Atlanta vs Houston vs Dallas, Which City will be more urban at the end of the decade? (live, best)
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Everyone on this post is grasping for straws. All these cities will be the same honestly. Most of the people in these cities won’t give up there cars to take transit. They don’t have shopping blvds to bring heavy amounts of people to the city center. Instead they will continue to drive to suburban style malls and shopping plaza.
Peach tree St in Atlanta should have been loaded with restaurants department stores and Shops like Zara Etc. It has the perfect bones with subway stations along that street. Instead everyone is driving to a mall in the city lol.
The car culture is so rampant in all three that you won’t see the sidewalks as vibrant as cities like Philly chicago Boston NYC SF etc.
The cities you named were largely built out in an era where car culture wasn’t a thing.
Older legacy cities and newer sunbelt cities are not built the same. They probably never will be. Most cities in America will never completely take on the look of older cities in the Northeast. That development style ended generations ago. Cities in the sunbelt will have nodes of density/urbanity in a generally suburban style metro area.
LOL. Exactly. Last time I was there, I was staying in the Hotel District right on Peachtree. Friends wanted to go to this restaurant called No Mas just over a mile down the road. When I suggested that I'd walk or rent a bike/scooter to get there, they thought I was crazy, and ended up driving to pick me up, to drive over there. This was the drive: https://www.google.com/maps/dir/33.7...d33.749798!3e0
lol... In the cities you mention, it would be the opposite -- people would think you're either crazy or incredibly lazy for driving that short distance for lunch, through downtown streets.
A 30 minute walk is a bit excessive don’t you think?
Everyone on this post is grasping for straws. All these cities will be the same honestly. Most of the people in these cities won’t give up there cars to take transit. They don’t have shopping blvds to bring heavy amounts of people to the city center. Instead they will continue to drive to suburban style malls and shopping plaza.
Peach tree St in Atlanta should have been loaded with restaurants department stores and Shops like Zara Etc. It has the perfect bones with subway stations along that street. Instead everyone is driving to a mall in the city lol.
The car culture is so rampant in all three that you won’t see the sidewalks as vibrant as cities like Philly chicago Boston NYC SF etc.
Man aint nobody comparing these cities to Philly/Chicago/Boston/NYC or SF. It's a reason we're comparing 3 car centric sprawling metro areas that are pretty similar against one another. It's to see which one will be more urban within a decade. Despite these metros still being more car centric, the cores of each city are still urbanizing more and more. All 3 cores are experiencing developments geared towards more urban living which is something you wouldn't have seen in all 3 of these cities 10 to 20 years ago.
And even though all 3 are closer to each other as far as urbanity goes I still see Atlanta leading the 2 in that category and with a mega project like Centennial Yards I can only see it widening the gap a little bit more.
Man aint nobody comparing these cities to Philly/Chicago/Boston/NYC or SF. It's a reason we're comparing 3 car centric sprawling metro areas that are pretty similar against one another. It's to see which one will be more urban within a decade. Despite these metros still being more car centric, the cores of each city are still urbanizing more and more. All 3 cores are experiencing developments geared towards more urban living which is something you wouldn't have seen in all 3 of these cities 10 to 20 years ago.
And even though all 3 are closer to each other as far as urbanity goes I still see Atlanta leading the 2 in that category and with a mega project like Centennial Yards I can only see it widening the gap a little bit more.
People don't even bother reading the thread and just say things to look intelligent.
Everyone on this post is grasping for straws. All these cities will be the same honestly. Most of the people in these cities won’t give up there cars to take transit. They don’t have shopping blvds to bring heavy amounts of people to the city center. Instead they will continue to drive to suburban style malls and shopping plaza.
Peach tree St in Atlanta should have been loaded with restaurants department stores and Shops like Zara Etc. It has the perfect bones with subway stations along that street. Instead everyone is driving to a mall in the city lol.
The car culture is so rampant in all three that you won’t see the sidewalks as vibrant as cities like Philly chicago Boston NYC SF etc.
Agreed. Been saying the all pretty much the same. One maybe slightly better than the other but they are all roughly in the same tier.
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