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This was one metric to compare cores - there are stats to compare larger areas, even MSAs etc. All decent sized cities have multiple cbds etc - this is only one metric and an attempt to compare CORE centers not alll the peripheral places
[quote=coo77;17077784]It would have been nice if the report had shown what they defined as the "CBD" of a city (what streets it was bounded by, etc...). New York got 7.8 square miles of CBD for example while every other city on the list has under 3.3 square miles. Chicago has a land area almost twice as large as the loop considered its CBD.
I know here in Los Angeles, "Downtown" is usually considered the 4 square mile area bounded by the 101 on the north, 110 on the west, 10 on the south, and L.A. River on the east. This 4 square mile area has 470,000 employees in industries from finance, fashion, education, arts, jewelry, retail, manufacturing, etc... However the report uses a 1.25 square mile area for downtown that only includes the financial district of downtown. CBD is "Central Business District" not CFD or "Central Financial District" and those other industries are certainly a part of the downtown economy.
I was wondering why dt LA was so small on the list. Coming from Seattle, dt LA seems much larger.
Pittsburgh's downtown population (Golden Triangle only) has well over 100,000 people workingdaily (140,000). The downtown working population grew 25% since 2000 and more people work in downtown now than at any time in its history. If you include Northshore/Southside/Uptown/Oakland, This number would be even more impressive.
It is referring to what most cities consider their Financial Districts such as the Loop in Chicago. I would have preferred the original poster copy and paste the tables as Indianapolis CPB is actually 1.47 sq mi (hence the term Mile Square) but downtown itself is 6.5 sq mi of territory.
It would have been nice if the report had shown what they defined as the "CBD" of a city (what streets it was bounded by, etc...). New York got 7.8 square miles of CBD for example while every other city on the list has under 3.3 square miles. Chicago has a land area almost twice as large as the loop considered its CBD.
I know here in Los Angeles, "Downtown" is usually considered the 4 square mile area bounded by the 101 on the north, 110 on the west, 10 on the south, and L.A. River on the east. This 4 square mile area has 470,000 employees in industries from finance, fashion, education, arts, jewelry, retail, manufacturing, etc... However the report uses a 1.25 square mile area for downtown that only includes the financial district of downtown. CBD is "Central Business District" not CFD or "Central Financial District" and those other industries are certainly a part of the downtown economy.
I was wondering why dt LA was so small on the list. Coming from Seattle, dt LA seems much larger.
Everyone's downtown is cut short because not all of what people living in their respective cities is actually considered downtown. For instance, DC has places that even share borders with downtown like SW, Capitol Riverfront, and Noma which touch downtown yet aren't included because they aren't considered part of the CBD even though you don't know where DC's downtown stops and those places begin while driving through DC.
For Boston its kind of cheap because they surpress it to just over 1 sq mile when really it can cover as much as three to some Definitions, like including out to copley square, not Just Finiatial District, Northend, Theatre Distict, West End./
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