Are most US cities actually suburban?

[Sankofa Alwayz]

You meant to say Bmore doesn't have transit outside of buses? Cuz they got a subway, it's medicore but they got one lol.

Bmore also got a light rail line and I think water taxi service. They would’ve gotten another light rail line or subway line but Governor Hogan bushed that plan.

 

[Sankofa Alwayz]

More like houses though there are more apartment buildings being built.

Downtown is between i5 and the waterfront...soon as you go east past i5 you see more trees and single homes with more apartment buildings.

Minneapolis seems like a similarly built city.

 

[Sankofa Alwayz]

Even the rowhouses in Manhattan have backyards and shyt

Wait, really?

 

[Cave Savage]

Wait, really?

Yeah, my Uncle had one in Greenwich Village and it has a backyard.

 

[Sankofa Alwayz]

That definitely looks about right for DC. Half of the city consists of massive apartment buildings while most of the other half are mostly rowhouses (a good amount of whom are also apartments) with some semi-detached homes, old SFHs, mansions, mid century garden apartments, and new construction townhomes mixed in.

 

[Kyle C. Barker]

That definitely looks about right for DC. Half of the city consists of massive apartment buildings while most of the other half are mostly rowhouses (a good amount of whom are also apartments) with some semi-detached homes, old SFHs, mansions, mid century garden apartments, and new construction townhomes mixed in.

Yup it totally nailed DC and also broke down why Baltimore and Philadelphia look so Damn similar.


295 is only 32 miles long but it's so dope how it connects 2 different cities with 2 different vibes

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[mannyrs13]

I always said this being from Brooklyn. Unless it's Chicago, NY, Jersey, Philly, Boston, DC, Bodymore.. Miami., Bay, and LA, all the other cities just suburbs facts

Miami is mostly suburban. A small part is urban with tall buildings but overall most of the metropolitan area is suburban.

 

[KingJudah2]

Another thing about Northeast cities that I don’t see much of.

Even in the burbs you got mini cities

Cambridge, MA
Yonkers, NY
Newark, NJ
Jersey City, NJ.

Funny enough all residents in these particular places will tell you they aren’t suburban people.

These are cities not suburbs. They are in the NYC metro area but their own cities. I don't understand what youre saying.

A Suburb would be levittown, or Hempstead LI, or Verona,NJ.

Parts of NYC especially Queens are more suburban in design than Jersey City or Newark. Way more private houses with lawns. I don't think you fully get what Suburbs are and what cities are.

 

[EndDomination]

I'm also don't get the idea that suburban=lower crime/nicer place to live

There are plenty of terrible suburban neighborhoods in New York and plenty of really upscale urban ones, and it was like that even before the hypergentrification of NYC

They’re referring to affluent suburbs.
Every medium-to-large city in the US has affluent suburbs, often white flight suburbs, with vastly lower crime rates.

 

[UberEatsDriver]

These are cities not suburbs. They are in the NYC metro area but their own cities. I don't understand what youre saying.

A Suburb would be levittown, or Hempstead LI, or Verona,NJ.

Parts of NYC especially Queens are more suburban in design than Jersey City or Newark. Way more private houses with lawns. I don't think you fully get what Suburbs are and what cities are.

Yes I do get what cities and suburbs are. Every suburb across America has mini cities.

What I’m saying is Jersey City, Yonkers, Newark and Cambridge MA are cities that are part of a metro area.

For example many people who live in these places have to commute to the main city for work. So many Cambridge MA people go to work in Boston. Many jersey city, Newark folks go to work in NYC and even have a commuter rail that takes them into the city.

The same thing can be applied to Inglewood and Compton. They are cities that are located in the burbs of a major city.

 

[ORDER_66]

Yes/Thread there's entire states of open land. First time I took Amtrak of of manhattan going upstate nothing but fukking mountains and trees...
I felt so weirded out...

 

[murksiderock]

Which Southern cities? New Orleans might be more urban than Fort Worth but it doesn't seem that urban to me once you leave the French Quarter/Downtown area

Richmond is one of the more urban southern cities without a doubt. It shares a part of its history and culture with Washington and Baltimore, and has the build within its inner city of those cities as well. Obviously Richmond is much smaller, and I'd also say Rich has a larger ratio of suburban areas than those two as well, but within central Rich, it is a microcosm of DC with some shared traits with Baltimore as well...

I got a chance to vacation in both Pittsburgh and Cleveland in 2017, and while without question those cities are bigger than Rich, Richmond compares very well to those cities on an urban scale...

 

[UberEatsDriver]

Yes/Thread there's entire states of open land. First time I took Amtrak of of manhattan going upstate nothing but fukking mountains and trees...
I felt so weirded out...

Even tho you felt weirded out you expected to see that right?

 

[KingJudah2]

Yes I do get what cities and suburbs are. Every suburb across America has mini cities.

What I’m saying is Jersey City, Yonkers, Newark and Cambridge MA are cities that are part of a metro area.

For example many people who live in these places have to commute to the main city for work. So many Cambridge MA people go to work in Boston. Many jersey city, Newark folks go to work in NYC and even have a commuter rail that takes them into the city.

The same thing can be applied to Inglewood and Compton. They are cities that are located in the burbs of a major city.

I get what you're saying. But the "mini cities" are not in a suburb. They're cities. Theyre in a metro area.
LA is different. LA was only downtown until 1990 then they annexed the suburbs around downtown like Compton to make LA a big "city" to get that fed money. NYC, Newark, Jersey City were established back then as they are now and still have the same borders. LA is just a network of suburbs that they call a city. Out west is newer so they played with the borders more since it wasn't as built up. NYC always been NYC, Newark always been Newark. Yonkers been Yonkers, Cambridge been Cambridge. These are cities and urban areas (high pop density) not suburbs or in suburbs.

 

[murksiderock]

I get what you're saying. But the "mini cities" are not in a suburb. They're cities. Theyre in a metro area.
LA is different. LA was only downtown until 1990 then they annexed the suburbs around downtown like Compton to make LA a big "city" to get that fed money. NYC, Newark, Jersey City were established back then as they are now and still have the same borders. LA is just a network of suburbs that they call a city. Out west is newer so they played with the borders more since it wasn't as built up. NYC always been NYC, Newark always been Newark. Yonkers been Yonkers, Cambridge been Cambridge. These are cities and urban areas (high pop density) not suburbs or in suburbs.

This is wrong on a whole bunch of levels. Let's just start with the fact that LA had the same land area square mileage in 1990 that it has today, 30 years later, and we'll go from there...