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I wish the LA area kept with the pre-ww2 large apartment architecture of especially european, french, italian, spanish but also art deco and streamline moderne styles. They are so beautiful and mesh very well even now but clash with newer stuff. Downtown LA, Koreatown, to Hancock Park, Miracle Mile, Hollywood has so many of these buildings. So much of the post war apartments and even current styles make me gag. I often look at other American and see similar modern styles. The boxy apartments with"Tetris" colored shapes on exteriors are everywhere. Nice pics of buildings I like in LA.
Maybe it's my bias but LA strikes me as a vibrant and multicultural urban area but Toronto is a real city for hardcore urbanites and LA definitely isn't.
Maybe it's my bias but LA strikes me as a vibrant and multicultural urban area but Toronto is a real city for hardcore urbanites and LA definitely isn't.
I think Toronto is more urban on a per capita basis but there are plenty of parts of LA that are equally as urban (if not more so) than Toronto.
The urban parts of LA, however, don't connect with one another at all like all other traditionally urban cities.
DTLA for example is getting more urban by the minute.
Maybe it's my bias but LA strikes me as a vibrant and multicultural urban area but Toronto is a real city for hardcore urbanites and LA definitely isn't.
LA doesn’t have as large and dense of an urban core as one might expect for a metro of its size, but it’s still a very large urban core by North American standards. The last couple decades has seen LA becoming substantially more urban, especially in the larger downtown, Koreatown, and Hollywood areas, and the process is accelerating. The biggest issue really is that the homeless population has gotten massive and there’s no certainty that this will be improved much in the near future and while that doesn’t address urbanity itself, if your idea of hardcore urbanites means people who try to live in pleasant walkable neighborhoods, then this can be quite a turn-off.
Where did you go to get that picture of the Eastern Columbia building looking down Broadway?'
That's a great shot
I chose LA, but that's just my bias coming through as I haven't had the chance to visit Toronto yet.
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