Most "pedigree"-oriented cities - Page 15

Crawford · #**281** Posted **May 12, 2018, 2:28 PM**

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i find it useful when comparing resolutions of urbanism, specifically east coast vs midwest. i use it a lot when comparing the built form of chicago to say philadelphia.

Philly, at least at its best (like around Rittenhouse) is as good as practically anywhere in terms of fine-grained urbanism.

Centropolis · #**282** Posted **May 12, 2018, 2:31 PM**

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Originally Posted by Crawford

Philly, at least at its best (like around Rittenhouse) is as good as practically anywhere in terms of fine-grained urbanism.

yeah, or the fact that there's storefronts under reading terminal market in the kind of spaces that likely would not in chicago, or alleys with rowhomes/restaurants/bars, practically downtown. this all reads as fine grain (for u.s./canada) urbanism to me.

pdxtex · #**283** Posted **May 12, 2018, 4:36 PM**

philly has 150 years of urban development on chicago. chicago was a swampy frontier town when philladelphia was already a major revolutionary metropolis. id say you can thank history for its scale.

Centropolis · #**284** Posted **May 12, 2018, 5:23 PM**

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philly has 150 years of urban development on chicago. chicago was a swampy frontier town when philladelphia was already a major revolutionary metropolis. id say you can thank history for its scale.

of course, they were born out of different worlds. philly was a walking city of merchants, importers, small markets, tradesman, carts, storefront-sized manufacturing concerns. chicago was born into (and gave birth to) a world of steam and iron, trans-continental railroads, large scale mechanization and natural/agricultural resource processing on a vast scale.

of course by 1900 they were both doing similar things but had been indelibly shaped by the worlds into which they had been born.

jtown,man · #**285** Posted **May 13, 2018, 9:19 PM**

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Tourists or visitors? I would imagine there’s a lot more business travel to Toronto. But I can’t for the life of me think of anything one would go there to see.

I visited back in 2012 for NYE because my gf was under 21 and we wanted to ring in the new year in a big city. It was really pleasant and we met some people we still stay in contact with(FB). I would go back if I were in the area, but once is probably good for another decade or so.

We are currently planning a trip to Montreal. Why? Its like 12 hours away and its cheaper than going overseas, its more exotic.