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Compared to A Tier cities in some Asian countries? Does Santa Barbara or NYC really look antiquated compared to Mumbai? Or Da Nang? Or Fukuoka? Maybe if you'r
by onlyrealcuzzo 3y ago
Compared to A Tier cities in some Asian countries?
Does Santa Barbara or NYC really look antiquated compared to Mumbai? Or Da Nang? Or Fukuoka?
Maybe if you're trying to compare Detroit to Shenzhen or Tokyo.
- FrustratedMonky 3y agoFuka What you say to me?
- FrustratedMonky 3y agoGuess the play on words with Fukuoka wasn't funny.
- anonymouskimmer 3y agou ok?
- scythe 3y agoSanta Barbara is a small town with a college/tourist/military economy. New York is an outlier by US standards in every sense, but if you've ridden the subway there you know it feels old, even though it's one of the best systems in the world on paper.
- mitthrowaway2 3y agoFukuoka is probably a bad example for your point. It almost makes Tokyo look antiquated by comparison.
- feoren 3y agoYes, NYC looks and feels like an aging, antiquated city to me. I'd put D.C. above NYC -- it feels cleaner, newer, more efficient. Even London somehow feels less aged than NYC. Sydney, Helsinki, Copenhagen, and Amsterdam are a tier up again, and then cities like Tokyo and Singapore look like they're from the future.
- vineyardmike 3y ago> Even London somehow feels less aged than NYC. Because London was partially bombed and rebuilt within the last generation. New York wasn’t. NYC was built a while ago, and a lot of that infrastructure and builds still work.
- Xcelerate 3y agoNYC looks older than Paris somehow, even though that shouldn’t make sense.
- jfengel 3y agoParis was substantially rebuilt in the mid 19th century. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haussmann%27s_renovation_of_Paris https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haussmann%27s_renovation_of_Pa... A lot of what you think of as "Paris style" is much newer than New York City. NYC has plenty of buildings older than that, and more importantly, its grid pattern is even older. New York does have many newer buildings, while Paris deliberately prevented much modernization after that. Downtown Paris has no skyscrapers except the Eiffel Tower itself, but it does have modern business centers pushed off to the outskirts of the city.