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No one is (or should) say.... DC is not unique. Over boasting this a bit.... I might be dead before this all. Just great but ....yeah. it is yet future and a crash or change can alter it over decades.
Many a development has changes, tweeks, architectural changes and as needed still can rule over decades to completion.
This thread is not even in the city vs city forum to see it as a competition.
I was just making a comparison of what downtown CBD development looks like in DC compared to other cities. It’s unique to DC. Development in other city downtowns is skyscrapers. If people think downtown DC buildings look like buildings in downtown NYC, Chicago, Boston, Philadelphia, or Baltimore, that’s news to me. Most people on this website talk about how different those cities downtowns are compared to DC because of the height of buildings. I don’t know…maybe that opinion has changed.
I was just making a comparison of what downtown CBD development looks like in DC compared to other cities. It’s unique to DC. Development in other city downtowns is skyscrapers. If people think downtown DC buildings look like buildings in downtown NYC, Chicago, Boston, Philadelphia, or Baltimore, that’s news to me. Most people on this website talk about how different those cities downtowns are compared to DC because of the height of buildings. I don’t know…maybe that opinion has changed.
Naw Downtown DC is different but it has many areas outside of downtown (majority of the city, what makes the city’s unique urban vernacular/soul) that do remind me of those other cities. Downtown DC buildings aren’t fundamentally different than buildings I’ve seen elsewhere except for a few ultra wide Capitol buildings to the far west. What’s different is you’re taking building type I see in Seaport, Fenway, Kendall Square (and Harbor East too I guess) and making a downtown out of just that.
Naw Downtown DC is different but it has many areas outside of downtown (majority of the city, what makes the city’s unique urban vernacular/soul) that do remind me of those other cities. Downtown DC buildings aren’t fundamentally different than buildings I’ve seen elsewhere except for a few ultra wide Capitol buildings to the far west. What’s different is you’re taking building type I see in Seaport, Fenway, Kendall Square (and Harbor East too I guess) and making a downtown out of just that.
Well, I guess the reason I brought downtown development in DC up is because it’s basically the only city where blocks around Gallery Place/City Center DC will look the same as blocks in Navy Yard, NOMA, Union Market, Buzzard Point, and soon to include Rhode Island Avenue, New York Avenue, and Anacostia. The development style is like weeds, they continue to spread in all directions which in my opinion seems to be unique to DC because every buildings is basically exactly the same height. It’s distinct in my opinion. The lack of variation is what makes it unique.
I mean even Howard University is getting in on the action. This is such a DC look:
Those houses in Baltimore don't even have grass in front of them.
Show me a street in Baltimore that looks like the link you posted at the bottom for DC. I mean, at the very least, they should be painted the same color and be the same height.
As for parkways with trees, I could show you streets in any city with forests around them. That NW DC link could be the suburbs too.
DCs height limit is unique for sure it’s just most of any cities isn’t tall.
There ya go, someone gets it.
Washington's large number of classical government buildings, the planned avenues and intersections, the monuments, statues, the museums, the parks, the Mall, the history, all make DC one of America's most unique cities.
Have you ever been to Charleston or Savannah? If the question is "most original", both surely belong on the list. They both predate the Nation - how much more original can you get?
Most cities on the east coast, and along the Mississippi River predate the country.
My take away from reading these pages is that NO city in the USA is unique.
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