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Which city has the better architecture? I find both cities strikingly similar when it comes to their historic architectural fabric, and both of them have some dense and really impressive housing stock. Which one tops the other? Should be a close battle.
Personally? Philadelphia. Philly has more of a comprehensive storybook of architectural styles. You can find 1700s homes and colonial buildings. You can find rows and rows of 18th and 19th century rowhouses. You can find beaux arts buildings and neo-classical/neo-gothic architecture everywhere. Its skyline is more of a mixture. Philly also has lots of beautiful new postmodern/contemporary buildings/skyscrapers, which Detroit barely has.
Detroit has great architecture; unfortunately most of it is neglected, destroyed, or bound to be destroyed. It's also not to the same extent as Philly. It would have been a tougher call comparing 1935 Detroit to 1935 Philly, but Philly goes back to pre-Revolutionary War days, which gives it another element: longggg history.
Philadelphia by far. I've never found Detroit to have wonderful residential architecture (mostly frame houses), although Detroit has some beautiful historical skyscrapers. Personally I would have a hard time differentiating the residential architecture of Detroit and cities like Cleveland and Buffalo. Philadelphia on the other hand has far more impressive neighborhoods and commercial corridors.
Hmmmmmmm ... this one's tough. Detroit and Philly both have so many examples of wonderful architecture.
I'd have to go with Philadelphia in this match up tho!
Location: Detroit's eastside, downtown Detroit in near future!
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Philadelphia by far. I've never found Detroit to have wonderful residential architecture (mostly frame houses), although Detroit has some beautiful historical skyscrapers. Personally I would have a hard time differentiating the residential architecture of Detroit and cities like Cleveland and Buffalo. Philadelphia on the other hand has far more impressive neighborhoods and commercial corridors.
what do you mean by frame houses? I think people are just unfimilar with our architecture. I'll post some streetveiws.
Very difficult to choose a winner here, but would have to give the edge to Philly due to the residential neighborhoods in the city. BTW I'm not a big skyline fanatic so on skyline I would still have to give it to Philly but doesn't really matter to me any how.
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