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View Poll Results: The following are America's true urban cities:
Atlanta 34 12.73%
Dallas 30 11.24%
Houston 39 14.61%
Miami 43 16.10%
New Orleans 56 20.97%
Charleston, SC 16 5.99%
Savannah, GA 15 5.62%
Boston 158 59.18%
New York City 209 78.28%
Philadelphia 154 57.68%
Baltimore 101 37.83%
Washington, D.C. 131 49.06%
Buffalo 32 11.99%
Pittsburgh 79 29.59%
Cleveland 57 21.35%
Detroit 74 27.72%
Chicago 170 63.67%
Minneapolis 46 17.23%
Milwaukee 45 16.85%
St. Louis 68 25.47%
Kansas City 20 7.49%
Seattle 73 27.34%
Portland, OR 47 17.60%
San Francisco 141 52.81%
Los Angeles 74 27.72%
San Diego 21 7.87%
Salt Lake City 9 3.37%
Multiple Choice Poll. Voters: 267. You may not vote on this poll

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Old 02-26-2008, 09:19 PM
 
Location: Chicago
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Savannah is urban in the sense that it is somewhat of a planned city. More walkable than Atlanta. Actually, most cities are more walkable than Atlanta. Savannah is what you would call old urban. The same with New Orleans Charleston, Washington DC, Baltimore, Philadelphia, New York, and Boston. Middle urban would be cities like Chicago, Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, San Francisco, St. Louis, Cleveland, Omaha. New urban would be Seattle, Portland, Denver, Galveston, etc.
Chicago's a "middle" urban city???????

How is it possibly a middle urban city? I honestly would like to see an explanation from this.
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Old 02-26-2008, 09:34 PM
 
Location: Pittsburgh
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Chicago's a "middle" urban city???????

How is it possibly a middle urban city? I honestly would like to see an explanation from this.
I would also like an explanation...no offense to the great cities of Cleveland and Omaha, but Pittsburgh's urbanization is at least a level above these cities.
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Old 02-26-2008, 09:41 PM
 
Location: Chicago
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Here's some st. louis pics for all you doubters (i think this goes for cities like pittsburg, detroit, cleveland, and Bmore as well that are often overlooked in the "urban" scene) These cities like st. louis have history and culture and were the reason why america is what it is today:

Front skyline: (illusion because its a north to south view, when the city runs east to west)



Behind the "downtown" view, clayton looking towards downtown, not including clayton (actually a 10 mile stretch is what youre looking at to give a perspective on size):





Clayton:








midtown




central west end


And clayton:






A litte urban perspective:





















































Photos thanks to urbanstl.com and urban-photos.com!!!!
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Old 02-26-2008, 11:32 PM
 
Location: C.R. K-T
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Completely incorrect. Philadelphia is easily in the top 10 ten cities in the U.S. for density at 10,882.8 people/sq. mile. The 4,201 figure is people/sq. KILOMETER. Huge difference:

Philadelphia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Another example of the pitfalls of the dual-measuring system. Metric-only please!
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Old 02-27-2008, 06:16 AM
 
Location: Los Altos Hills, CA
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Love those LA pics...I was down there Monday morning and loved it(as usual)
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Old 02-27-2008, 07:22 AM
 
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Cincinnati nuff' said lol

photos courtesy of cincyimages.com









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Old 02-27-2008, 10:36 AM
 
Location: Pittsburgh
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Cincinnati nuff' said lol

photos courtesy of cincyimages.com

I think you have to say a bit more to crack the top ten...at least from what I've seen, you still have: New York, San Francisco, Chicago, Philadelphia, Boston, Baltimore, Washington DC, Pittsburgh and New Orleans in front of you!

But, I do think Cincinnati deserves to be in the top 10.
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Old 02-27-2008, 10:43 AM
 
Location: Chicago
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For me, to be truly urban there has to be some grittiness. New York, Chicago,
Boston, Detroit, Philly, etc. Imho, there are no "real" urban centers below the Mason Dixon line, or west of the Mississippi. But that's just my narrow view.
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Old 02-27-2008, 10:55 AM
 
Location: Pittsburgh
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For me, to be truly urban there has to be some grittiness. New York, Chicago,
Boston, Detroit, Philly, etc. Imho, there are no "real" urban centers below the Mason Dixon line, or west of the Mississippi. But that's just my narrow view.
Now Baltimore is a truly beautiful urban city below the Mason-Dixon line:


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Old 02-27-2008, 11:02 AM
 
Location: Chicago
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Now Baltimore is a truly beautiful urban city below the Mason-Dixon line:


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Baltimore is one of my favorite food cities. I'm all about seafood.
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