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still a different architectural style than typical of Britain. British row house blocks tend to be more homogeneous. I think that street is even narrow for London standards, though I'm sure you can find a few.
Yes, they are common further north though, not so much in London (maybe in the east). Parts of SW London and into Surrey, you'll find those large, detached Georgian brick houses on tree-lined streets (which are what I think of when I imagine Atlanta).
looks like an indoor urban mall; but those are within a city block rather than covering a street. Not sure if I can think of an American example of covered shopping street.
These hoods are the original colonial neighborhoods and they are not allowed to knock down those properties. They can rehab them and repoint bricks and such. So if that isn't colonial British then I don't know what would be. We used red brick here in that era as it was readily available.
Philly has a very dense downtown and in fact just about every hood is a rowhouse hood with much density, unlike the vast majority of the US. So with all those people packed in, the city tends to be much more social and gregarious than stiff cities like Dallas or Houston.
In my experience the UK and the rest of Europe are very social places in the town centers, and folks there like to be out and about. Over here, outside of the East Coast downtowns not at all. Americans are a rather boring lot that don't socialize nearly as much as Europeans. My brother loved Ireland for that reason. Over here, most people stick to family and close friends and wall their yards off for privacy.
I strongly dislike the lifestyle over here outside of my city and other cool East Coast cities. I have to say Savannah is one very cool city downtown with a similar vibe to Philly, Baltimore, DC, Boston, Miami, and NY. I have heard same thing for Charleston.
Head into the Midwest, West, and interior South not so much at all. I think Americans tend to be very suspicious of everyone not like them. And also, Americans are quite religious in rural areas and don't like drinking, etc. Add to that the utter dislike and almost hatred Americans have for people with different political views than them and you can see where America is headed.
My friends and I were eating outside last night enjoying Pride Day in Philly, and this very topic came up. One older friend of mine said he has never seen it this bad in his lifetime, and predicts extreme turmoil and possible Civil War down the road. You have to be here to witness the utter hatred people feel for "Liberals" or "Right Wingers".
Yup, many American downtowns seem very boring and anti-social. People have explicitly said that in some cases the Downtown in their respective city is not even the place to be, rather the "social" part of their city seems to be relocated to some upper-class neighborhood hard to reach by public transport. It doesn't look good for the future
The bricks used in old colonial US cities are darker than the ones here for the most part. Here they are terracotta or sandy coloured, whereas over there they are quite dark. The terraced houses in the north of England or Scotland look more like the US ones. I can think of a couple of films where one was substituted for the other (World War Z - filmed in Glasgow but set in Philly, and Body of Lies - filmed in either Philly or Baltimore but set in Manchester).
The bricks used in old colonial US cities are darker than the ones here for the most part. Here they are terracotta or sandy coloured, whereas over there they are quite dark. The terraced houses in the north of England or Scotland look more like the US ones. I can think of a couple of films where one was substituted for the other (World War Z - filmed in Glasgow but set in Philly, and Body of Lies - filmed in either Philly or Baltimore but set in Manchester).
A British friend (from south London) living in New England said the older New England towns remind more of northern England with more forests and lots of 19th brick mill buildings.
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