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Do you prefer Urban Cities or Suburban ones
Cities, of course, nobody wants to live in a giant suburb.
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Cities, of course, nobody wants to live in a giant suburb.
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Can you please explain what makes the Blue cities "suburbs" while the red are "cities"
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Cities, of course, nobody wants to live in a giant suburb.
Clearly they do, since they're the fastest growing cities in the Country while the others are declining or staying stagnant.
Also, I've never understood the nonsensical notion of what constitutes a "real city". Only on C-D do I hear the moronic logic that if you're not dense you aren't a "real city".
It's less about the numbers/statistics and more about the type of built environment, although they are related.
Clearly they do, since they're the fastest growing cities in the Country while the others are declining or staying stagnant.
No they don't, it's just been made artificially convenient for people to live in suburbs due to government subsidies and bad urban planning. There is nothing special about living in a suburb since they exist everywhere in the country.
Minneapolis destroyed too much of it's old core for pedestrian unfriendly development so it's essentially a giant suburb these days, I guess you could argue the same about Memphis. Birmingham still has a decent old core.
Indy, Cincy, Columbus, Cleveland, Kansas city all have good urban cores by American standards. Portland, Providence, and Pittsburgh all have great urban cores. Louisville's is decent enough to keep it's city status, but only barely.
Denver has a horrible downtown core but there is a neighborhood outside of it which looks pretty walkable so maybe it just barely makes it to city status (this might apply to Minneapolis too). The vast majority of LA is suburban hence the label I gave it, LA lacks a strong core so it's really hard to judge it actually. San Diago is a sunbelt suburb through and through.
2. There is nothing that is special about an (urban) city since they exist everywhere in the country.
I have to disagree with this. There are very few big urban cities outside of The Northeast, Chicago, and San Francisco. Maybe a few small ones around the Midwest, and maybe Seattle too, but that's really it. Most cities in The US are giant suburbs.
General rule of thumb for many American cities is that pre-1950 development is the "city" and post 1950 physical boundary expansion is "suburbia" because development and its FHA finance model introduced in the 30s accelerated after WWII.
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