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Decent offering. Seattle is one of the American cities that I need to visit sooner or later.
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Well god damn! You must have been in One Convention Place, which apparently has some awesome views! Phenomenal post.
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Had to do a double-take. I work near there, and if that guy was taller, not carrying water, and wearing a hat he'd look a lot like me! Well, not really, but I wear jeans every day and have black jackets.


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Great set. Looks like you covered a lot of ground. Hope you had a nice visit.
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Gorgeous natural setting, dense cityscape, some great architecture, my kind of politics...Seattle has to be heaven in an urban form. The U of Washington is high on my list of prospective grad schools (astronomy/physics), and its location right in Seattle is a large factor.
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Old Posted Apr 8, 2012, 5:14 AM
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I had no idea that Seattle had such an extensive amount of 4 to 7 floor pre war apartment buildings. Some of them may be from the 50's but wow, there are a shit load of them. Did this surprise anyone else? I'm not sure if it was just the way they were shot in this thread that made it look more dense than it really is. Compared to San Diego it looks like Seattle has 5 times the amount of 4+ floor residential structures in its core area...
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I had no idea that Seattle had such an extensive amount of 4 to 7 floor pre war apartment buildings. Some of them may be from the 50's but wow, there are a shit load of them. Did this surprise anyone else? I'm not sure if it was just the way they were shot in this thread that made it look more dense than it really is. Compared to San Diego it looks like Seattle has 5 times the amount of 4+ floor residential structures in its core area...
Having been there 2X in the past year I can tell you that it assuredly does (compared to SD). It's a pretty impressive city without a doubt.

My wife described it as a 'clean' San Francisco, without the chaos.

Excellent photos Thundertubs, some real gems in there.
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I might be moving to Seattle this fall. I've only been there for two days and didn't get to see much of the city. This thread gives me even more to be excited about. I expect that I'll greatly enjoy it there.
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Another great thread. I see Seattle has something going on.
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makin' it rain in the city of rain with tubs. real nice profilin', homie. rainier above the clouds is something else.

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I had no idea that Seattle had such an extensive amount of 4 to 7 floor pre war apartment buildings. Some of them may be from the 50's but wow, there are a shit load of them. Did this surprise anyone else? I'm not sure if it was just the way they were shot in this thread that made it look more dense than it really is. Compared to San Diego it looks like Seattle has 5 times the amount of 4+ floor residential structures in its core area...
Seattle boomed a half century earlier than San Diego. By 1910, it was already #21 with 237,194 people and would have a post-war peak in 1960 of 557,087 before a few decades of decline leading up to the current boom. On the other hand, San Diego didn't crack the top 25 until 1960, fifty years after Seattle and well into the suburban era.
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Does the fact that they are built on a slightly inclining hill give an illusion that there are more of them? I'm speaking of the multiple shots where he shows the neighborhood with "El Capitan" apartments at the bottom. That area looks like it is uber dense, almost like Westlake in LA. What is that neighborhood like, is it as dense as it looks in these shots from Thundertubs?
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Does the fact that they are built on a slightly inclining hill give an illusion that there are more of them? I'm speaking of the multiple shots where he shows the neighborhood with "El Capitan" apartments at the bottom. That area looks like it is uber dense, almost like Westlake in LA. What is that neighborhood like, is it as dense as it looks in these shots from Thundertubs?
That's the west slope of Capitol Hill. It is really that dense. Lots of pre-war buildings plus a good amount of new construction (usually 6 stories on the new stuff). I also think the slope of the hill highlights the density.
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^^^ Thanks Seasky, how dense are those inner Seattle Census tracts? Do they have corner stores and urban amenities everywhere? Not to highjack this thread but pics of those areas would be appreciated.
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^^^ Thanks Seasky, how dense are those inner Seattle Census tracts? Do they have corner stores and urban amenities everywhere? Not to highjack this thread but pics of those areas would be appreciated.
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The first 2010 density map I found is the one below. The area you're interested in is the darker red area just east of I-5 from Downtown (I-5 is the eastern highway shown on the map - the western one is Highway 99). The blogger looked at block groups (smaller than tracts) and estimated the density in the densest one in this area at 65K people/square mile. Not sure about the accuracy of his calculations.

http://buildthecity.wordpress.com/20...n-density-map/

Retail is primarily concentrated along the Pike/Pine Corridor, along Olive Way, and on Broadway which is the next major north-south arterial east of Downtown. I can't think of an urban amenity that wouldn't be available in this area. A lot of folks are also able to walk to work Downtown and it's a fairly quick commute to the UW for students. The light rail station on Broadway opens in 2016 and in advance of that a streetcar that goes down Broadway to First Hill (where the hospitals are) and the International District before arriving at the big train station and Pioneer Square should be running prior to that. There's also a ton of bus service.


The City of Seattle doesn't have the 2010 data up yet - for reference here's their 2000 density map by census tract:

http://www.seattle.gov/dpd/cms/group...pds_006728.pdf

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