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By "complete", I mean the walkable village-style neighborhood center has all or most of the following: a grocery store, CVS or Walgreen's-type store, a post office and other neighborhood necessities, restaurants, etc.
Kansas City has Brookside, which is a prime example of what I'm talking about, and our city is lucky to have such a great neighborhood. The only other neighborhoods that *I* know of that are in the same league as Brookside or better are Chicago's North Shore suburbs like Wilmette, Winnetka, Glencoe, etc. I also know Chicago has a ton of other suburbs that fit the bill, but I don't know what they are. Some cities have no such complete neighborhood.
So, does your city have something like Brookside? Here's an illustration of Brookside:
By "complete", I mean the walkable village-style neighborhood center has all or most of the following: a grocery store, CVS or Walgreen's-type store, a post office and other neighborhood necessities, restaurants, etc.
Kansas City has Brookside, which is a prime example of what I'm talking about, and our city is lucky to have such a great neighborhood. The only other neighborhoods that *I* know of that are in the same league as Brookside or better are Chicago's North Shore suburbs like Wilmette, Winnetka, Glencoe, etc. I also know Chicago has a ton of other suburbs that fit the bill, but I don't know what they are. Some cities have no such complete neighborhood.
So, does your city have something like Brookside? Here's an illustration of Brookside:
I'd venture most, if not all, cities have multiple neighborhoods like that - I'm not sure why you think it's unique to Kansas City.
Seattle has at least a dozen neighborhoods that fit your criteria (if not more)
Here are 4-year old streetviews of Ballard (a neighborhood that has seen a ton of new density and development since then, so these are not representative of what it currently looks like), about 6 miles from downtown Seattle:
Most, if not all of them, have been lost of course, due to a combination of steady/rapid population decline and the dismantling of Detroit's mass transit system (or as they call it around here, "progress").
Minus the CVS/Walgreens my own neighborhood is a lot like that. A small but excellent grocery store, a locally owned drug store that's been in business for 100+ years, two bookstores, tons of restaurants, a couple of convenience stores, clothing stores, art galleries, etc. There are bus stops for several routes to other parts of town, a Greyhound and Amtrak station, and you can take a ferry to Alaska from here. It even has a village green where there are frequent events throughout the year, but especially in summer, including a weekly farmers market. Of course, the street car's long gone, but some of the tracks are still there.
Hollywood was once like that. but has morphed into a much more urban area.
How is it more urban?
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