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View Poll Results: Favorite Downtown in the World
Vancouver 6 2.26%
Toronto 14 5.26%
NYC 71 26.69%
Philidelphia 4 1.50%
Chicago 27 10.15%
Paris 10 3.76%
London 58 21.80%
Amsterdam 8 3.01%
Prague 4 1.50%
Rome 1 0.38%
Stockholm 3 1.13%
Oslo 0 0%
Sydney 15 5.64%
Melbourne 2 0.75%
Seoul 2 0.75%
Tokyo 9 3.38%
Hong Kong 13 4.89%
Shanghai 0 0%
Mexico city 5 1.88%
Sao Paul 2 0.75%
Lima 1 0.38%
Carcass 2 0.75%
LA 5 1.88%
Seattle 3 1.13%
Portland 1 0.38%
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Old 11-12-2013, 04:25 PM
 
Location: M I N N E S O T A
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Do Midtowns and Uptowns count?
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Old 11-12-2013, 06:38 PM
 
Location: São Paulo, Brazil
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Judging from streetview, Rio has much nicer downtown than Saõ Paulo. But I haven't visited either.
Most of the downtown in São Paulo is trash, except perhaps the historical area between the Sé Square and República Square, including the Anhangabaú, and the neighbourhood of Higienópolis. Three of the best touristic attractions in SP - Estação da Luz, São Paulo Concert Hall (Sala São Paulo) and the municipal market are outstanding places in the downtown surrounded by streets full of homeless people and drug dealers. Many historical buildings are entirely covered by grafitti. The best areas of São Paulo are mostly in the west region and in the near south.
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Old 11-13-2013, 03:43 AM
 
Location: Leeds, UK
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Do Midtowns and Uptowns count?
They don't exist here.
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Old 11-13-2013, 05:39 AM
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Location: Western Massachusetts
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They don't exist here.
I think in this thread, downtown is used to mean "general city center", containing a job center as well as shopping and entertainment districts.
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Old 11-13-2013, 05:44 AM
 
Location: Leeds, UK
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I know, but the terms midtown and uptown don't exist here - downtown isn't used either, but people will probably know what it means.
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Old 11-13-2013, 06:02 AM
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For Manhattan, Midtown is the middle of the island (often in or around the skyscraper business district). Uptown the upper Manhattan. Downtown is the lower part. Downtown and Uptown are often just used as a direction "going uptown" = north on the island, "going downtown" = south on the island. Those Manhattan pictures I posted were "downtown" in the sense of being in the center city but only the last might be what would be called downtown (since it's the southmost view). And none are really quite in a CBD, though there are plenty of jobs in the area.
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Old 11-13-2013, 06:11 AM
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Is that particular part of Manhattan suppose to be ''Downtown NYC''? because it looks quite grubby.
Yea, it's not the nicest looking of streets. It's a 7 minute walk from the Empire State Building. This is a bit nicer:

https://maps.google.com/maps?q=Broad...2,9.02,,0,-8.8

the Midtown office district has some a lot of bland midrise buildings:

https://maps.google.com/maps?q=Broad...27.32,,0,-19.8

great for packing as many offices together in one place, but London is far better at have cozy side streets while remaining a big city. Some of these were formerly garment factories. Impressive in scale but a rather bland and the traffic is loud. One of my parent's office is right nearby:

https://maps.google.com/maps?q=Broad...16.86,,0,-9.24

One thing I noticed from the London views is that while Manhattan is newer overall, in the center city, excluding skyscrapers London appears to have more new buildings. Manhattan is mostly from the first half of the 20th century, with some scattered older and newer buildings.
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Old 11-13-2013, 07:08 AM
 
Location: London, UK
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One thing I noticed from the London views is that while Manhattan is newer overall, in the center city, excluding skyscrapers London appears to have more new buildings. Manhattan is mostly from the first half of the 20th century, with some scattered older and newer buildings.
Wow quite shocked by that comment! I would of assumed NYC was more modern but you may be right.

One thing is that London looks cleaner than NYC!

https://maps.google.com/maps?q=Broad...6,,0,-0.3&z=16

Shard looks out of place along the Southbank I'd say
https://maps.google.com/maps?q=Broad...,,0,-5.31&z=15

https://maps.google.com/maps?q=Broad...9,,0,6.51&z=15
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Old 11-13-2013, 08:20 AM
 
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NYC
Tokyo
Paris
London
Hong Kong
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Old 11-13-2013, 09:18 AM
 
Location: Blighty
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Yea, it's not the nicest looking of streets. It's a 7 minute walk from the Empire State Building. This is a bit nicer:

https://maps.google.com/maps?q=Broad...2,9.02,,0,-8.8

the Midtown office district has some a lot of bland midrise buildings:

https://maps.google.com/maps?q=Broad...27.32,,0,-19.8

great for packing as many offices together in one place, but London is far better at have cozy side streets while remaining a big city. Some of these were formerly garment factories. Impressive in scale but a rather bland and the traffic is loud. One of my parent's office is right nearby:

https://maps.google.com/maps?q=Broad...16.86,,0,-9.24

One thing I noticed from the London views is that while Manhattan is newer overall, in the center city, excluding skyscrapers London appears to have more new buildings. Manhattan is mostly from the first half of the 20th century, with some scattered older and newer buildings.
Manhattan also has side streets -- most of the numbered roads (ie. heading east-west) are quite narrow and can't really be considered thoroughfares

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