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Originally Posted by Centropolis
the urban core itself is spread out with a lot of secondary urban activity/employment/highrise nodes for the size of the region, almost like a proto-los angeles. i wish i could smoosh it into about half the size at twice the density. the city sprawled up-elevation in the 19th century to outrun its own pollution in the valley, and had a secondary CBD by the 1960s. i remember reading a 1920s planning document that concerned the spreading of "low density" apartment buildings and housing too far west too quickly.
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That makes sense. Like I said, it's likely my Pittsburgh perspective... having a lot of separate neighborhood commercial districts in the core, but they're still all pretty close together, because Pittsburgh is so smooshed together by the hills... probably gives me the impression that things are even more lively than they are in comparison to other cities' districts.