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Originally Posted by destroycreate
The thing that stands out in this thread is that there seems to be very few pedestrians anywhere, it seems dead. Was this just a random Sunday perhaps or are these areas with beautiful architecture pretty much abandoned? I think that's lending to the "creepy" vibe some mentioned above.
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while i wouldn't read a lot into that, midwestern cities outside of chicago are just different in that respect, even in gentrified or intact areas. people have entire floor-plates of buildings whereas in new york city there would be 10 people. the human density is just a lot less, even in a good built environment.
if you were there you would see people out and about but it's pretty easy to take a photo with nobody in it. as far as myself, i generally go out of my way to wait for people to pass when photographing buildings a lot of the time. it's a weird midwestern courtesy i think, even though the the OP is from PDX.
but back to my original point, cincinnati isn't a huge region, but it has a pretty massive amount of solid urban neighborhoods that people are spread across. people arent packed into a small footprint "city living" district like nashville.