons any more walkable than Perimeter at the present moment.
Tysons is a little bit ahead of Sandy Spring/Dunwoody though, I'd say those are a poor mans version of Tysons at best. I worked in the Dunwoody area when I lived there and it is extremely car oriented. Tysons, while car oriented has 4 metro stations now, they are planning improvements to the street grid and a local bus circulator. I believe the bike share already exists there as well.
So? They're still surrounded by huge 6-8 lane arterials, parking lots, strip malls, and even car dealerships.
So? They're still surrounded by huge 6-8 lane arterials, parking lots, strip malls, and even car dealerships.
agreed as Tysons is trying to retrofit crazy dis-jointed chaos of development and literally is boxed in by highways
that said the Metro access is better than any other being discussed
and haven't been to Tysons in a few years and am sure things are changing
but it was a mess not to long ago
I actually want to visit as think KOP in Philly could benefit from some aspects developed there (although even worse in KOP) but are getting multiple HR stops on an extension
aspects of all, not complete for any of them as a comparator
One thing about Buckhead, it doesn't deliver as an urban locale and that is its biggest short-coming for me
It still requires mostly uber or driving to really get to points
Its more a suburban commuter shed with a large commercial segment clustered
It offers fabulous suburban amenities in a pseudo urban form
An urban purist would be disappointed but for most people (urban purest are large minority (maybe not on CD)) its a tremendous location
Well just wipe anything in the sunbelt and much of anything outside the core city in the rest of the country off your list if that level of urbanity is the standard. Sorry, but the automobile has dictated growth patterns everywhere for close to a century now.
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