Which is more urban: Detroit or New Orleans? (Baltimore, suburbs, architect)
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FWIW, metro Detroit's economy is much better than NOLA's. Although Detroit is nothing short of a hellish dreamscape, there is much more of a broad middle class in the area than around New Orleans. And that's very typical when comparing the Midwest to the South, both in large cities and small towns.
I just figured that because you couldn't seem to find any neighborhoods outside of downtown area
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how urban can detroit be? it's called the motor city. its the birthplace of the automotive industry and car production capital of the world. when I think of vibrant, dynamic, thriving world class urban centers the last place I think of is detroit. but I do expect there to be plenty of traffic congestion and an extremely autocentric landscape.
how urban can detroit be? it's called the motor city. its the birthplace of the automotive industry and car production capital of the world. when I think of vibrant, dynamic, thriving world class urban centers the last place I think of is detroit. but I do expect there to be plenty of traffic congestion and an extremely autocentric landscape.
Despite what many modern urbanists think, there's nothing inherently non-urban about the automobile. Detroit is, or was, a classic US city with a downtown full of tall buildings and dense development all around.
It's now perhaps "post urban" in the sense of "post apocalyptic", but that's another story, and more linked to the fall of the US automobile industry than its rise.
Despite what many modern urbanists think, there's nothing inherently non-urban about the automobile. Detroit is, or was, a classic US city with a downtown full of tall buildings and dense development all around.
It's now perhaps "post urban" in the sense of "post apocalyptic", but that's another story, and more linked to the fall of the US automobile industry than its rise.
I agree, but I think its a matter of degree. any city is going to plenty of car traffic. but if a city offers you little or no alternative to getting around without a car then I would not consider it to be very 'urban.' the great urban cities of the world tend to have world-class modern transit systems. but detroit has no light rail, no subway system, no nothing. but it does have an antiquated bus system that barely functions and no one uses except the poorest of the poor who live in the inner city.
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