At least in my experience most American parking garages are above ground (here in Springfield they are among the tallest buildings in the city lol), but I'm not so fussed about redeveloping *garages* as I am about redeveloping *surface lots.*https://twitter.com/TomGMS/status/1020312439085322240 …
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yeah please take everything I say with the "I've only seen NYC and DC" pill lol. I'm curious though: which do you prefer: the kind of tighter, more packed NYC style of city or a more open, less vertical, sprawling kind?
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There are few if any cities like NYC out there--it doesn't really work as a "type" since it's too unusual. What I like is cities with buildings a lot closer together than they are in NYC, but also a lot smaller than they are in NYC.
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Hong Kong is probably the most similar in terms of "tons of tall buildings" but theirs have much smaller footprints and narrower streets between them
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hong kong's urban setup with seattle weather would be paradise itself
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probably true; here's HK and NY side by side at roughly the same scalepic.twitter.com/ROWg81e4BE
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moving away from downtowns--you can see (kinda) what I mean about building proximity here, comparing Tokyo's Shimokitazawa neighborhood with part of Queenspic.twitter.com/ghezovjbZj
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the symmetry of Queens is almost offensive...is part of the reason for the spacing because people want to have mini-lawns and stuff like that in the open space? or is it just an accident of the way the land was distributed?
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the street layout is done as a grid in queens because it's the easiest way to anticipate where streets/buildings will be in future for a city that's still mostly unbuilt (of course, NOW it's all built out) the mini lawns etc are choices developers made with the plots they had
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