[Quixote]

Another more obscure comparison that might leave some bewildered: LA and London.

In the sense that both have a lot of uniform (relatively) medium-level density spread out over a large area (Greater London is a little over 600 square miles). Obviously Outer London was developed and is still oriented around a dense railroad network, and much of it resembles a West Philly vernacular (only without the gridded streets) of wall-to-wall two-story rowhouses lining narrow streets. That's something that simply doesn't exist in LA. But there's a parallel in the sense that these neighborhoods are mostly blocks and blocks of quiet residential streets anchored by a high street activity center. It reminds me a lot of outer Queens (urban form with a bit of a suburban quality), which funny enough, I've compared to LA in the past.