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Old Posted Sep 8, 2012, 5:25 PM
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Nashville

i'm going a little out of order on my trip to southern illinois and tennessee (well, i'm already out of order since asheville was the second to last stop and first photo thread)

on with nashville. a few nashville threads ago someone complained on here it looked too clean, new and shiny, so there's plenty of old brick in this thread

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Old Posted Sep 8, 2012, 7:26 PM
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Nashville looks appealing, and the fact that it's an LSyd thread is just gravy.
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Fucking awesome thread of my hometown. Thanks for sharing it man. You certainly gave a thorough tour of the downtown area...probably the best I've seen on here...did you get a chance to walk south of the Bridgestone Arena and see the new convention center?

I also loved the overview of West End...which doesn't often get much attention paid to it.
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Old Posted Sep 9, 2012, 3:26 AM
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Tis Nashtastic.
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They've got some nice old stuff downtown. I liked all the overhead shots.
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nice thread. nashville is on my winter city-travel list.
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Old Posted Sep 9, 2012, 6:52 PM
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Exactly what I needed! Those first 10 or so photos make Nashville look pretty dense! Looking through the thread I thought for sure you would have some photos of SoBro and the Gulch. Did you make it to those areas?
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Nashville has a great downtown.
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There are quite a few gems in Nashville. Thanks for sharing.
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Great tour of downtown.

This shot is probably my favorite. Awesome mix of architecture.

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Old Posted Sep 11, 2012, 7:13 PM
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Pardon my ignorance on this one, but what is the name of this new tower?

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Old Posted Sep 11, 2012, 9:55 PM
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good ol' music city. nice show, buddy. love that super-zoom past the capitol cupola toward that giant industrial building. never noticed the rockwell barbershop quartet mural there before either, hilarious and rad.
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tennessee seems like an amazing state, overall. it seems very urban, with quite a few large cities. and the fact that its mountainous, will mean that these cities will becomes denser as the economy and the population grows. it seems like the only way to stop sprawl, effectively, is if there are natural physical barriers to it. otherwise, even in oregon where they have artificial boundaries, people keep challenging them for cheaper real estate. tennessee is lucky.
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aint no mountains in memphis (or nashville). as someone who has a conflicted and *attached whether i like it or not* relationship with the south i do have affection for tennessee.
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Don't recall seeing much of Nashville on the forum, but this certainly helps fix that

What is it with Fifth/Third Bank obnoxiously ruining buildings with their signage and logos?
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Cool - love that old brick drugstore shot.
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tennessee seems like an amazing state, overall. it seems very urban, with quite a few large cities. and the fact that its mountainous, will mean that these cities will becomes denser as the economy and the population grows. it seems like the only way to stop sprawl, effectively, is if there are natural physical barriers to it. otherwise, even in oregon where they have artificial boundaries, people keep challenging them for cheaper real estate. tennessee is lucky.
The four TN bigs (Memphis, Nashville, Knoxville, and Chattanooga) are actually not very urban (at least not compared to most of the established rustbelt cities like Detroit), but they all seemed to preserve a decent amount from urban renewal. The result is that they all essentially have fairly charming downtown areas and have focused on playing to those assets.

Memphis is definitely the most urban. It has been a large city for longer and is on flat terrain. It also had leaders early in the 20th century who understood how to plan a city.

Nashville is a different beast. It's pretty urban in and around I-440 and East Nashville, but that's essentially it. Although it's technically an older city than Memphis, Nashville did not hit its stride until the the second half of the 20th century after it consolidated with Davidson County. So much of the Nashville metro outside of what you see here in the photos is miles of suburban sprawl in between rolling hills. Actually, about an entire third of Nashville/Davidson County to the northwest is very, very sparsely populated due to the terrain and all those hills have bedrock right up to the surface too. Lots of gorgeous scenery here, but it'll likely always come at the expense of our density stats.
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Nice. I still like the Batman building.
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Very nice pictures! Thanks for sharing.

I like your aerial shots. They´re vibrant.

Congrats and greetings from Madrid, Spain!
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