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Old 01-25-2012, 10:23 AM
 
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Standalone houses are not high density. The city is made of many walkable neighborhoods, but dense it is not. High density means high rise residential housing. You really don't see any of that outside of downtown. You really don't see much of any kind of dense housing in most of the city.
Not really. Other cities such as Boston don't have much high rise residential outside of downtown but are extremely high density. Of course it is comprised mostly of 2-4 story brownstone townhomes/apartments.
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Old 01-25-2012, 04:00 PM
 
Location: Seattle, WA! Finally! :D
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Right there between Detroit and Dallas. Seattle is NOT dense by any stretch of the imagination.

Austin Contrarian: Density calculations for U.S. urbanized areas, weighted by census tract
Yeah, there is something wrong with that. It lists Honolulu as #4 and that is hilarious! I lived there and it does not FEEL dense at all. Seattle FEELS dense, whether it actually is by numbers or not doesn't really matter...
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Old 01-25-2012, 05:34 PM
 
Location: Greater Seattle, WA Metro Area
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Yeah, there is something wrong with that. It lists Honolulu as #4 and that is hilarious! I lived there and it does not FEEL dense at all. Seattle FEELS dense, whether it actually is by numbers or not doesn't really matter...
Agree...I have lived in Denver and Dallas and they are so much more "sprawled feeling" than Seattle.
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Old 01-26-2012, 07:26 AM
 
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That list has LA near the top. LA is the absolute definition of "sprawl". You can't even compare density between LA and Chicago & Philly, two cities that list has as "less dense" than LA. The list needs lots of work, because that is pretty laughable.

Also big lol at Phoenix and Vegas being in the top 15 for density. Both cities are like mini-LA's and noted for ridiculous sprawl.

Edit: Houston and Dallas are 'more dense' than Pittsburgh and St. Louis?? lollllll
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Old 01-26-2012, 07:59 AM
 
Location: anywhere but Seattle
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That list has LA near the top. LA is the absolute definition of "sprawl". You can't even compare density between LA and Chicago & Philly, two cities that list has as "less dense" than LA. The list needs lots of work, because that is pretty laughable.

Also big lol at Phoenix and Vegas being in the top 15 for density. Both cities are like mini-LA's and noted for ridiculous sprawl.

Edit: Houston and Dallas are 'more dense' than Pittsburgh and St. Louis?? lollllll
Sprawl and density are not opposite sides of the same coin. If you think you have more accurate data to support your point of view, please post it. Otherwise the fact remains. lollllll
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Old 01-26-2012, 10:49 AM
 
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curious if Seattle has any rowhouses that were built pre-WW2? Are there any in any city neighborhood?
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Old 01-26-2012, 12:26 PM
 
Location: Seattle, WA
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Not really, most of early seattle was built with craftsman bungalows. There was just alot more space here and the rowhouse is not indigenous to the west for the most part.
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Old 01-26-2012, 12:31 PM
 
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There were rowhouses here. Not a lot, but they did exist, and almost all have been torn down. One that remains is on the historic register, The Victorian Rowhouses on S. King St, just east of Rainier Avenue/International District, on the western edge of the Central District. They're very cool looking.
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Old 01-26-2012, 12:38 PM
 
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Ive seen people on city-data posting about how seattle is low density and sprawled, yet from the pictures i've seen, seattle seems to be very urban and not broken up by so many freeways and parking lots like houston or Atlanta.

Seattle seems to have alot of dense urban neighborhoods that are connected to downtown...how is this sprawled? Also i doubt such a progressive/left-leaning city like Seattle could be so auto-centric and bulldozer-happy when it comes to old walkable neighborhoods
Progressive, leftist, non-autocentric?

You're talking about the town made famous for the philosophy: "Don't improve things and the newcomers will stop coming"? Is Emmet Watson still alive?

Tenth worst traffic congestion in the nation? (6th five years ago)

The fifteenth largest metro area in the country, with a density of 543/sq mile? (It doesn't even come close the the 10,000 required to appear on the list of dense urban areas: List of United States cities by population density - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

You should really visit a place before you form any opinions about it.
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Old 01-26-2012, 02:20 PM
 
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Sprawl and density are not opposite sides of the same coin. If you think you have more accurate data to support your point of view, please post it.
Do you honestly think LA is more dense than Chicago or Philly?

Have you visited any of these cities? You can argue about population density in specific neighborhoods, but LA and Houston/Dallas are the kings of single family detached homes, and with fairly large lots to boot for the latter two. As opposed to row type housing, which runs as far as the eye can see in Philly and Chicago.
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