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Kansas City Missouri Glory days are long long past!!! 1960's........
If you're going to talk about Kansas City's real glory days, you have to go back to the era of Boss Tom Pendergast - the 1920s and 1930s.
That was when the city had a reputation as a wide-open town, where the Pendergast machine acted as though the 18th Amendment had never taken effect. These were the years when Kansas City was the place to be if you wanted to hear great jazz at all hours of the day. (The Mutual Musicians Foundation carries the torch for that legacy, but I hear its finances have become wobbly.)
My hometown was a very nice place to grow up in the 1960s, and I wouldn't trade growing up there then for growing up anywhere else in the country at the time. But today's city is less blah than that one was. It seems to have gotten in touch with its inner Boss Tom and let its hair down some again.
It will never be as important on the national stage again as it was in the first four decades of the last century, but it does remain the principal metropolis of the Central Plains, and I don't see that changing in either the near or the distant future.
And like the city I now call home, it's underrated.
Jersey City- poor mans Brooklyn
Somerville- poor mans Cambridge
Towson-poor mans Silver Spring
Somerville a "poor man's Cambridge" still?
Okay, it's still not as affluent as Cambridge, but ever since the Red Line came to Davis Square, its western reaches have really taken off. And there's now Assembly Square, a nice little chunk of Instant Urbanism on the other end of the city.
I predict the GLX will do the same thing for Union Square, at which point we can retire that label completely.
Okay, it's still not as affluent as Cambridge, but ever since the Red Line came to Davis Square, its western reaches have really taken off. And there's now Assembly Square, a nice little chunk of Instant Urbanism on the other end of the city.
I predict the GLX will do the same thing for Union Square, at which point we can retire that label completely.
I think Somerville still has that reputation. It seems Somerville has had more transformative growth with Union Square, Assembly Square and Davis Square, however, growth in Cambridge is a bit stronger with a little more potential with the SoMa, MxD and Volpe Projects coupled with the massive Cambridge Crossing project. But for the foreseeable future it looks as if Cambridge might still stay there. Although the GLX is going to the newly named Medford/Tufts stop,the 2030s should bring the Grand Junction Rail project. There is just more to work within Cambridge since a good ~70% of Somerville are triple-deckers.. which definitely limit growth potential. Although, I'll be frequenting ArchBoston and Bldup to see what the new redevelopment finalized ideas are for Sully square. Encore is pouring a lot of money into that area
So who knows, maybe in 10 years Somerville will be the rich man's Cambridge lol
OKC = Poor man's Dallas
Little Rock = Poor man's Memphis
Memphis = Poor man's St. Louis
Charlotte = Poor man's Atlanta
Phoenix = Poor man's Los Angeles
Portland = Poor man's Seattle
Seattle = Poor man's San Francisco
Austin = Poor man's Portland
Salt Lake City = Poor man's Denver
Okay, it's still not as affluent as Cambridge, but ever since the Red Line came to Davis Square, its western reaches have really taken off. And there's now Assembly Square, a nice little chunk of Instant Urbanism on the other end of the city.
I predict the GLX will do the same thing for Union Square, at which point we can retire that label completely.
Yes, Somerville pretty much = Cambridge sans a couple higher ed places named Harvard and MIT (though Tufts is just over the Somerville border in Medford)... But I thought I read somewhere that Somerville is had the greatest pop density in the region (and therefore the state). No wonder they're getting the GLX a couple decades after the RLX to Alewife -- apparently Deval Patrick, as governor, was largely responsible for getting the moribund GLX project back on track, literally... Upon completion, Somerville will have more intimate rapid transit service than Boston itself.
Yes, Somerville pretty much = Cambridge sans a couple higher ed places named Harvard and MIT... But I thought I read somewhere that Somerville is had the greatest pop density in the region (and therefore the state). No wonder they're getting the GLX a couple decades of the RLX to Alewife -- apparently Deval Patrick, as governor, was largely responsible for getting the moribund GLX project back on track, literally... Upon completion, Somerville will have more intimate rapid transit service than Boston itself.
Somerville already has better transit than some of the poorer areas of southern Boston proper. The GLX was envision in the early 1990s when Somerville was rough and just starting to improve-they thought it was needed but in hindsight the congestion and traffic isn't really coming form somerville addn they don't need it. Its coming, its nice but would have been better to do something like this is southern Boston itself.
Augusta = A poor man’s Greenville (SC)
Mobile = A poor man’s New Orleans
Wilmington = A poor man’s Hampton Roads
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