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I checked out some of the 50 cities they name on here and there's a curious way they decide what counts as "central city" for some of them. e.g. Denver's map d
by z3ugma 4y ago
I checked out some of the 50 cities they name on here and there's a curious way they decide what counts as "central city" for some of them.
e.g. Denver's map does cover the central business district but it misses a lot of the neatly adjacent places that _are_ designed for people and not cars. If the whole thesis is "make our downtowns places that are desirable to get to, and not just office parks" then the raw percentages are a little disingenuous.
Mind, the root cause that only office towers and their associated parking can really be built in that CBD...that's the big problem
- JeremyNT 4y agoI agree, I don't think the way they distill this to a single number and present it as an apples-to-apples comparison is very helpful. There's too much variability in what the "central city" is, and I think it's quite challenging to determine a useful number to compare between metros as they are laid out so very differently. The maps themselves are interesting and potentially even useful, on the other hand.