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Too hung up on traditiomal.
la has more walkable areas than dc does, easily.
and it only going to become more walkable as it adds all the housing to its commercial streets.
LA has more residential areas as a percentage (single family) than DC. DC has more rowhouses, commercial and residential buildings.
It seems that your perception of things is what's misled.
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The fact that the DC metro area has double the office space of SF is laughable.
Yeah but this even more laughable:
Once again, from 2013
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Furthermore, from the standpoint of productivity per square footage of office space there's a stark difference between these 2 regions.
DC MSA: $448.741 Billion GDP Divided by 426 Million Sq Ft = $1,053 GDP per square foot
SF&SJ MSAs Combined: $534.403 Billion GDP Divided by 203 Million Sq Ft = $2,632 GDP per square foot
So imagine all the taxpayer money being WASTED on highly unproductive government offices in DC, spent on maintenance, utilities, renovations, etc. DC could technically cut it's office market in HALF and honestly everyone could still fit and wasteful spending would be cut significantly.
Our office space yields twice as much productivity as DC. 2.5 times more productivity in fact.
It seems that your perception of things is what's misled.
Yeah but this even more laughable:
Once again, from 2013
Our office space yields twice as much productivity as DC. 2.5 times more productivity in fact.
The point of government is necessarily to generate revenue for itself. Nor is it the point of many diplomatic missions, think thanks, NGOs or not-for-profits (oh, how surprising). This is a pretty laughably dumb metric.
So is the one about office space since different industries have very different needs when it comes to physical space.
Too hung up on traditiomal.
la has more walkable areas than dc does, easily.
and it only going to become more walkable as it adds all the housing to its commercial streets.
Where in LA are there walkable areas comparable to DC?
I can't think of even one LA neighborhood that would be comparable to, say, Dupont Circle or Adams Morgan.
DC has a height limit which does make the city seem a lot less urban and it's extra long blocks also take away from it's urbanity.
I'll give you longer blocks, but building heights have nothing to do with urbanity. And DC doesn't have unusually low building heights, it just doesn't have the outliers (a few tall towers) like in a SF.
Chicago has long building blocks too. SF not so much. Boston and Philly, definitely no.
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Chicago and SF feel like bigger cities than DC and they are... (DC if bigger than SF land wise but SF is more urban).
No, the three metros are about the same size, and have roughly similarly sized cores.
Can you please put up some links of these walkable areas from google maps? One that is on the same level of DC.
Again, those are two areas.
La is more than just a few areas.
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