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Originally Posted by Centropolis
i imagine that the mid/outer city would have been closer to NYC outer borough density.
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i doubt it. while that el/subway plan would have been transformative for the city, by the time chicago's outer neighborhoods were being developed, the american dream of owning a single family home was in full-swing, and chicago never had a land crunch anything remotely like island-bound NYC. my guess is that the bungalow belt would have been the bungalow belt, with or without the build-out of that rail plan. however, it would have allowed those areas to become less car-dependent, so we might have witnessed better preservation of the traditional retail strips out in the neighborhoods.