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Cirrus, why don't you think Silver Spring isn't growing as fast as Tyson's? From a density perspective, it's always been my favorite of the newish suburbs.
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Silver Spring, for those who may not know the history, was founded in the Civil War era after Lincoln's Post Office Secretary, Francis Preston Blair, supposedly discovered a clear ("silver") spring in the exurbs of the capital. So it's post Civil War and mostly post WW II (its nucleus in and around Georgia Ave. and Rt. 29 is pre-War, of course and there were some historic structures--places that were way out in the "country" originally, like the "Toll House Inn" that supposedly invented "toll house" (chocolate chip) cookies. Alexandria, on the other hand, is colonial era. |
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Silver Spring probably has the best artists on the region at the moment! Great area. Shame about Discovery but they will be fine.
And @Cirrus - your posts always on point but still hit dogs holler. Also see Fuller's widely disseminated article from this week |
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Right but I was responding to what you were responding to also.
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Hi.I didn't read all the pages, but it's good to hear D.C is having a boom right now.Cranes are a good thing!..I got the Gyst that they are re-zoning to ease up on height restrictions in certain areas? This is what peaked my interest if this is the case. Ottawa is a much smaller metro, but there are certainly some parallels in that Ottawa is a capital city with a strict height restriction as well.As a result, it's inner city is also very dense relative to it's size..The other parallel, is that the feds/municipal government here have also alleviated the rules on their height restriction a little bit outside of the core.
there is actually a 40 story condo being constructed, and more to come..It's good to see.I also agree with how clever developers must be when developing shorter buildings to maximize space in metros like D.C..I've never been to Washington, but by all accounts it has some fantastic Urban neighborhoods, and yes! Density always wins IMO. |
Dc has been booming for 30 years now. Basically since tony Williams became mayor. This isn't some new development.
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Northern Italians might also argue Rome, which isn't poor for Italian standards but is poor compared to Milan or Turin. |
Sure but Rome is...Rome... What it lacks in present day economic might it makes up for in millenia old historic cultural influence. It's one of the great old world cities like Istanbul, Cairo, and Beijing.
I think what he's asking is some national capital equivalent to Albany or Jefferson City. Going through my mental list of world capitals I am having a hard time finding one, especially in any "advanced" country in Europe, North America, East Asia, etc etc. Kyoto is not the biggest Japanese city but its still damn urban. Bern is not necessarily the #1 swiss city but its a decentralized country, Wellington and Canberra are small but not by the standards of that part of the world. Belmopan, Belize is a contender, but Belize as a whole is so small and its a modern planned city. There are many countries with new planned cities as capitals dating to the 50's, 60's, and later, but most of those cities have grown a little since and the ones that aren't are kind of tenous in their status(Napiydaw for example is a sort of a mess, if the Burmese have a regime change will it still exist?). Likewise Putrajaya is not done yet and was a suburb of KL anywyas. |
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Or are you talking size/importance? Plenty of capitals are small, relatively unimportant backwaters. Canberra, Islamabad, Pretoria, Abuja, Brasilia, Kotte, Sucre, possibly Ottawa; heck even DC relative to nation's overall economic might. But, yeah, national capitals tend to be dominant in terms of population and economy. 90% of capitals are the most important cities. |
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A capital and the biggest city represent the country to the world.
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I guess Ottawa is a decent example of what I was imagining, though its not that small. Really what I am trying to think of is a national capital which is not a late 19th/20th century or later planned city but is also not considered to be a top major city in its own country(which Ottawa is). Quote:
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NYC, LA and Chicago are the most representative cities of their country abroad, and that's the way it will be for this entire century. Yet NYC isn't even their local state administrative capital. I guess business, culture and political power are sometimes 3 different concepts. As for Tokyo and Paris, we French and the Japanese have been fascinated by each other for long, so that's a particular case. I grew up on mangas and silly Japanese anime series myself. That's some sweet easy part of my childhood. The Koreans living in France are jealous of our fascination for Japan. This is something peculiar between us. |
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