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Seattle is an interesting case study. The skyline is growing probably better than anywhere in the US right now, and adjacent Bellevue, (not in Seattle), is huge. So, I would go out on a limb and say Seattle could resemble current day Chicago, without the supertalls.
when this question was posed, I first thought of Seattle as an eventual cousin.
Downtown Bellevue seems like a smaller version of downtown Seattle.
With all the construction in downtown Seattle, it has reminded me of Manhattan. But yes, Chicago seems like an apt comparison.
Last edited by Tim Randal Walker; 05-26-2015 at 10:12 AM..
Interestingly, I actually read an urban studies blogger a couple of years ago who said that the vibe he got in Pittsburgh at the time was similar to the vibe he got in Seattle during the 1980s, after the city's economic doldrums of the 1970s, but before its emergence as a premier American city during the 1990s. If that's true, then I guess the big difference would be that Seattle had a bad decade before things began to change, whereas Pittsburgh had a bad three decades before things began to change.
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