Posted Sep 7, 2019, 2:25 PM
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Join Date: Jun 2018
Location: Loop, Chicago
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Originally Posted by Crawford
To me, yeah, B and C are far more urban, because they have the prewar bones. I recently stayed a few nights right around A, and while very pleasant, park-filled and family-friendly, that corner of the South Loop did not strike me as particularly appealing to hard-core urbanites. Lots of townhouses with attached 2 car garages on quiet streets and giant podium towers.
My son had a blast at multiple playgrounds on a South Loop street with this typology. Great in-town location, not particularly urban:
https://www.google.com/maps/@41.8640...7i13312!8i6656
IMO there are multiple typologies that prefer urban cores. Some prefer urban cores because they're intensely dense and active, and polar opposite of suburbia, some prefer because they're convenient to work, going out and friends. The South Loop generally attracts more of the latter. |
Well Dearborn Park 2 is... Special. Probably the worst planning mistake in Chicago in recent history.
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