Welcome to City-Data.com Forum!
U.S. CitiesCity-Data Forum Index
Go Back   City-Data Forum > U.S. Forums > General U.S. > City vs. City
 [Register]
Please register to participate in our discussions with 2 million other members - it's free and quick! Some forums can only be seen by registered members. After you create your account, you'll be able to customize options and access all our 15,000 new posts/day with fewer ads.
View detailed profile (Advanced) or search
site with Google Custom Search

Search Forums  (Advanced)
Reply Start New Thread
 
Old 12-01-2015, 09:54 AM
 
4,464 posts, read 5,010,639 times
Reputation: 4717

Advertisements

Quote:
Originally Posted by Dawn.Davenport View Post
What are European suburbs likes?

What American cities compare?
Good question... take a look:

Suburban areas outside Paris
https://www.google.com/maps/@48.8553...8i6656!5m1!1e2

...@RER (regional commuter rail station)

Suburban areas outside Philly



...@ SEPTA regional rail station
https://www.google.com/maps/@40.2428...8i6656!5m1!1e2

These are just a small sample. I'll post more later...
Reply With Quote Quick reply to this message

 
Old 12-01-2015, 10:16 AM
 
Location: Pittsburgh, PA (Morningside)
14,360 posts, read 16,855,527 times
Reputation: 12390
It's hard to generalize about European cities, but the following is mostly true.

In city cores, the most common style of historic housing in most places is midrise tenements/apartment houses (often around six stories). In much of continental Europe, a common layout for these is to be set right on the street, with central courtyards as greenspace in the center. England and Ireland (although not Scotland) are exceptions to this rule, as cities there are dominated by rowhouses. Cities also tend to be denser, and have less greenspace, the further south you travel in Europe.

Suburbs vary dramatically by country as well. In Southern Europe (especially Spain) suburbs also tend to be dominated by apartments. In northern Europe it is common to have detached single-family houses on very small lots (by American standards). People have private yards and driveways, but houses are usually only 5-10 feet away from the street. There's also much more common use of stone walls and privacy hedges than in the U.S. England is again an outlier - the English still like to live in rowhomes (or semi-attached duplexes) even in the suburbs.
Reply With Quote Quick reply to this message
Reply
Please update this thread with any new information or opinions. This open thread is still read by thousands of people, so we encourage all additional points of view.

Quick Reply
Message:


Over $104,000 in prizes was already given out to active posters on our forum and additional giveaways are planned!

Go Back   City-Data Forum > U.S. Forums > General U.S. > City vs. City

All times are GMT -6.

© 2005-2024, Advameg, Inc. · Please obey Forum Rules · Terms of Use and Privacy Policy · Bug Bounty

City-Data.com - Contact Us - Archive 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37 - Top