Please register to participate in our discussions with 2 million other members - it's free and quick! Some forums can only be seen by registered members. After you create your account, you'll be able to customize options and access all our 15,000 new posts/day with fewer ads.
- Landscape: LA: Seattle is a narrow isthmus surrounded by water and many rolling hills. LA is more landlocked being that it is mostly inland from the coast and is flatter (much more so than Seattle). Denver is more akin to LA given the similar general flatness of the city proper (not discrediting LA's huge mountains!) and the fact that Denver is no way as sea-faring as Seattle.
- Culture: Seattle: LA is truly a beast of it's own given it's size. It is a tale of two cities; part of it is lush posh on the westside and part of it is a struggling working class in the central/south/east/north. Seattle is pretty homogeneous, culturally-speaking and I feel Denver is more similar in that sense.
- Urban Feel/Form: LA: This is difficult since all 3 cities are built roughly in the same era and were all mainly built around streetcar transportation. I would say Denver is more similar to LA since Seattle's topography creates a very eclectic form of urbanity; much less land and more hilly, so houses/apartments are more densely built together, are taller to maximize our ever-famous "views," and Seattle's urbanity is focused on an "urban village" model in that Seattle has a main downtown but outside of that are multiple urban villages which in and of themselves form little downtowns. LA, in comparison, has urbanity stretched out along main boulevards but there aren't "urban villages" in the same sense except for Westwood and Hollywood. LA has its main downtown which is traditionally urban and then urban boulevards that run from the East to West. In between all of those boulevards are single family homes. Denver is built pretty similarly.
- Landscape: LA: Seattle is a narrow isthmus surrounded by water and many rolling hills. LA is more landlocked being that it is mostly inland from the coast and is flatter (much more so than Seattle). Denver is more akin to LA given the similar general flatness of the city proper (not discrediting LA's huge mountains!) and the fact that Denver is no way as sea-faring as Seattle.
- Culture: Seattle: LA is truly a beast of it's own given it's size. It is a tale of two cities; part of it is lush posh on the westside and part of it is a struggling working class in the central/south/east/north. Seattle is pretty homogeneous, culturally-speaking and I feel Denver is more similar in that sense.
- Urban Feel/Form: LA: This is difficult since all 3 cities are built roughly in the same era and were all mainly built around streetcar transportation. I would say Denver is more similar to LA since Seattle's topography creates a very eclectic form of urbanity; much less land and more hilly, so houses/apartments are more densely built together, are taller to maximize our ever-famous "views," and Seattle's urbanity is focused on an "urban village" model in that Seattle has a main downtown but outside of that are multiple urban villages which in and of themselves form little downtowns. LA, in comparison, has urbanity stretched out along main boulevards but there aren't "urban villages" in the same sense except for Westwood and Hollywood. LA has its main downtown which is traditionally urban and then urban boulevards that run from the East to West. In between all of those boulevards are single family homes. Denver is built pretty similarly.
Haha bumping a thread that died over a year ago just to post that. Feel free to offer some support for your counter argument.
The densely built part is what I'm refuting, the intense built area consists of a very small area compared to Los Angeles, going east it becomes suburban real quick as well as south and north, almost rural like in some parts, remember I do live here.
Honestly people, Seattle looks like mayberry outside of the immediate downtown area, go ahead and do random drop pins around Seattle and LA and tell me which one is more structurally dense as Gatsby suggested. I did not cherry pick either, these streetviews are literally a mile or 2 outside of downtown.
Seattle is more similar with the population and outdoorsy culture. l.a. matches better with the topography (land & mountains with no water near downtown )
The densely built part is what I'm refuting, the intense built area consists of a very small area compared to Los Angeles, going east it becomes suburban real quick as well as south and north, almost rural like in some parts, remember I do live here.
Seattle does have significant swaths of single-family homes, but so does LA. LA has urban boulevards bracketing those single family homes, while Seattle has urban nodes, i.e. Urban villages spread throughout the city. Both LA and Seattle are at about 8,000 people per square mile, making them two of the denser big cities in the country and both substantially denser than Denver.
Please register to post and access all features of our very popular forum. It is free and quick. Over $68,000 in prizes has already been given out to active posters on our forum. Additional giveaways are planned.
Detailed information about all U.S. cities, counties, and zip codes on our site: City-data.com.
Please register to participate in our discussions with 2 million other members - it's free and quick! Some forums can only be seen by registered members. After you create your account, you'll be able to customize options and access all our 15,000 new posts/day with fewer ads.
