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Using Ithaca, NY as a qualifier perhaps Ann Arbor or Madison are good examples.
by yawgmoth 5y ago
Using Ithaca, NY as a qualifier perhaps Ann Arbor or Madison are good examples.
- ghaff 5y agoAll of which are college towns to some degree. (Or at least have large universities.) There are a fair number of smaller cities in the Northeast US with walkable cores. I worked in downtown Nashua for about eight years at one point though I didn't go in all the time. A number of those cores are even rather gentrified with nice restaurants, a park or two, newer housing, and so forth. Here's the thing though. It's a fairly consistent pattern. The gentrified area is usually pretty small. Things are distinctly less nice when you get out of that area. And you probably need to get in a car to do anything beyond the most basic shopping. Beyond the Northeast, somewhere like Raleigh NC is the same pattern.