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Instead of largest amount of walkable/non-hood areas, I think we should focus on what cities have the largest concentration of them. In terms of pure area, Chicago might win, but percentage wise, SF might win. Quality over Quantity?
This.
percent wise, I would definitely go with San Fran. As far as areas, I would definitely go with Chicago. Basically from the South Loop up through the Northwest and North sides you only have a few select areas that are shady. I don't know who said north of Belmont is where the "nice" ends. I live up north of Irving Park and it's beautiful and perfectly safe. Uptown isn't a ghetto by a long shot. There are select buildings and a few streets that have issues, but it's a neighborhood of 65,000 people - most of which is quite nice.
Not even mentioning the nice areas on the southwest sides of the city along with Hyde Park, Bridgeport, Chinatown, areas of Pilson, etc. etc. in areas of the city that aren't north or downtown.
On LA maybe, on Philly versus Atlanta? Really There are 2/3rd as many people living in the broader Center City (5.2 sq mile core with 200K people) area as in the whole city of Atlanta. There is absolutely no way Atlanta has more people that reside in these such neighborhoods (also Atlanta as a city probably is comparable in % of areas that are bad when comapred to philly though both are getting better), I think it would be mathmatically impossible. Based on desireable neighborhoods within Philly that are walkable I estimate that between 600-700K people reside among these, now the city has nearly 1.6 million residents, the remainder are more ok areas or bad areas which Philly also has a lot of.
Also there is no way Seattle has more people living in desireable and walkable neighborhoods when compared to Philly, the numbers just cant bear it out. People may prefer Seattle but to me at least half of Seattle is not walkable neighborhoods in the first place and the city is less than 1/3rd the size of Philly.
Philly I believe suffers the ghetto image, which it has far too much of yet it still has the population of all of Seattle the city that live in desireable and walkable neighborhoods.
Also i see no way Seattle could have more on this criteria when compared to DC and especially Boston.
I'm not basing things on statistics on walkable square footage per city resident.
I've been to all these cities. I've been to Philly more times than I can count. Like over 100 times.
Atlanta has more COMPELLING areas than Philly and Seattle is MUCH more compelling.
Philly is a cool little city. It's just not not AS cool.
New York has alot of nice neighborhoods because its so big, but it also has alot of ghetto areas as well. Not taking about crimerates but just pure ghettos no city comes close to New York in pure number of ghettos. New York City has to many ghetto areas to count.
Alot more then Philly, Chicago, SF, Boston, DC etc. NYC had around 530 murders is 2010 and thats considered a good year.
Instead of largest amount of walkable/non-hood areas, I think we should focus on what cities have the largest concentration of them. In terms of pure area, Chicago might win, but percentage wise, SF might win. Quality over Quantity?
This is the basic argument I am getting at. It isn't like Wicker Park or Hyde Park in Chicago are exactly connected they are surrounded by ghetto and/or industrialization. I think if it is connected and has city subway access then it is pretty game.
They probably all have walkable areas!
This reminds me of one of the stupid lead stories on aol or forbes
Almost every american city is promoting exercise and showcasing their parks dept and exercise areas.
Of course they do, why do you think I selected them...
did you read the question? Which one has the most. ...
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