^ i don't know that it's necessarily about racing places against each other.
for me, it's about celebrating more traditional pre-war development patterns in the burbs wherever we can find them, be it 19th century new england towns absorbed into a metropolis or early 20th century railroad burbs strung like little pearls across the prairie.
the bottom line is that i just enjoy seeing places like these. and there are only 4 metros in the US with large legacy commuter rail systems that have been in operation since the 19th century where you see this pattern of large-scale railroad suburb development radiating out over giant swaths of the metro area in all directions (NYC, chicago, boston, and philly).
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"Missing middle" housing can be a great middle ground for many middle class families.
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