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Then you start contradicting yourself once you get to that point, such as claiming scientifically impossible postulations.
Thank you.
The same point I was making earlier. It actually is quite offensive, I suppose not if you're in Los Angeles but to any of the other cities being mentioned here. Who admitingly likes to live in a podunk where the only thing going for it is "it's sooooo much like Los Angeles!"?
Chicago's street grid and mixed housing is has a similar concept to L.A., but the housing stock looks clearly different. Nice though.
At least from the street views I found, I prefer LA's housing stock over Chicago's outer neighborhood stock. More interestingly varied, though the more treed look of the Chicago views were a plus. Prefer the urban form and less strip malls of Chicago, though.
The same point I was making earlier. It actually is quite offensive, I suppose not if you're in Los Angeles but to any of the other cities being mentioned here. Who admitingly likes to live in a podunk where the only thing going for it is "it's sooooo much like Los Angeles!"?
From a sane point of view: no one.
I have little love for Los Angeles (though nowhere as much as an LA basher as some on the forum) but I still think the thread topic could be interesting in a geography sense: what other cities are similar to Los Angeles. Better than the constant threads comparing every other city in America to NYC.
Not sure why you would need to take the core out of Miami for it to be similar to Los Angeles. Areas like Little Havana look a whole lot like East Hollywood to me. And East Hollywood is not really in the core of Los Angeles.
I get what you're saying that Chicago seems similar to Los Angeles in some ways. But if you take it too far, You could find outlying districts everywhere that resemble Los Angeles. Chicago has outlying districts with dense detached single family homes. So does New York City. Is Los Angeles similar to New York City?
I get what you're saying that Chicago seems similar to Los Angeles in some ways. But if you take it too far, You could find outlying districts everywhere that resemble Los Angeles. Chicago has outlying districts with dense detached single family homes. So does New York City. Is Los Angeles similar to New York City?
Not all of New York by any means but I would say parts of Queens can be pretty similar. Though the areas you posted seem to be more uniformly SFH than Los Angeles.
Mostly just drawing comparisons between cities though, agree that you could probably mold just about any city to find similarities to LA. NYC and Chicago are pretty far down on the list, I'm with RaymondChandler that Miami is easily the most similar non-CA city - mostly going by street-feel, architecture, layout and not going by scale, obviously.
Also, I didn't have a hard time finding strip malls pretty close to your links But it seems they occur more at the rate of Chicago than Los Angeles.
But even as much as LA and Miami look alike in certain urban areas, they still have their own unique climate, vegetation, culture, etc. As far as climate goes, Miami has a the closest thing to a true topical climate in the continental US. While LA has one of the few Mediterranean climates in the US(I think the bay is Mediterranean also). Really, you can find similarities between SoFla as a whole, and certain areas of SoCal. Both states tried to take advantage of their Spanish history by reviving the Spanish/Mediterranean architecture. They started this revival in the 1930's I believe. But everything I'm saying is nothing new.
It's flat like Chicago, vertically built up along to water like Chicago, where it's densest areas are, the grid looks like a less developed baby Chicago, the elevated rail, and the way the city is conveniently built densely but gives cars a environment to work with. Miami's core being built along the ocean is pretty different than LA's, hence I said the cores aren't comparable for any of the 3.
Architecturally Miami is unique for the US but shares more in common with LA. It's also lacking in pedestrian energy (not including MBFL) and the entertainment industry.
Houston is a newborn in comparison. Closer to Miami's age and Chandler had it when he said it has the skeleton of LA but isn't as filled in yet. Houston's quickly filling in but until it happens Miami is a closer comparison.
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But it seems they occur more at the rate of Chicago than Los Angeles.
