Some "Edwardian" housing in Toronto (Palmerston Blvd.)
https://www.google.ca/maps/@43.66034...7i13312!8i6656 What would Americans call this? |
design follows function too. light colors in the sw, brick in the snowbelt for inclement weather, block construction in the south for high humidity, wide soffits of nw bungalows for rain. but i get what you are saying OP. design also follows trends.
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All Great Lakes cities look similarly "coastal"... simply because they are on a coast. And by physical nature of having that defined linear boundary of the lakshore (and usually relatively flat relief in close proximity to the shore) their urban layouts are generally going to be grid patterned.
I'd say that western Great Lakes cities look alike and eastern Great Lakes cities look alike. With eastern Great Lakes cities looking more northeastern and western Great Lakes cities looking more midwestern... primarily based on differences in regional topography... northeast being hilly and midwest being flat. |
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(I just selected areas that I recalled I found surprisingly similar, and put the street view in them.) The argument "someone who knows the city by heart will immediately be able to tell this view is City X and not City Y" does not invalidate at all City X looking like City Y. And also, while I was exploring "the CBD" of LA (finding it surprisingly sterile for a city that size), my main focus wasn't how the mountains in the distance allow to distinguish the Sunbelt-Style Office Towers built form from Houston's... hope that's understandable? I generally find architecture to be more interesting and less interchangeable than distant mountains. |
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That is another thing that the Great Lakes Cities (In the American side) have in common. They are extremely centralized at the coast and expand from there.
https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4234/...09af25bf49.jpgDSC_1146.jpg by Giles Moger, on Flickr https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3941/...0b4e9e6812.jpgCleveland, OH by Anomalous_A, on Flickr https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4193/...098e3588d5.jpgDetroit by Chris Parfeniuk, on Flickr And yeah, I know most American cities are centralized like this, but this is more apparent here. Only the Northeastern cities are this centralized as a group. Many Sunbelt cities have more than one node and there is considerable distance between them. |
Toronto and Detroit seem very similar, especially the suburbs. Toronto has that segmented land use peculiarity though (shopping centers mixed in with light industrial buildings).
http://mapmerizer.mikavaa.com/#11;42...se;false;false random suburbs of Detroit and Toronto: separated at birth? http://mapmerizer.mikavaa.com/#13;42...se;false;false |
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have you been to chicago? its the flattest midwestern region i can think of by quite a large margin. granted i don’t know greater detroit other than quick runs in and out on the expressway or flying. |
Bringing this back to the question of Great Lakes cities, it's interesting to some similarities between L.A. and Detroit: both boomed in the early to mid 20th century(Detroit was late for the North, L.A. was early for the Sunbelt)were early examples of auto-dominated, weak-transit cities.
http://www.urbanophile.com/2012/02/2...pete-saunders/ Of course they had very different economies and locations. |
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It's interesting to note that the flattest lands overall in the Midwest are associated with proglacial lakebeds. The bed of Lake Agassiz is probably the largest stretch of near perfectly flat terrain you'll find on the continent, and Chicago proper is actually built in what was once the margin of proglacial Lake Chicago -- a Lake Michigan precursor. |
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Hamilton, ON has the Niagara Escarpment west of the city http://c7.alamy.com/comp/B1PJEE/skyl...und-B1PJEE.jpg http://c8.alamy.com/comp/FN4ARY/skyl...ing-FN4ARY.jpg Erie, PA rises sharply from the waterfront, but only for a short run, and then in a series of long slopes up to the Allegheny Plateau south of the city http://i.picresize.com/images/2018/01/29/vyjTo.jpg Winter shots with frozen Presque Isle Bay and a snow-capped "peak" http://i.picresize.com/images/2018/01/29/E2ID.jpg http://i.picresize.com/images/2018/01/29/LIHVy.jpg http://i.picresize.com/images/2018/01/29/RouJl.jpg |
Was just in Milwaukee this weekend.
#1 - Best city in the world not named Chicago. #2 - The same mental map I have in my head when I walk around sober in Chicago still works to guide me through the sloshed, jolly, drunken streets of Milwaukee. #3 - Went to an outdoor bar. In January. #4 - After Chicago sprang forth from the ether, the universe got super fucked up, staggered up the coast of Lake Michigan and made another carbon copy. #5 - Done. |
^ milwaukee is a chicago that didn't burn to the ground in the late 19th century and never became the railroad center of the nation.
lovely public lakefronts and super-cool narrow urban rivers that run directly through and bisect (or trisect) their respective downtowns. they are one of the best big brother/little brother city pairs in the country. though the urban cheeseheads up the road do enjoy a bit more of a varied topography with their lakefront bluffs/ravines and actual river valleys. same city, different scales: https://s13.postimg.org/hw1zxhppz/083_money_shot.jpg https://thumbs.dreamstime.com/b/chic...e-16529968.jpg source: me & https://www.dreamstime.com/royalty-f...-image16529968 |
^I have never been to "Milli-wa-kay" (Wayne's World reference), but it seems like it has under performed and the potential for that city is huge with a large lake front presence.
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then again, there are loads of small cities/towns with "large lakefront presences" all freaking over the great lakes region, and the vast majority of them never amounted to anything even 10% as significant as milwaukee, so maybe milwaukee has done just fine for itself? |
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