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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so with a city like Tokyo, did they wind up with a neighborhood that looks so loose and organic because nobody really was looking to plan out the development in advance?
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yes--what you're looking at is what started out as runaway unplanned suburban sprawl in the 40s~60s (iirc), in which new buildings kept being added and old ones redeveloped, iterating again and again over decades
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modern Japanese suburbs, like American ones, may lack coordination *between* particular developments, but are at least rigorously planned (street widths, setbacks, etc) *within* each one
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