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>I haven't been to Berlin, so I don't know exactly how big it is, but one would not typically call "within 2km of city center" a suburb. One would typically cal
by xxpor 12y ago
>I haven't been to Berlin, so I don't know exactly how big it is, but one would not typically call "within 2km of city center" a suburb. One would typically call 2km from a city center, "the next neighborhood over in the city".
This is an American/Canadian vs Australian (and possibly European) thing.
From speaking to Australians, Downtown is the Central Business District, and everything else is a suburb.
- moron4hire 12y agoIt seems weird to think of anything that is a part of the urban area be called sub-urban.
- PavlovsCat 12y agoI'm not sure where one would place the "center" of Berlin, but Berlin-Mitte (which you could translate as "Berlin Central") is really mostly banks and insurance companies, tourists and expensive hotels. It's not very urban, or alive. It's just... there.