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Originally Posted by Ant131531
I think Houston most resembles LA. Let's be honest....Paris? Really lol. No city in America looks like Paris and especially not Houston.
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I can sort of understand where toxteth is coming from with that, but I think more what he's going after is the wide variation of scale and style of construction all over, including a lot of imitation architecture meant to resemble other places. I can tell you from many Google Streetview excursions that I've seen apartment blocks throughout 'hoods inside the 610 loop that are meant to evoke blocks from Barcelona, Paris, Rome and everywhere in between, with varying degrees of success. That Streetlights at Midlane project...that's definitely supposed to be a little Paris, a little London, and a dash of New York put in blender and set to puree. All those newer homes in the Heights or even the Woodlands come to mind as well, the ones with the massive two-story sundecks and ceiling fans that look straight out of New Orleans? That was my interpretation.
I used to think Houston was like another Los Angeles, but as I become more familiar with the city (even from afar) and see it evolving at warp speed right now...I really think it's becoming its own animal altogether. If anything, it's taking bits and pieces of perceived correctness from other places and stitching it into the patchwork quilt (which could also be what toxteth was trying to describe).