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Boston and DC are unique in how much their subways cover Brookline, Cambridge, Bethesda, and Arlington. Few other cities have subway suburbs like those two.
Los Angeles and Phoenix have nearby cities that are indistinguishable and at comparable densities. If you're in Atwater Village or Highland Park in LA, it's easy not to know you've crossed into Glendale or South Pasadena. Same with Phoenix and Scottsdale and Tempe. SF doesn't have that due to geographical boundaries, including San Bruno Mountain on its southern border. Seattle and NYC also have geographical separation from many of their suburbs.
Good point. Just even crossing a different municipality, it's a whole different system (PATH) in NYC.
Whereas in DC and Boston.. it flows nicely past city boundaries. That is a major plus of them. Helps their OTP too.
Even in Chicago the Evanston line changes at Rogers Park (Howard Stn.)
While blighted and non-functioning (the city will likely have to dissolve at some point if the city of Cleveland doesn't want to annex it), East Cleveland still for all intents and purposes an extension neighborhood of Cleveland, along with much of Cleveland Heights (even though no rail lines extend to CH) and much of Shaker Heights (which has its two rail lines).
Paradise, Nevada where the Las Vegas Strip it located.
Buckhead might become its own city soon though it will still be connected to Atlanta.
Then you got the places where the city itself is suburban in nature, and just connects to nearby suburbs like South Charleston WV and Charleston WV, Central LA and Baton Rouge, Monroe and West Monroe LA, Sulphur and Lake Charles LA.
Boston and DC are unique in how much their subways cover Brookline, Cambridge, Bethesda, and Arlington. Few other cities have subway suburbs like those two.
Well, to be fair, that has a lot to do with their relatively small municipal boundaries. But technically, you're right.
I can't really do this that well for Pittsburgh. Our city is a collection of 90+ neighborhoods, and due to our topography many of them function in and of themselves as independent small towns of 1,000-5,000 people. I mean some of the contiguous suburbs like Dormont, Bellevue, Mt. Oliver, Wilkinsburg, Millvale, Etna, Sharpsburg, and Aspinwall are quite dense and walkable and do feel like they could be Pittsburgh neighborhoods.
Well, to be fair, that has a lot to do with their relatively small municipal boundaries. But technically, you're right.
Piggybacking on this; I feel like Cambridge, Somerville, Revere, Chelsea cannot truly be considered suburbs but per the definition seen in this thread all those places are great contributions to this discussion.
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