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Originally Posted by badrunner
Miami is entirely waterfront oriented which gives it higher peak density, but there is a dramatic dropoff into suburban stroad hell once you go inland a bit. LA is denser and more urban throughout with nodes of activity distributed across the metro. But the biggest difference is LA's huge swath of prewar urban bones and its Historic Core. It makes a big difference in the character of the two cities. An LA without its prewar bones would still be huge and vibrant, but it would feel a little less urban.
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And it’s the prewar bones that I’m getting at. LA has always been streetcar/automobile oriented in its urban layout but it’s still very dense, relatively walkable, and is just lends itself to being more urban than anywhere else I been to in the Sunbelt.
Miami has more of that than the rest of the Sunbelt outside of LA, but the latter is just one another scale.
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