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Originally Posted by pj3000
Relative to their own sizes, they have small downtown cores. That's correct.
But they are still orders of magnitude (literally) larger than Phoenix's. For the very reasons, both you and I have stated.
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Yes and they are undersized relative to their metro pops for the same reason all cities post ww2 are, including Phoenix, including many in the south.
Phoenix is particularly notable as it is the only MAJOR metro that was built nearly entirely in the car oriented era.