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Originally Posted by jmecklenborg
Frankly I'm surprised that this isn't better-known on urbanist boards.
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the high quality 19th century urbanism of cincy's basin is very well known in urbanist circles.
i was merely pushing back on your claim that it had
the densest neighborhoods in the nation outside of NYC at the time.
my spidey senses went something like,
"oh, that's a fairly bold claim, surely there were neighborhoods in boston, philly, or baltimore that were just as dense, or even denser back then, no?", so i asked for some back-up for the claim and all i got was essentially
"it's in some old books about cincinnati".
i know that cincy's basin nabes were very densely built and populated, and if the original claim was merely "
some of the most densely populated neighborhoods outside of NYC", i probably wouldn't have batted an eyelash.
and to crawford's point, tract-level density data was most likely pretty spotty back then (did they even use tracts/block groups back then?), so the issue of which city had
the densest hoods outside of NYC in the mid-19th century will likely remain unprovable.
i am more than happy to agree that cincy had
some of the densest neighborhoods back in the day for the sake of moving on.
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