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This is about 3/4ths of Center City Philadelphia and all of University City. This picture probably encompasses about 7 sq miles. This is not including the dense walkable areas of South or Lower North Philadelphia.
In any case it's irrelevant, and everyone on this thread knows that LA is car-oriented, and built totally different than NYC (and really all the Northeast Corridor cities), so I don't understand the arguing. We aren't talking about subtle differences here, like trying to parse out the distinctions between a Dallas and Houston, or between a Boston and Philly.
I have a simple question for you, MichiVegas. When would you say car culture swept America?
Sf honestly looks more built out than Philly does in it's core...
From a build out perspective they are very similar (though today Philly has a few more holes, namely surface lots), in terms of residential density today SF has the edge , historically Philly was more dense in the core than either are today.
Interesting fact in 1780 Center City Philly was over 80K ppsm; Northern Liberties was like 45K ppsm (today they are about 40K and 25K respectively)
From a build out perspective they are very similar, in terms of residential density today SF has the edge , historically Philly was more dense in the core than either are today.
Interesting fact in 1780 Center City Philly was over 80K ppsm; Northern Liberties was like 45K ppsm (today they are about 40K and 25K respectively)
I did this calculation with memph in the Urban Planning forum. In 1920, Philadelphia had a little under 1 million people in 25 square miles.
Berlin, in comparison, had just under 2 million people in 25 square miles.
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As we flew into San Francisco
