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Denver has zero in the way of ethnic neighborhoods. Denver has nothing comparable to Cleveland's West Side Market. Denver's light rail system is also much smaller than Cleveland's. Elitch Gardens is very small and not very exciting, Cedar Point in Sandusky, on the other hand, is one of the best amusement parks in the nation.
Yeah but Cedar Point isn't in Cleveland. Its 1-2 hours depending on when you go, and where you go from Cleveland. I agree with all the other things, but I still like Denver more.
I think it was meant to be bigger than it actually is today.
CLEVELAND likely feels bigger and looks bigger due to the fact that it was once the 5th LARGEST CITY IN THE UNITED STATES. Most of Cleveland's infrastructure and built out environment was put into place when the city had a much higher population. Cleveland, historically, has always been much larger than Denver, until sometime in the late 1980s or mid '90's when Denver's city proper population eclipsed that of a shrinking Cleveland. Despite this, Cleveland's MSA and CSA are still much larger in population than Denver.
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CLEVELAND likely feels bigger and looks bigger due to the fact that it was once the 5th LARGEST CITY IN THE UNITED STATES. Most of Cleveland's infrastructure and built out environment was put into place when the city had a much higher population. Cleveland, historically, has always been much larger than Denver, until sometime in the late 1980s or mid '90's when Denver's city proper population eclipsed that of a shrinking Cleveland. Despite this, Cleveland's MSA and CSA are still much larger in population than Denver.
The CSA is bigger than Denver's CSA, while the MSA is smaller than Denver's MSA.
CLEVELAND likely feels bigger and looks bigger due to the fact that it was once the 5th LARGEST CITY IN THE UNITED STATES. Most of Cleveland's infrastructure and built out environment was put into place when the city had a much higher population. Cleveland, historically, has always been much larger than Denver, until sometime in the late 1980s or mid '90's when Denver's city proper population eclipsed that of a shrinking Cleveland. Despite this, Cleveland's MSA and CSA are still much larger in population than Denver.
I personally don't think it looks much bigger at all. Just older. And I think only Cleveland's CSA is larger. I can see what you're saying though.
It's probably the density of the area overall. I was curious, so I crunched some numbers... Denver's MSA covers more area than Cleveland's CSA.
Please feel free to check my math, but basically;
Cleveland:
MSA = 2004.41 sq mi (pop 2.1 million)
CSA = 5904.58 sq mi (pop 3.5 million)
Denver:
MSA = 7591.79 sq mi (pop 2.6 million)
CSA = 12349.27 sq mi (pop 3.2 million)
And also like was said above, Cleveland infrastructure was built for a much larger population (train system, freeways, buildings, wide blvd's, museums, etc)
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