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Why are you refusing to show us google maps of the most walkable streets in LA outside downtown? Seems like you know very well that they don't match up to the most walkable streets in DC.
Why are you refusing to show us google maps of the most walkable streets in LA outside downtown? Seems like you know very well that they don't match up to the most walkable streets in DC.
You think you can just can't continue to say anything on the internet and think it's going to stick. DC is not full of strip malls in fact there aren't any in the urban core of the city, there's no space for it. LA has strip malls in its urban core, because there is space for them, Ive been to multiple.
Your the one who continues to bring up West Hollywood's urbanity and walkability yet somehow when mentioning the Grove your automatically taking it out saying that doesn't count, lol.
Again it's not like people are trying to change you guys opinions on which place you like more or where you'd prefer to live. The arguments your putting forward however don't prove anything about LA being more urban in comparison than DC, LA is simply larger with greater population.
i find it hilarious dc guys are picking tiny random strip malls as if that represents an entire neighborhood.
Insecurity sucks.
Heres a few more on the eastside not named koreatown or westlake
east hollywood (hollywood, sunset, western, santa monica
hollywood (huge), vine, hollywood, sunset, cahuenga, la brea)
larchmont village
los feliz (hollywood, vermont, hillhurst)
silver lake
echo park
highland park
pico union
boyle hts (huge, ceasar chavez and 1 st)
arts district
chinatown/el purblo
little tokyo
all have walkeable commercial districts, some more than one.
Outside of hillhurst/ larchmont they arent just 4-5 blocks.
Why are you refusing to show us google maps of the most walkable streets in LA outside downtown? Seems like you know very well that they don't match up to the most walkable streets in DC.
He has time for 200 nonsensical replies, but apparently no time for a quick google maps search.
Here's a link to LA's Koreatown, easily the densest neighborhood in LA.
It's quite clear that the neighborhood, while fairly dense, is not particularly walkable or pedestrian friendly. You can scroll around the neighborhood and see for yourself.
Note the oversized highway retail signs, geared to the driver. You can see the retail is specifically designed to appeal to someone driving by, not pedestrians, as on any suburban highway, but in a much denser format. Note too the lack of pedestrians and pedestrian-oriented context. Note the wide highway, the narrow sidewalk, the turning lanes.
There appear to be incremental improvements, with plenty of fairly dense infill, but you see the infill tends to still follow an auto-oriented format. Also, I selected the denser, eastern part of the neighborhood. As you head west on Olympic it gets progressively more sprawly.
Now compare this neighborhood to any core neighborhood in the Northeastern U.S.
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