I started a thread on this more than a year ago. This is a very fun exercise.
Based on my recent time working outside San Jose and being from NYC, I find that there are a lot of similarities ( superficial and some deep) between the Bay Area and the NY Tri-State area. A central harbor and a major city and neighbors being in the the center with islands and bridges in the mix. Both are strong economic centers for their respective coasts and offer the highest urban density in the country. Of course NYC is much bigger and more dominant, but I see similar dynamics between SF and Oakland/ Manhattan and Brooklyn. |
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Idk, Chicago and Toronto to me are essentially twins. They seem incredibly similar.
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Chicago and Toronto developed during different eras. They're in different countries, obviously, 10 hours apart. Chicago was (arguably) the third or fourth most important city on earth when Toronto was basically a poor man's Buffalo. In contrast, NYC and Philly are neighbors that developed concurrently. |
Mexico City and New York City
Mexico City delegaciones function much like NYC borroughs Pretty expansive Subway system cultural capitals for their respective countries absurd density Street food all over the place Center for capital and huge concentration of rich people Multiple skylines(though NYCs are much taller) |
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https://www.google.com/maps/place/Yo...!4d-79.3983225 This is a typical urban commercial corridor in Chicago's favored quarter: https://www.google.com/maps/place/W+...!4d-87.6587002 Do they strike you as "incredibly similar"? Is there anyplace in Chicago that looks like the Toronto streetscape? Is there anyplace in Toronto that looks like the Chicago streetscape? Nope. |
Probably Savannah and Charleston.
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Mexico City is most similar to LA, with extreme decentralization, extreme postwar boom, westward wealth orientation, permanent spring-like weather, and flat valley surrounded by mountains. |
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there's some macro-level superficial stuff - great lakes, densely populated (by north american standards), giant skylines - but beyond those 30,000' observations, the details on the ground between the two are quite a bit different, along with fairly different histories, demographics, local culture, etc. likewise with DC and boston - big east coast cities filled with lots of US history - but they are not "essentially twins". |
Chicago and Toronto are not similar in the least, although I can understand why, superficially, people would think so.
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I mean sure, but you certainly couldn't have picked a less representative stretch of Yonge Street itself. Toronto also doesn't really have "favourted quarters" in the way American cities do. Something like this is a bit more typical of retail corridors in Toronto (emphasis on the word retail, not the frontages of a bunch of office towers in a peripheral business district): https://goo.gl/maps/fHwqdWn5oKsouRQr7 |
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Also add Chattanooga as a little brother to those two. Aaron (Glowrock) |
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Most of Chicago's retail streets are pretty similar to those in say the St. Lawrence Market section of Toronto, perhaps the Distillery District, those kinds of areas. More neighborhood-oriented. Aaron (Glowrock) |
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My point was that I've stated frequently here that NYC and Philly are not comparable from a development perspective (which is what you are essentially saying). Crawford, on the other hand, believes that NYC and Philly are comparable from a development perspective, yet turns around and states that Toronto and Chicago are not. |
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