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Location: Near Tours, France about 47°10'N 0°25'E
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Rotterdam, london, birmingham, den hague, etc. American cities were originally based on a english/dutch urban model. Later they evoluated to thrir own way but keeping some sort of family link with dutch and britisg cities. On an other way, british and dutch big cities have evolved to a more American model of cities after WW2. So it is both ways, but british and Dutch cities are still very 'european' compared to the US.
London is very similar to nex uork in the way both are big anglophones world cities, both have architectures with victorian/georgian or english/dutch neiclassical architectures, both are big and socially organised in milticulturam communities...
Most US cities are not like New York. Cities like Kansas City and the likes are more typical, laid out on a grid. The nearest city in Europe to a typical US city is Milton Keynes in England. It is new and designed by an American.
OK, would you say Dublin is most similar to Boston or a small New England city?
"...if Liverpool can get into top gear again there is no limit to the city's potential. The scale and resilience of the buildings and people is amazing – it is a world city, far more so than London and Manchester. It doesn't feel like anywhere else in Lancashire: comparisons always end up overseas – Dublin, or Boston, or Hamburg."
– Ian Nairn, Britain's Changing Towns, 1967
A return has just been made, by order of parliament, which shews that Liverpool is now the greatest port in the British Empire in the value of its exports and the extent of its foreign commerce. Being the first port in the British Empire, it is the first port in the world. New York is the only place out of Great Britain which can at all compare with the extent of its commerce. New York is the Liverpool of America, as Liverpool is the New York of Europe.
- Liverpool Times 1852
"...if Liverpool can get into top gear again there is no limit to the city's potential. The scale and resilience of the buildings and people is amazing – it is a world city, far more so than London and Manchester. It doesn't feel like anywhere else in Lancashire: comparisons always end up overseas – Dublin, or Boston, or Hamburg."
– Ian Nairn, Britain's Changing Towns, 1967
A return has just been made, by order of parliament, which shews that Liverpool is now the greatest port in the British Empire in the value of its exports and the extent of its foreign commerce. Being the first port in the British Empire, it is the first port in the world. New York is the only place out of Great Britain which at all compare with the extent of its commerce. New York is the Liverpool of America, as Liverpool is the New York of Europe.
- Liverpool Times 1852
The city is rising like a phoenix. The sleeping giant is awakening. Those who are now getting in charge are not the same as the whimpish incompetents than ran the city over the past 30 years. They know the city's potential.
In the past 35 years the UK funded London so it would be a world-city. That happened and the rest of the UK suffered because of it. Now it is time to focus away from London. The rest of the country are getting fed up with being second fiddle to London. It is still going on with the high-speed rail, which is nothing short of joke acting as sluice to ensure wealth pours into London. Only four cites will be on the high-speed network. They even left Liverpool off the high-speed network. Liverpool has a pressure group called 20 Miles More (the distance to the nearest high-speed rail track) to get the high-speed rail into the city. Nearby Manchester is having it, and a very expensive 7 mile tunnel, and if they get it and Liverpool does not you may as well say lock up Liverpool and throw away the key. Liverpool is actually larger than Manchester.
Do you use skyscrapercity by any chance, John? You remind me of some of the posters on there/
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