Welcome to City-Data.com Forum!
U.S. CitiesCity-Data Forum Index
Go Back   City-Data Forum > U.S. Forums > General U.S.
 [Register]
Please register to participate in our discussions with 2 million other members - it's free and quick! Some forums can only be seen by registered members. After you create your account, you'll be able to customize options and access all our 15,000 new posts/day with fewer ads.
View detailed profile (Advanced) or search
site with Google Custom Search

Search Forums  (Advanced)
Reply Start New Thread
 
Old 10-30-2020, 11:18 PM
 
6,613 posts, read 16,585,236 times
Reputation: 4787

Advertisements

Within the city limits of Chicago, far, far from the Loop:

https://www.google.com/maps/@41.6536...7i16384!8i8192
Reply With Quote Quick reply to this message

 
Old 10-30-2020, 11:48 PM
 
3,291 posts, read 2,773,197 times
Reputation: 3375
Mexican War Streets in Pittsburgh, a neighborhood of the North Side, is very reminscent of Old Town Alexandria, Va


https://www.mexicanwarstreets.org/th...t33gh79httjkhw
Reply With Quote Quick reply to this message
 
Old 10-31-2020, 12:02 AM
 
4,540 posts, read 2,784,951 times
Reputation: 4921
New construction neighborhoods in historic Midwest cities are always kind of funny to me.

Here is one in Chicago city limits:

https://www.google.com/maps/@41.9849...7i16384!8i8192

And one in Milwaukee city limits:

https://www.google.com/maps/@43.1740...7i16384!8i8192
Reply With Quote Quick reply to this message
 
Old 10-31-2020, 12:04 AM
 
4,540 posts, read 2,784,951 times
Reputation: 4921
Quote:
Originally Posted by Ben Around View Post
Within the city limits of Chicago, far, far from the Loop:

https://www.google.com/maps/@41.6536...7i16384!8i8192
Yeah, some areas way out on the south side look downright rural.

https://www.google.com/maps/@41.7105...7i16384!8i8192
Reply With Quote Quick reply to this message
 
Old 10-31-2020, 12:36 AM
 
1,803 posts, read 935,830 times
Reputation: 1344
Quote:
Originally Posted by Drewjdeg View Post
Yeah, some areas way out on the south side look downright rural.

https://www.google.com/maps/@41.7105...7i16384!8i8192
No offense and officially it is Chicago above. But OMG such a exception on a remotest edge of the city that is really looking for some scapegoat to infer it is anything but a annomally.

Just go one block or so away and you get back to the typical Chicago finished street ect....

https://www.google.com/maps/@41.7133...7i16384!8i8192

I think in every city you will find some exception if you search enough and probably on the edge of the city that got incorporated.
Quote:
Originally Posted by Drewjdeg View Post
New construction neighborhoods in historic Midwest cities are always kind of funny to me.

Here is one in Chicago city limits:

https://www.google.com/maps/@41.9849...7i16384!8i8192

And one in Milwaukee city limits:

https://www.google.com/maps/@43.1740...7i16384!8i8192
What is unusual about your first street-view here? I did the 360 view and why is it odd for a new development on a edge of a major city? Chicago has much of the city as bungalow-type homes and this new one has them too???

The Milwaukee one is very much more like a farther outward suburban looking development. Still even mighty Urban NYC has these anomalies of many blocks of single homes in Boroughs of NYC you expect the most urban housing one can find an 5+ stories high. Every city has exceptions. Still if a city as Chicago has such a substantial STANDARD street-grid that has finished streets with curbing and officially... 90% of the city has alleyways behind every street.. You know YOU ARE PICKING the EXTREMES with such examples.

I did enjoy seeing them though as I thought a trailer/court type modular home thingy was illegal in the top post within Chicago you showed us as I believed a Container-home neighborhood would be?? You did prove though one exist ..... I would not have believed it otherwise being I lived in the city for a few years and never saw such a thing as a trailer court .... LOL
Reply With Quote Quick reply to this message
 
Old 10-31-2020, 02:50 AM
 
Location: Tokyo, JAPAN
955 posts, read 612,082 times
Reputation: 1074
Quote:
Originally Posted by Drewjdeg View Post
New construction neighborhoods in historic Midwest cities are always kind of funny to me.

Here is one in Chicago city limits:

https://www.google.com/maps/@41.9849...7i16384!8i8192

And one in Milwaukee city limits:

https://www.google.com/maps/@43.1740...7i16384!8i8192
Wow, I'm loving those Chicago ones. Very cute, quaint, and still tightly packed together to give a nice urban dense feel with green space in the middle.

The Milwaukee ones though.. yikes. I didn't realize Milwaukee city borders literal farmland at the north. Who knew.
Reply With Quote Quick reply to this message
 
Old 10-31-2020, 10:23 AM
 
4,540 posts, read 2,784,951 times
Reputation: 4921
Quote:
Originally Posted by NoHyping View Post
No offense and officially it is Chicago above. But OMG such a exception on a remotest edge of the city that is really looking for some scapegoat to infer it is anything but a annomally.

