The most urban neighborhoods in D.C. (by ranking) (Washington: live in, versus)

[DCforever]

Originally Posted by Paiz

I only listed a top five, and I think all of the neighborhoods I named are more urban than G-town and Cap. Hill or at least tied with numbers #4 and #5 respectively.

Thanks for thinking. Others think not.

[DCforever]

Originally Posted by stateofnature

Walkscore.com has Dupont first for their walkability scoring.

Washington D.C., District of Columbia Neighborhoods on Walk Score.

They calculate walkability based on how easy is it to run errands on foot, so that standard correlates pretty strongly with "urban-ness."

I think this has some real merit:

Urban = errands while walking

Suburban = errands using car

[KStreetQB]

Penn Quarter/Chinatown
U Street
Columbia Heights
Dupont

[King0fthehill]

No DC nabe compares to Washington Heights/Upper Manhattan in terms of density or pedestrian activity. This is because Upper Manhattan is largely comprised of blocks full of 6-story Art-Deco walk-ups. Columbia Heights, at best, is a sprinkling of lobby apartments (primarily west of 14th St.), and tri-level Victorian rowhouses/townhouses.

[14thandYou]

Originally Posted by DCforever

Mt Pleasant was actually one of DCs first suburbs, enabled by the trolly out 14th street. It certainly isn't urban, though very nice.

Que?

If Columbia Heights is "urban," Mt. Pleasant certainly is. Heck, you could argue that the preponderance of big box stores in Columbia Heights makes it *less" urban than Mt. Pleasant.

Regardless, any such list is going to be subjective. I'd posit that all of DC's central neighborhoods are urban to varying degrees; you could make solid arguments pretty much for all of them.

[Paiz]

Originally Posted by DCforever

Thanks for thinking. Others think not.

Well as stated in the first post the rankings I posted are based on opinion, and any other list another poster makes is also an opinion.

[DCforever]

Originally Posted by Paiz

Well as stated in the first post the rankings I posted are based on opinion, and any other list another poster makes is also an opinion.

Opinions are a very unremarkable attribute.

[DCforever]

Originally Posted by 14thandYou

Que?

If Columbia Heights is "urban," Mt. Pleasant certainly is. Heck, you could argue that the preponderance of big box stores in Columbia Heights makes it *less" urban than Mt. Pleasant.

Regardless, any such list is going to be subjective. I'd posit that all of DC's central neighborhoods are urban to varying degrees; you could make solid arguments pretty much for all of them.

Walk Park Rd and "urban" isn't what come to mind. As I said Mt Pleasant was built as one of our first suburbs. That is fact not "opinion."

[Bluefly]

Originally Posted by DCforever

Walk Park Rd and "urban" isn't what come to mind. As I said Mt Pleasant was built as one of our first suburbs. That is fact not "opinion."

You're really sticking to this argument? What does being a first suburb have to do with anything? Brooklyn was a suburb of New York. I just don't get how you could ever - including Park Road - call that suburban. It's wall-to-wall rowhouses surrounding a central, walkable business district.

[Dennis18708]

I don't understand why people compare NYC neighborhoods to DC neighborhoods. Apples and oranges.