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Originally Posted by eschaton
I've never been to Milwaukee, but looking on population density maps, almost all of the hyper-dense tracts (15,000+ PPSM) are in Latino neighborhoods on the southern side of the city. The built vernacular there isn't incredibly urban. It looks like lots of cottage-style detached wood framed structures with a few larger homes mixed in. Many of them are split into two-units, and it looks like in some cases there might be houses in the alleys. But overall, I'm guessing the relatively high population densities come from a mixture of minimal urban blight (e.g., very few vacant lots or abandoned buildings) and a high number of people per household.
If other Midwestern cities besides Chicago and Milwaukee experienced substantial Hispanic migration, we'd probably see unusually dense neighborhoods of this sort in them as well. |
yeah, i mean i don't think that those densities really come into play when people speak of milwaukee in a positive way. there's nothing spectacular about the architecture (which is quite average for the midwest) or density or any of those things individually. it's how those things come together and are arranged in a cohesive, vibrant enough swath on the lakefront. nice neighborhoods tumble into downtown, at least from the north, in a way that isn't necessarily the norm in the midwest. not to mention the quirky midwestern (great lakes) culture of the place.