Should there be any doubt that LA belongs among the big 6 urban US cities?

[Steely Dan]

Originally Posted by Quixote

This linear-based urbanism is how U.S. and British isles cities are structured at the non-core neighborhood level. It’s more diluted, less intense, and less three-dimensional than Mediterranean urbanism.

And more preferable for raising kids, IMO.

Central Barcelona is cool as fuck, but no way in hell would I want to be raising my family in the thick of that kinda density.

I'll gladly keep my neighborhood chicago middle urbanism, thank you very much.