Re:How Suburban Are Big American Cities?
by bane on Thursday May 21, 2015 @08:43PM
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Interestingly, if sidewalks measure "urbaness", most surburbs have extensive sidewalks and walking trails within a given development.
NYC in the example is very urban, but Staten Island is about 3x as dense as the (very suburban) suburb where I live -- and it gets very rural out here very quick (we're mostly converted farmland at this point). Staten Island seems fairly suburban to me, lots of single-story family homes with yards. It's almost the definition of a suburb except it happens to be administratively within NYC boundaries.
Manhattan is about 30x as dense as where I live and there's nowhere within 15-20 miles of where I live that even looks as urban as Manhattan. Mile after mile you get multi-story highrises or tiny squashed multi-story town homes that are mostly stairs. Even if you ignore the biggest skyscrapers, there's very few other places quite like it.
NYC in the example is very urban, but Staten Island is about 3x as dense as the (very suburban) suburb where I live -- and it gets very rural out here very quick (we're mostly converted farmland at this point). Staten Island seems fairly suburban to me, lots of single-story family homes with yards. It's almost the definition of a suburb except it happens to be administratively within NYC boundaries.
Manhattan is about 30x as dense as where I live and there's nowhere within 15-20 miles of where I live that even looks as urban as Manhattan. Mile after mile you get multi-story highrises or tiny squashed multi-story town homes that are mostly stairs. Even if you ignore the biggest skyscrapers, there's very few other places quite like it.