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Originally Posted by Crawford
I would not consider either to be traditionally urban. They have wide streets, large building footprints, extensive parking accommodations, and the like.
Urban neighborhoods need fine-grain. Obviously all vibrant cities have "new urban districts" like Pearl, Mission Bay, Boston Harbor, etc. but they aren't traditionally urban. They're blocky buildings, quiet streetscapes, and suburbanized retail serving a homogenized demographic. There are no corner shoe repairs or tenement holdouts.
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you can’t have tenement holdouts in new districts unless i’m not understanding what you mean, and shoe repair is only a thing (that i know of) in long established office districts or wealthier urban or old suburban neighborhoods in unrenovated commercial storefronts. the economics rarely line up for new construction.