Just go one block or so away and you get back to the typical Chicago finished street ect....

https://www.google.com/maps/@41.7133...7i16384!8i8192

I think in every city you will find some exception if you search enough and probably on the edge of the city that got incorporated.

What is unusual about your first street-view here? I did the 360 view and why is it odd for a new development on a edge of a major city? Chicago has much of the city as bungalow-type homes and this new one has them too???

The Milwaukee one is very much more like a farther outward suburban looking development. Still even mighty Urban NYC has these anomalies of many blocks of single homes in Boroughs of NYC you expect the most urban housing one can find an 5+ stories high. Every city has exceptions. Still if a city as Chicago has such a substantial STANDARD street-grid that has finished streets with curbing and officially... 90% of the city has alleyways behind every street.. You know YOU ARE PICKING the EXTREMES with such examples.

I did enjoy seeing them though as I thought a trailer/court type modular home thingy was illegal in the top post within Chicago you showed us as I believed a Container-home neighborhood would be?? You did prove though one exist ..... I would not have believed it otherwise being I lived in the city for a few years and never saw such a thing as a trailer court .... LOL
Isn’t that the point of the thread? Other people posted areas that were literally one street long as well.

Even if these are very small areas, I still think they are interesting.
Reply With Quote Quick reply to this message
 
Old 10-31-2020, 11:31 AM
 
1,803 posts, read 935,830 times
Reputation: 1344
Quote:
Originally Posted by Drewjdeg View Post
Isn’t that the point of the thread? Other people posted areas that were literally one street long as well.

Even if these are very small areas, I still think they are interesting.
Yes, definitely what this thread is about and I noted in my post last sentence how interesting it was to see. Just where some cities differ is the scope of completely different parts of their city in housing styles or street-grid to no grid that some cities have.

So guess I will play.... by far we think of Philly as our row-home Capital of the US and typically much of Philadelphia is.
Still even I knew there is a pretty large segment of the city that is pretty suburban with even parts in forested settings etc.

Here is far northern tier Philadelphia and some very unique stone homes on a hill....

https://www.google.com/maps/@40.1308...7i16384!8i8192

double duplex homes are not uncommon in Philadelphia. Still these kinds probably are. Very alike,
though the whole area. Whole neighborhood has these very alike homes also on hills and curving streets,

https://www.google.com/maps/@40.0815...7i16384!8i8192

Another block two-storied duplex all alike.

https://www.google.com/maps/@40.0718...7i16384!8i8192

https://www.google.com/maps/@40.0702...7i16384!8i8192

Of course we will find the typical Suburban look also on a winding street,

https://www.google.com/maps/@40.0960...7i16384!8i8192

Also the areas as suburban large ranch homes and woodsy.

https://www.google.com/maps/@40.0717...7i16384!8i8192

And of course those in a forested setting.

https://www.google.com/maps/@40.0849...7i16384!8i8192

https://www.google.com/maps/@40.0812...7i16384!8i8192

Still technically Philadelphia city-proper.
Reply With Quote Quick reply to this message
 
Old 10-31-2020, 03:14 PM
 
Location: Florida
331 posts, read 182,281 times
Reputation: 533
I love this thread idea


This lonely single-family house in the middle of Brickell surrounded by skyscrapers and the subway
https://goo.gl/maps/cJUkNDWQ9xSYWKWz6
Reply With Quote Quick reply to this message
 
Old 10-31-2020, 09:52 PM
 
6,613 posts, read 16,585,236 times
Reputation: 4787
[quote=Drewjdeg;59544145]New construction neighborhoods in historic Midwest cities are always kind of funny to me.

Agreed! See if you can guess which decade this neighborhood was built on slum clearance land in the inner city of St. Paul, MN:

https://www.google.com/maps/@44.9539...7i13312!8i6656

Swivel around and go the other direction on Fuller and see the houses from the turn of the (20th) century that were spared the wrecking ball.
Reply With Quote Quick reply to this message
Please register to post and access all features of our very popular forum. It is free and quick. Over $68,000 in prizes has already been given out to active posters on our forum. Additional giveaways are planned.

Detailed information about all U.S. cities, counties, and zip codes on our site: City-data.com.


Reply
Please update this thread with any new information or opinions. This open thread is still read by thousands of people, so we encourage all additional points of view.

Quick Reply
Message:


Over $104,000 in prizes was already given out to active posters on our forum and additional giveaways are planned!

Go Back   City-Data Forum > U.S. Forums > General U.S.

All times are GMT -6.

© 2005-2024, Advameg, Inc. · Please obey Forum Rules · Terms of Use and Privacy Policy · Bug Bounty

City-Data.com - Contact Us - Archive 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37 - Top