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Originally Posted by Citylover94
Boston is arranged more like the "donut" model with a wealthy center and then lower income neighborhoods in the rest of the urban area with wealthier areas resuming outside their but most of the wealthiest areas are concentrated towards the west and northwest of the city.
Here is a map of per capita income.
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Originally Posted by Cirrus
Here's the simplified version for DC. Basically, go northwest.
And here's Denver/Boulder. Both face southeast.
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These two surprised me. In a lot of cities, "favoured quarters" tend to have geographic advantages; ie being near or in the region's more interesting geographic features. In Minneapolis, its the lakes, in LA its the coast and the hills, in Vancouver its the mountains and coast.
Following that logic, Boston's favoured quarters would more likely hug the coastline and Denver's hug the Front Ranges, but they don't. Instead, the favoured quarters abutt prairie and forest.
Why is this?