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Originally Posted by Steely Dan
chicago is also the only place left in the midwest where functional neighborhood urbansim still exists at any kind of large scale.
there are only 27 zip codes in the entire midwest with a population density greater than 15,000 ppsm.
26 of them are in chicago.
the other one is in minneapolis.
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I don't agree with this at all. Why did you pick 15,000 people per square mile? That seems arbitrary. And population density really doesn't guarantee functional neighborhood urbanism at all. This part of LA has a ton of residential density, but you'd be hard pressed to find much to walk to:
https://www.google.com/maps/@34.0605...7i16384!8i8192
You can find lively urban neighborhoods with solid business districts in a ton of midwestern cities. Cincinnati alone has 10+ such districts that immediately come to mind. High Street in Columbus is incredibly commercially vibrant for many miles, cutting across multiple neighborhoods. St. Louis and Kansas City both have multiple vibrant urban neighborhoods.