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I dont have a gripe wuth the land size either. It actually works out to an advantage having fewer city officials. My gripe is with city building ordinances that encourage new developments instead of filling in existing ones. Houston could have annexed all of Harris county for all i care, but it would be nice if they used up the empty/ virgin lots on the east side and east of 288 first.
All that money being spent to build the grand parkway would have gone so far improving the inner loop. Its weird. Land is cheaper just yards east of downtown than six miles away in the galleria and yet more hirise buildings go up there than near downtown.
That grand parkway development is going to cause more commuting headaches than alleviate them, and its going to encourage more exxon type fleeing from downtown to far flung campuses.
All these new highways are making Houston less like Houston and more like DFW as people and businesses have easier access to areas like Sugarland, The Woodlands, Pearland, etc
All I can say is Dallas beats all of them except Miami which is a tie and people must haven't been on 75N in Dallas from downtown Dallas to Plano is highrises every 1/4 of a mile.People from Dallas are two busy enjoying the entertainment or shopping right now to let C-D just dog it out without a fight.
People always see pics of Dallas from the south but from the north is very very very impressive.Atlanta and Houston have nothing on the continuous of highrise that goes for atleast 20+miles
Lol this isn't true at all. After Downtown/Uptown, you have CityPlace and a couple of midrises near by. Then you have a small amount at 75/635. Then nothing until north Richardson at 75/PGBT. This is nothing compared to Houston.
Parts of it are needed but the whole thing doesn't need to go under construction one phase at a time. Blame Bob Lanier for Houston not having a heavy rail system.
All I can say is Dallas beats all of them except Miami which is a tie and people must haven't been on 75N in Dallas from downtown Dallas to Plano is highrises every 1/4 of a mile.People from Dallas are two busy enjoying the entertainment or shopping right now to let C-D just dog it out without a fight.
People always see pics of Dallas from the south but from the north is very very very impressive.Atlanta and Houston have nothing on the continuous of highrise that goes for atleast 20+miles
What do high rises have to do with a city being an Alpha world city
Well, the metrics used for the classifications are pretty arbitrary imo. But I'll go ahead and say:
Miami
...
Houston
Atlanta
Dallas
Is my ranking. Dallas is the largest and growing quickly, but it seems like the least global of all of America's big cities. For instance:
Dallas ranks fourth among the four cities in terms of international O/D air traffic, by a sound margin. Despite being the largest of the cities and having a significantly larger immigrant population than Atlanta. To me this hints of a lack of international business clout. In terms of connecting traffic, Dallas does far worse yet. The other three have anywhere from 50% to 300% more international traffic than Dallas.
Dallas also has a relatively small share of international fliers flying direct (66%). Well behind Atlanta (78%), Houston (81%), and Miami (88%)--with their larger volumes, to boot. Dallas seems to be less of a gateway to the US, and more of a place other cities (namely Houston) serve as a gateway to.
The consular presence is also almost completely lacking in Dallas. Like, shockingly so. "World Cities", in my book, don't have virtually all of their foreign consular services handled by other cities. World cities are where consulates want to be located.
I normally don't think of cities as in competition with each other (in terms of economics, they rarely are), but in terms of international clout Dallas seems to be firmly playing second fiddle within its own state. Miami, Houston, and Atlanta do a much better job standing on their own two feet with regard to all things international. This is going to be a tough trend to reverse.
Again, these aren't really the metrics the organization who compiles the rankings cares about. But, to me, these are prerequisites to being a "world city".
Ok and? I didn't say Atlanta doesn't have multiple employment areas. Nor did I mention Houston has them as well. That's not what I was getting at anyway. I was saying that Atlanta focuses on downtown and Midtown and Buckhead. While Houston focuses on the entire loop plus the galleria plus many places outside the beltway. Atlanta just doesn't plop highrises or new urban districts all over town in random places like Houston does. I do agree that Houston's employment centers needs better connectivity with transit. But that goes back to politics on why they don't have that now.
Atlanta also has Perimeter Center,and Cumberland-Vinings areas.These areas are important employment centers that are self sustaining districts.There is also transit in theses areas as well.There are other areas forming at different levels like Aerotropolis in Hapeville where the new Porshe Headquarters is being located.
Im not sure how that compares with Houston.
In Dallas's defense they do the consular office based on Proximity. Houston has long been the most international City for the Texas, OK, AR, LA area so I guess its a no brainer where to locate the office for that section of the US.
Looks Like Dallas has 4 offices, but that it only one less than Philly. Seattle, Denver and Honolulu have more than both Philly and Dallas, but that is just because they are the biggest thing for a wide area of the US
Atlanta also has Perimeter Center,and Cumberland-Vinings areas.These areas are important employment centers that are self sustaining districts.There is also transit in theses areas as well.There are other areas forming at different levels like Aerotropolis in Hapeville where the new Porshe Headquarters is being located.
Im not sure how that compares with Houston.
Yeah but again, I never mentioned anything about employment centers.
Lol this isn't true at all. After Downtown/Uptown, you have CityPlace and a couple of midrises near by. Then you have a small amount at 75/635. Then nothing until north Richardson at 75/PGBT. This is nothing compared to Houston.
This isn't true at all you must don't get out and Houston don't have any area that can come close!!!
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That's all I have to add.
