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Originally Posted by tech12
Center City is not as dense as downtown SF. The densest census tract in downtown SF has 171k people per square mile, while the densest in Philly has 64k per square mile.
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Nobody lives in office buildings, hotels, or labs. American city downtowns skew towards these uses. Center City is mostly office buildings.
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Originally Posted by tech12
SF has four downtown neighborhoods with multiple tracts above 100,000 per square mile: The Tenderloin, Nob Hill, Chinatown, and Rincon Hill. Philly has none. Philly is impressive, but it's not more impressive than SF when it comes to density, which for the record, is something that I've noticed myself when I've visited Philly.
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I'm not talking about the other tracts, or overall population density. Boston has denser tracts and its downtown is surrounded by a significantly grander (if comparatively limited) set of row-house type residentials than Philly's downtown. That doesn't matter. I'm specifically pointing towards Center City as the closest North American approximation of being in Manhattan outside of NYC itself. It makes sense considering they're only 2 hours apart.
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