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Dallas is the epitome of sprawl with McMansions and Office parks. I have been to the city 6 times and it looked like nothing but endless office parks and suburbia with McMansions.
Atlanta made some good strides in walkability with projects like the Beltline. Some of the suburbs like downtown Alpharetta and the mixed use developments like Avalon and Halcyon have impressed me. The traffic situation in Atlanta will force more vertical and more mixed use live work play developments in the coming decade.
Houston falls somewhere in between, not as bad as Dallas but still feels sprawled out compared to Atlanta..
Atlanta feels more compact and vibrant in the core
Houston is more dense
Dallas has always been meh for me. Just pure suburbia and office parks..
Atlanta’s “urban” footprint drops off real quick and isn’t very large. Houston and Dallas are more densely developed for miles outside their cores. Atlanta’s urbanity will be limited due to the leafy single family neighborhoods ringing Midtown-Downtown.
I’m not sure what’s so suburban about Central Dallas. What’s a good suburb to compare it to?
Atlanta’s “urban” footprint drops off real quick and isn’t very large. Houston and Dallas are more densely developed for miles outside their cores. Atlanta’s urbanity will be limited due to the leafy single family neighborhoods ringing Midtown-Downtown.
I’m not sure what’s so suburban about Central Dallas. What’s a good suburb to compare it to?
It's not that central Dallas isn't suburban, it's that noone can call it suburban and walk in Houston the next day and say this is dense, yeah their's a difference but we are max talking about 1,000ppsm, in reality 5,000 ppsm difference is often hard to notice let alone a 10,000 ppsm difference. 1,000 ppsm visually is nothing. Atlanta is the exact same, a few really good areas but go to Buckhead or Bankhead from either of those urban points and it feels like their's no density almost immediately.
I think DT Austin will be way more walkable than any of them. It doesn't have the legacy of building 80s/90s office towers out in edge cities like the others. It still has the rapid drop down to Single Family Homes from Downtown west of Lamar, but east of Lamar to I-35 and south of the Capitol is already very walkable.
I'd be curious to see census tract density around DT Houston, Dallas, and Atlanta. None of the three is walkable, but I'd give Dallas a slight edge for having Deep Ellum and Uptown/McKinney Ave adjacent to DT.
I think DT Austin will be way more walkable than any of them. It doesn't have the legacy of building 80s/90s office towers out in edge cities like the others. It still has the rapid drop down to Single Family Homes from Downtown west of Lamar, but east of Lamar to I-35 and south of the Capitol is already very walkable.
I'd be curious to see census tract density around DT Houston, Dallas, and Atlanta. None of the three is walkable, but I'd give Dallas a slight edge for having Deep Ellum and Uptown/McKinney Ave adjacent to DT.
I think DT Austin will be way more walkable than any of them. It doesn't have the legacy of building 80s/90s office towers out in edge cities like the others. It still has the rapid drop down to Single Family Homes from Downtown west of Lamar, but east of Lamar to I-35 and south of the Capitol is already very walkable.
I'd be curious to see census tract density around DT Houston, Dallas, and Atlanta. None of the three is walkable, but I'd give Dallas a slight edge for having Deep Ellum and Uptown/McKinney Ave adjacent to DT.
Even though Atlanta has a better walking score than Dallas. Your clearly not that familiar with the city to say this.
I think DT Austin will be way more walkable than any of them. It doesn't have the legacy of building 80s/90s office towers out in edge cities like the others. It still has the rapid drop down to Single Family Homes from Downtown west of Lamar, but east of Lamar to I-35 and south of the Capitol is already very walkable.
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I'd be curious to see census tract density around DT Houston, Dallas, and Atlanta. None of the three is walkable, but I'd give Dallas a slight edge for having Deep Ellum and Uptown/McKinney Ave adjacent to DT
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Lol. Wow. Despite all of them having high wallacores in those areas with Atlanta having the most?,.sure
I think DT Austin will be way more walkable than any of them. It doesn't have the legacy of building 80s/90s office towers out in edge cities like the others. It still has the rapid drop down to Single Family Homes from Downtown west of Lamar, but east of Lamar to I-35 and south of the Capitol is already very walkable.
I'd be curious to see census tract density around DT Houston, Dallas, and Atlanta. None of the three is walkable, but I'd give Dallas a slight edge for having Deep Ellum and Uptown/McKinney Ave adjacent to DT.
By adjacent, you mean across a series of highway overpasses?
I think DT Austin will be way more walkable than any of them. It doesn't have the legacy of building 80s/90s office towers out in edge cities like the others. It still has the rapid drop down to Single Family Homes from Downtown west of Lamar, but east of Lamar to I-35 and south of the Capitol is already very walkable.
I'd be curious to see census tract density around DT Houston, Dallas, and Atlanta. None of the three is walkable, but I'd give Dallas a slight edge for having Deep Ellum and Uptown/McKinney Ave adjacent to DT.
All three likely have a higher density than Austin.
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