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Sounds about right, maybe throw a Mediterranean city in the mix?
hmm... interesting but not sure if there are any that would fit. Despite the climate and some of the topography in a few places there's very little that LA has in common with european mediterranean cities.
Downtown skyline/architecture (hard to distinguish the two)
Massive network of freeways (Houston's are newer & much wider)
Seaport cities & airport hubs of entry into the US.
Huge Hispanic & Asian populations as well as every other nationality represented throughout the world.
Coastal with an abundance of palm trees & other tropical foliage.
Largest cities in California & Texas which also happen to be the nations 2 largest states.
Pancake Flat (LA Basin)
These to me seem like similarities at 30,000 feet. If we're talking from that perspective then I would agree that LA and Houston are very similar. I feel that Houston is moreso the "next" LA than any other city in the US (it also has a chance of raising its profile in a very short timespan).
At the street/built environment level though, Houston is less similar than some of the other cities are.
The things I would look for in a City to "feel like LA" to a visitor would be relatively wide boulevards with frontages comprised primarily of low-to-mid-rise commercial buildings pushed up to the street. The neighborhoods would need to have a mix of single and multi-family housing not higher than 4 or so stories, with most falling in the one-to-two story range.
The cities that come closest to having some of these characteristics are places like Denver, Portland, Seattle, and Miami.
The "LA experience" really is most defined in my opinion by these kinds of wide streets with street-fronting dingy pastel-colored buildings pockmarked with small strip malls.
Definitely not Atlanta. I will say this, if anyone has been to Lima, Peru they would think that LA and Lima are 1st cousins at the very least. Very, very similar cities.
Atlanta because of sprawl
Miami bc of the glitz and glamour + palm trees
You can practically fit the entire population of Atlanta into Hollywood + Koreatown + Westlake - an area about 1/10th the size of Atlanta proper. Atlanta is not like Los Angeles in almost any way I can see. If anything Atlanta seems like a hyper-low-density Boston.
You can practically fit the entire population of Atlanta into Hollywood + Koreatown + Westlake - an area about 1/10th the size of Atlanta proper. Atlanta is not like Los Angeles in almost any way I can see. If anything Atlanta seems like a hyper-low-density Boston.
I don't think much of the core of the Boston metro, say most of the metro within SR-128 resembles Atlanta at all. Density-wise much of the outer Boston metro is similar to Atlanta, but more older small towns and far less pedestrian hostile.
I don't think much of the core of the Boston metro, say most of the metro within SR-128 resembles Atlanta at all. Density-wise much of the outer Boston metro is similar to Atlanta, but more older small towns and far less pedestrian hostile.
Yeah I agree, I guess I meant more on a "meta" level. Small-ish cores with relatively sprawling low-density suburbs that consist of small towns being connected to each other. The cores are nothing alike though.
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