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I have never been there but Memphis would be a good guess. A distant cousin of mines went there and she said it reminded her of NYC and how it's not country which is interesting to me because NY'ers are usually the ones who say anything outside the 5 Boros is country, but being the she lives in Grayson GA now but is from Brooklyn, so any city with tall buildings and sidewalks would feel like NYC.
Most of Philly is like that barring the more suburban NE and NW Philly. It actually causes a ton of disputes between neighbors. South Philly is particularly bad in this regard. I'm sure other cities have these problems as well, but the vast rowhouse, narrow street nature of Philly exacerbates the issue.
I grew up in an area like that. I don't really see the appeal. It wasn't much fun to circle around the neighborhood to find a parking spot 5 blocks away when coming home from a trip to the grocery store.
Portland, OR. No off street parking or not enough parking, for the amount of units in the bldg. This is done intentionally to cut down on car ownership in these bldgs.
Portland is a very green city, and wants citizens to walk, ride a bike. The area particularly wants residents to take transit. Which there are quite a few ways, to get around besides a car.
That's not what Portland is doing....they're simply allowing developers to choose how much parking to build. The developer wants to avoid the extra expense, but they also want to have enough so rents won't suffer.
Same in Seattle. If a new building has little or no parking, the equation between cost and rents apparently works out better that way. Of course a lot of older buildings have more parking, so that's always an option.
I made a thread about this in the urban planning forum and it's insane how autocentric many posters are.
My point was not that all housing should be like this, but that it can work out really well in core urban neighborhoods. We have endless, I mean endless suburbia in the US already, why should the cores of major cities revolve around cars? That's just not good planning
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