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Originally Posted by urbaneducator415
I don't know either city well, but when I check out Google Maps, it does seem as Dallas has denser, more walkable neighborhoods. Uptown Dallas and Deep Ellum look especially unique.
Are there equivalents in Houston?
The equivalent neighborhood in Houston is Midtown but I do find Uptown Dallas more walkable.
To me Dallas is more like Atlanta where most of the city isn’t walkable at all but you have half a dozen neighborhoods that are extremely walkable. In Houston, most of the city is semi-walkable but nothing stands out in its walkability.
San Antonio has a long list of walkable neighborhoods outside the CBD that are full of amenities. Over 10k residential units have been built in the urban core over the past few years with thousands more either under construction or in the pipeline. Southtown-King William, Pearl District, Lavaca, River North, Museum Reach, Midtown Brackenridge, Tobin Hill, St. Mary's Strip, St. Paul Square, Lower Broadway, Government Hill, Alamo Heights, and up and coming districts of Lone Star and Cattleman Square. Hemisfair Park is also being transformed into a walkable urban neighborhood for both residents and visitors.
I wore out shoes walking around many of these areas, but I still wouldn't say most of those are very walkable as discussed in that thread. King William for example isn't all that pedestrian geared. Compare it to say The Garden District in New Orleans. Or Museum District in Houston. All three look like they are old school street car suburbs. Did they ever build the rail on Broadway? That area and Alamo heights are kinda scary for pedestrians actually. All are charming neighborhoods but Downtown, RiverNorth and Pearl are the ones I found that were most walkable. Breckenridge area is over of my favorite spots in SA and I have walked that area a lot, but I wouldn't list it as walkable either.
Anyway, what had been going on around the St Mary's area. That's an area I haven't been to in a while and I'm interested in what has happened since
This is pretty accurate. whereas Dallas and Atlanta have zoning and a few really cool places to walk in Houston is more generally walkable. Houston has the advantage when it comes to parks and how they compliment popular areas of the city. Hermann park is amazing and so is Buffalo Bayou Park and Memorial Park.
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The equivalent neighborhood in Houston is Midtown but I do find Uptown Dallas more walkable.
To me Dallas is more like Atlanta where most of the city isn’t walkable at all but you have half a dozen neighborhoods that are extremely walkable. In Houston, most of the city is semi-walkable but nothing stands out in its walkability.
This is pretty accurate. whereas Dallas and Atlanta have zoning and a few really cool places to walk in Houston is more generally walkable. Houston has the advantage when it comes to parks and how they compliment popular areas of the city. Hermann park is amazing and so is Buffalo Bayou Park and Memorial Park.
I don't understand that logic at all. Houston, Dallas, and Atlanta look fairly similar outside of their respected cores. All three are auto-oriented, no matter how 'developed' it looks. I do completely agree with central city parks comparing Houston to Dallas. We need to work on that for sure.
I'm gonna go with San Antonio on this one since it has the most intact core and the potential to grow from it.
I don't understand that logic at all. Houston, Dallas, and Atlanta look fairly similar outside of their respected cores. All three are auto-oriented, no matter how 'developed' it looks. I do completely agree with central city parks comparing Houston to Dallas. We need to work on that for sure.
I'm gonna go with San Antonio on this one since it has the most intact core and the potential to grow from it.
In the downtown area yeah though I don't see it as a runaway these days like it use to be. But outside downtown, I think Houston and Dallas easily beats SA here and has a greater potential to do so when it comes to walkable neighborhoods.
I don't understand that logic at all. Houston, Dallas, and Atlanta look fairly similar outside of their respected cores. All three are auto-oriented, no matter how 'developed' it looks. I do completely agree with central city parks comparing Houston to Dallas. We need to work on that for sure.
I'm gonna go with San Antonio on this one since it has the most intact core and the potential to grow from it.
San Antonio retains more pre-WWII neighborhood nodes and commercial districts than the other cities.
Some have mentioned Dallas as being similar to Atlanta...but being very familiar with both, in reality Atlanta has about a couple dozen walkable older neighborhoods (streetcar suburbs), while Dallas only has about a handful. Once you get outside the city, Atlanta's walkability drops off more than Dallas, which due to topography retains more of a grid.
I grew up in Houston before moving around a lot...and Houston only has two walkable areas outside/adjacent to downtown.
None of these cities are designed for walking. Let's be realistic. All of these places were never designed to be walkable. They never developed a d grew as walkable places. They are all way too large geographically.
They cant be rebuilt to be like Boston. New York, San Francisco, Seattle etc where many points of interest are within a couple miles of each other. How can you fix that problem?
Just because you build a dense neighborhood in the middle of a sprawling area that won't thereby make the city walkable. No, it will only make that particular neighborhood walkable.
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