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Cool video of the Center of Philadelphia including Center City, Old City and University City. Showcases some of the construction going on in the city too if you look close enough.
I'll be a homer....Seattle at the top, based on a combination of scale and percentage. Others win by percentage, possibly Austin.
We're up to something like 33,000 housing units started in about 9.3 years in four square miles. Also 16,000,000 sf of offices and 4,000 hotel rooms. We just replaced an elevated highway with a tunnel and soon a waterfront boulevard. We're rebuilding most of Key Arena and adding a second convention center. Light rail is being extended out of Downtown in one direction and was already extended in another, all grade-separated. In this decade, Downtown Seattle has hit the scale (if not the cohesion) of a downtown Boston or Philly. We've also done this with a lot fewer cars and parking spaces than any Sunbelt contender.
Seattle
Austin
NYC (small percentage, but huge scale)
Nashville
LA
Location: That star on your map in the middle of the East Coast, DMV
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Some of these cities have good growth downtown primarily, and others downtown and the bulk of the urban core both are booming rapidly.
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