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Houston is already known to be its own city with its own form. Nobody is "rushing" to do anything; the OP of the thread posed a question, and the people responded. Simple as that.
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Id be more inclined to buy that if:
1) I hadn't seen so many of these threads.
2) If Houston were really known as a city with its own form. Houston IS a city with its own form, but its not KNOWN for being a city with its own form outside Texas and parts of the South.
1) I hadn't seen so many of these threads.
2) If Houston were really known as a city with its own form. Houston IS a city with its own form, but its not KNOWN for being a city with its own form outside Texas and parts of the South.
1.) Avoid discussions you don't feel like participating in.
2.) Irrelevant.
Architecturally, Miami is diffirent form Houston. Off the bat, the abundance of Brick housing in Houston is a far cry from the stucco that is used on every House South of Daytona. Miami's housing stock is colorful and has influences from The Bahamas and other parts of the Caribbean. Also Miami's abundance of Spanish style homes, makes it indistiguishable from any city except maybe LA, or Phoenix. While Houston does have certain areas near the Gulf that have Spanish style homes and palm trees, that style is far from being the majority of what suburban Houston looks like, where as you'll be hard pressed to find any neighborhood in South Florida that doesn't have an abundance of either Palm Trees, or Spanish-style homes.
And Coconut Palms can't be grown in abundance outside of Miami and Honolulu, so if you had to guess what city a neighborhood was in by photo, just seeing those palms would narrow it down to only two cities(Miami and Honolulu). Miami is too distinguishable from the rest of The US, and I'm not just talking about Miami Beach or Coral Gables, I'm talking ever little insignificant suburb of Miami like Medley, Hialeah Gardens, Opa-Locka North, Kendall West, Olympia Heights, South Miami Heights, Cutler Bay, West Perrine, Florida City, ALL look like Miami and don't really resemble any other suburbs in any other american cities.
How many other cities most Historic neighborhoods are primarily dominated by Spanish/Mediterranean Revival architecture built in the early-1900's?
Architecturally, Miami is diffirent form Houston. Off the bat, the abundance of Brick housing in Houston is a far cry from the stucco that is used on every House South of Daytona. Miami's housing stock is colorful and has influences from The Bahamas and other parts of the Caribbean. Also Miami's abundance of Spanish style homes, makes it indistiguishable from any city except maybe LA, or Phoenix. While Houston does have certain areas near the Gulf that have Spanish style homes and palm trees, that style is far from being the majority of what suburban Houston looks like, where as you'll be hard pressed to find any neighborhood in South Florida that doesn't have an abundance of either Palm Trees, or Spanish-style homes.
The OP seemed to be referring more to urban infill aesthetic rather than current housing stocks. That is, in the event Houston fills up its core/densifies, which city would it resemble more: LA or Miami?
The OP seemed to be referring more to urban infill aesthetic rather than current housing stocks. That is, in the event Houston fills up its core/densifies, which city would it resemble more: LA or Miami?
It's probably still neither.
From what I've seen, Miami isn't building infill like this. I don't know about LA, though.
Ultimately, Houston will be distinct from both cities architecturally. However, if one of either cities were to be chosen as a closer match, I'd say Miami over LA, simply because both cities have architectural adaptions relating to the hot humid weather (light, pastel colors, shiny towers, etc), albeit playing out in differing ways.
This along with townhomes as well. Now the 6-8 story apartment buildings whether mixed use or not has gone up in rapid numbers as much as these developments that I linked to in my other post in Houston.
Ultimately, Houston will be distinct from both cities architecturally. However, if one of either cities were to be chosen as a closer match, I'd say Miami over LA, simply because both cities have architectural adaptions relating to the hot humid weather (light, pastel colors, shiny towers, etc), albeit playing out in differing ways.
But most of Houston's architecture isn't composed of Pastels. It's a mix of Red Brick, some pastels, Alot of non-pastel colored New Urbanism. Miami is a MAJORITY Pastels, Pastel-colored New Urbanism, and hardly ANY Brick.
I'm surprised those links you posted are so close to downtown houston.
That wouldn't be dense for la.
La' s urbanization burst has caught national/global attention. I dont see Miami or Houston catching up.
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