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Originally Posted by the urban politician
Your cited example is Belmont Ave....way the hell out....west of friggin Cicero Ave?
Dude, that's practically in the burbs.
Anyhow, you're kind of preaching to the choir--all of us here like multilevel buildings with a pedestrian oriented bent. So I don't know what you're trying to achieve by reminding us of how much European cities resemble a magical paradise built by Elves and Gnomes. Lest you forgot--America is kind of a "car is king" kinda place, so we have a wee bit of an uphill battle over here...
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I’m from Chicago, I get it. It’s better than 99% of places in the US. But let’s not get carried away. Nowhere in the world has the consistent pedestrian-oriented density that Paris has (not even NYC or London), and it couldn’t be recreated now. The urban fabric there is unparalleled. And it’s top of mind for me right now because I was there last weekend.
My point remember was that it would be nice to have some variation in the topography on the outskirts of Chicago. I might have posted Belmont west of the Kennedy, but that’s more representative of Chicago’s 220+ square miles than Belmont between the Red Line and Lincoln Park. And even Clark St through Lincoln Park or Lakeview doesn’t have the consistent 6-8 story streetwalls of Paris. It was a poor comparison.
This is good, but it’s not Paris:
https://goo.gl/maps/s4x81Z4yYqK2