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Originally Posted by eschaton
But I do think it's more on par with Minneapolis overall in terms of scope than second to only Chicago.
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oh for sure. when it comes to scale and scope of urbanism in the midwest, chicago operates on an entirely different level. chicago is to the rest of the midwest as NYC is to the rest of the nation. it's just on a different level.
when we say things like "milwaukee is like a mine-me chicago", no part of that statement has anything to do with the scale and scope of urbanism found in the two cities. the milwaukee/chicago comparison gets made so often because of their similar geographies (open, public lakefronts and urban river canyons), histories, and demographics. and of course their proximity to each other.
but all of those similarities operate at very different scales.