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Not sure I get the question exactly. All are "urban" and all have residential populations. I'm confused.
Well a few people have posted that in the larger cities downtown is more of the financial district and uptown has more of the large apartments and condos. Just wondering if your take or experiences had been the same.
By what I understand so far, Downtown is the financial/banking/commercial district along with entertainment including pubs, clubs, bars, venues, theaters, etc, uptown is more of the urban residential district with a few shops but more parks etc, not quite sure what midtown is.
Downtown = south of 34th Street
Uptown = north of 59th Street
Midtown = Everything in between.
Wasn't that simple.
Simple, obvious, and wrong. That's a valid definition of Uptown (though others exclude the Upper East and Upper West Sides, there's a whole thread on it in the NYC forum), but Midtown extends at least to 31st street (Madison Square Garden/Penn Station and Macy's are certainly Midtown) and Downtown certainly doesn't extend north of 14th street (I wouldn't go anywhere near that far north myself; probably stop at Houston)
Simple, obvious, and wrong. That's a valid definition of Uptown (though others exclude the Upper East and Upper West Sides, there's a whole thread on it in the NYC forum), but Midtown extends at least to 31st street (Madison Square Garden/Penn Station and Macy's are certainly Midtown) and Downtown certainly doesn't extend north of 14th street (I wouldn't go anywhere near that far north myself; probably stop at Houston)
I thought downtown stops once the street grid becomes completely regular.
Well a few people have posted that in the larger cities downtown is more of the financial district and uptown has more of the large apartments and condos. Just wondering if your take or experiences had been the same.
By what I understand so far, Downtown is the financial/banking/commercial district along with entertainment including pubs, clubs, bars, venues, theaters, etc, uptown is more of the urban residential district with a few shops but more parks etc, not quite sure what midtown is.
As it goes for Minneapolis, Downtown is basically what you described it as, but it does have apartments and condos, ranging from newly built luxury apartments to high rise apartment towers to old brownstone apartments. Population is around 30,000 and growing.
Uptown is residential, with plenty of condos and apartments, but there are also brownstones and even some single family homes around uptown. It's mainly known for being a retail/entertainment/food district. Population is around 22,000 and growing.
This is where Uptown is: https://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&l...33023&t=h&z=16
Midtown is residential in an average way, as it is mostly brownstones, low apartments and single family homes. But, in the center it is denser, and it is more of a shopping and cultural district with lots of ethnic foods and shops. It is famous for the Midtown Global Market, which is the tallest building in the district in an old Sears building, but it is now a global market. There is also a major hospital midtown. It isn't an official neighborhood but an "area" that doesn't have set borders, so I can't give a population.
This is where Midtown is: https://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&l...33023&t=h&z=16
For Atlanta, we have a downtown which is one CBD with very little residential population, than Midtown which acts as another downtown and has a much higher residential population, then we have an uptown, but it's called Buckhead which is ANOTHER CBD and residential district.
San Diego surprisingly (for its size) has fairly well defined downtown and uptown areas. Downtown is also south and lower geographically than uptown so it's pretty easy to wrap your mind around it. Downtown is very compact, about 1.75 miles square with nine neighborhoods, and defined by the bay and the 5 freeway. Uptown are those mostly residential neighborhoods with small business districts immediately on the other side of the 5 and encircling Balboa Park (two neighborhoods deep) to the north and east, and up the hill.
We don't really have a midtown, but we have a Mid City which is kind of like a much wider band of neighborhoods extending out from uptown. And we have a tiny neighborhood by the airport called Middletown just to get you confused haha.
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