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Originally Posted by alki
Except that's a big difference.....a very big difference. More people take mass transit in NY because the distances are more compact and because mass transit was an important part of NYC's planning and development. And the distance from DTLA to Santa Monica is much larger than the distance between lower Manhattan to Midtown. I have walked it. I would never try to walk from DT to SM.
In fact, the entire island of Manhattan is 13 miles long......with midtown in the lower middle of the island......so about 6 miles or less from downtown. The distance from DTLA to SM is more than 16 miles.......longer than the entire island of Manhattan.
Frankly, I don't see the comparison.
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Well, as they say, all metaphors limp.
The main analogy is that Manhattan is not one 2 sq. mile area; it is extended over about 10 miles from Battery to Columbia, 12 miles to Yankee Stadium. Similarly, LA is about 12 miles from DT to SM. The shopping, civic and commercial districts; sporting, entertainment, museums, dining, nightlife, etc., are spread from one end to the other (although tending to concentrate in Wall St., SoHo, Greenwich Village, Times Sq., Midtown, and the areas around Central Park up to about 80th.
The analogy to DT, Wilshire, Hollywood, BH, Beverly Center, CC, Westwood, WLA and SM are farily obvious. No one of these is a great urban center but together they form a truly great urban center in NY's case, and a developing worldclass center in LA's case.
Again, it reverts to the idea of a single city with various districts, not squabbling cities with irreconcilable interests.
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