Chicago is far too low on the iconicity scale, at least from a foreign perspective. Everyone has a mental image of Chicago. I couldn't tell you a thing about Nashville, and most people here in Germany have never even heard the name.
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As an aside, I'm constantly amazed that the United States is the third --THIRD-- most populous country on Earth, given it's population was (mostly) wiped out and replaced over the course of a mere three centuries.
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Iconicity?
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all <2m is premium medicore iconicness IMO
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Cities are all the fucking same — Thai food, coffee shop, strip mall bullshit, usw. If want iconic, try Sheridan WY, La Crosse WI, Kalona IA, Red Lodge MT, Homer AK, Fargo ND, anywhere in the UP (Upper Peninsula) MI, Faith SD . . .
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You should be plotting based on metro area population, not the arbitrary formal city boundaries. What we call ”El Aye”, for example, isn’t just the city of Los Angeles, it’s also Beverly Hills, Santa Monica, Glendale, Long Beach, Pasadena, WeHo, Redondo Beach, Pico Rivera, etc.
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I’d also argue that the iconicity of these cities is in no small measure a function of their relationship to their hinterlands. Part of what makes NYC or London so iconic, for example, is that the whole world is their (financial) hinterland.
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Oh this is super interesting
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