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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.
No idea how Seattle or Bellevue resemble either NYC or Chicago at all... Have you ever actually been to NYC? Central Park alone is bigger in land area than Downtown Seattle.
Last edited by GatsbyGatz; 05-27-2015 at 08:37 AM..
No idea how Seattle or Bellevue resemble either NYC or Chicago at all... Have you ever actually been to NYC? Central Park alone is bigger in land area than Downtown Seattle.
I have visited Manhattan as a tourist. I have also lived in San Francisco. These two places keep being listed as being among the most urbane places in the United States, and I use them as standards of urbanity.
I am certainly aware that NYC has a much larger population than the Seattle area, and that Manhattan is Super Urban.
Please note the word "resemble" in the title of the thread. Downtown Seattle is beginning to resemble in form, if not scale, Chicago and NYC-taking an urban area and adding high rise buildings.
Last edited by Tim Randal Walker; 05-27-2015 at 11:23 AM..
I have visited Manhattan as a tourist. I have also lived in San Francisco. These two places keep being listed as being among the most urbane places in the United States, and I use them as standards of urbanity.
I am certainly aware that NYC has a much larger population than the Seattle area, and that Manhattan is Super Urban.
Please note the word "resemble" in the title of the thread. Downtown Seattle is beginning to resemble in form, if not scale, Chicago and NYC-taking an urban area and adding high rise buildings.
So you think that any city that is constructing high rise buildings resembles NYC/Chicago? NYC does not have the only claim on high rise buildings, you know. If that's your base of comparison, then Seattle is beginning to resemble any city with tall buildings in your opinion.
In 20 years? LA could be a Tokyo or Sao Paolo...IF the NIMBY groups would just let it happen. So much Chinese and Korean money is flooding in right now and paying for new highrises. But the problem is that most of that development is being constrained to downtown because NIMBY groups have so much influence and power in other neighborhoods. Hollywood could be far taller and denser than it is if not for neighborhood groups with outsized influence worried about traffic and losing their views, misusing CEQA to get projects shut down before they begin.
But whatever...at least i own property downtown. The rest of LA's loss is downtown's gain, and (selfishly) my personal gain in terms of property values.
So you think that any city that is constructing high rise buildings resembles NYC/Chicago? NYC does not have the only claim on high rise buildings, you know. If that's your base of comparison, then Seattle is beginning to resemble any city with tall buildings in your opinion.
No, a city in which high rises are being added to an area that is already urban.
There is this depressing description I have seen-where downtown is a cluster of high rises with little street life...and becomes a ghost town at the end of the work day.
Seattle is a more urban version of Vancouver and Portland.
Atlanta will resemble nothing but itself. There's no city currently in this country bigger than Atlanta that it will resemble. That can be a good or bad thing.
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