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photos of Manhattan. Which city looks most like this:
In regards to the skyline, Chicago. In regards to the architecture and street-scenes, a mix of Boston and Philadelphia.
Answering the question of the OP, I'd say the most vibrant and urban "Manhattan" of a city would probably have to be Chicago or San Francisco. I liked that cut-out of Chicago that Prelude posted.
I'm not sure why pictures of Manhattan are being shown, my thread wasn't intended to be what city is most like Manhattan, it is to compare the part of each city that function the way Manhattan does (center of culture, fashion, business, etc).
Well, Philadelphia's version of the "Sesame Street" photo (midtown from Central Park) is probably some variant of this one
I could probably get reasonable equivalents of all but the ornate rowhouses; I don't know of any in Philadelphia with that sort of style. Which is not to say Philly is much like Manhattan; it's not; it's less cohesive and obviously not nearly as populated.
Well, Philadelphia's version of the "Sesame Street" photo (midtown from Central Park) is probably some variant of this one
I could probably get reasonable equivalents of all but the ornate rowhouses; I don't know of any in Philadelphia with that sort of style. Which is not to say Philly is much like Manhattan; it's not; it's less cohesive and obviously not nearly as populated.
An intriguing concept that was brought forth in the "Most Urban" thread when it was still interesting is the concept of "pedestrian" traffic. Not much to go on out there in the web. But I found a couple of tidbits that I thought may be of interest concerning Powell St. of Downtown San Francisco and how it compares with other busy pedestrian thoroughfares from other major cities.
Plus a couple of other various steets from SF, London, Melbourne. Sorry, I'm feeling pretty lazy, lol! However, I feel this data goes to show how high some of SF's streets can peak if they are being compared to streets like these. These are streets where there is so much pedestrian action that you can sense the "vibrancy" in the air. So, if that's what you want to talk about. Pedestrian volume is a good start.
I would love to see counts for other cities/streets. But like I said, information is sparse on this concept.
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There is an area of 7th by Penn Station that does peak 69K per hour in pedestrian count - that is pretty crazy
Would imagine this block may hit over 300K in a day
In Philadelphia weekday for 1400 walnut was at about 46K - they did not do weekend when I might suspect a little higher but below Powell as this is the far end of the Rittenhouse row shopping district (1000 block of Market was the highest they did with a weekday at 52K, that is an awful area of Market East but a transit hub) They didnt do some major blocks on Walnut, Chestnut, Market or JFK in Market West/Rittenhouse Sq for some reason which is the heaviest pedestrian traffic in the city.
They did some random streets like 1500 block of Samsom which was like 30K weekday but is a half block really
This was the Sansom block (seems like an odd one for the study)
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