Madison and Chicago

Chef · #1 Posted **Oct 28, 2022, 8:24 AM**

I was only in each city for a half a day, so these aren't all encompassing tours, just what I got.

Madison

Chicago

EastSideHBG · #2 Posted **Oct 28, 2022, 2:32 PM**

Wonderful!

thegoatman · #3 Posted **Oct 28, 2022, 11:40 PM**

Madison and Chicago my fav 2 midwest cities

Driver8 · #4 Posted **Oct 29, 2022, 1:33 PM**

I don't think I've seen a Madison photo thread on this site before. Looks like a charming place.

Chef · #5 Posted **Oct 30, 2022, 6:51 AM**

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Originally Posted by Driver8

I don't think I've seen a Madison photo thread on this site before. Looks like a charming place.

Madison is without a doubt the best city in the Midwest with a metro of under a million. Because it is on a a narrow isthmus it was impossible to build freeways into its urban core. I think that allowed it to keep its prewar city feel that most other American cities lost.

destroycreate · #6 Posted **Oct 30, 2022, 5:01 PM**

Fantastic set. Would love to visit Madison one day.

Also, Chicago is just such an incredible and underrated city.

Coldrsx · #7 Posted **Oct 30, 2022, 6:48 PM**

Fantastic scale and diversity.

Murphy de la Sucre · #8 Posted **Oct 31, 2022, 1:39 AM**

Good to see the cute little downtown core of Madison.

Residential houses right next to office buildings in downtown ... living right next to working.

geomorph · #9 Posted **Oct 31, 2022, 5:57 AM**

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The scale of this building is larger than I imagined for this city!

Chef · #10 Posted **Nov 1, 2022, 10:09 PM**

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Originally Posted by geomorph

The scale of this building is larger than I imagined for this city!

The area of Madison between the capitol and the UW is one of the densest in the Midwest outside of Chicago.

Steely Dan · #11 Posted **Nov 2, 2022, 6:52 PM**

great set of two of the midwest's best!

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The area of Madison between the capitol and the UW is one of the densest in the Midwest outside of Chicago.

yeah, madison's isthmus squeeze-play creates one of the densest little pockets anywhere in the region.

madison doesn't act "big city" over a vast area or anything, but for where it does, it does so convincingly.

core madison has ~21,000 people living in 3 census tracts all 3 of which are over 45,000 ppsm.

in total, those three core tracts have 20,846 people on 0.337 sq. miles of land, for an overall average density of nearly 62,000 ppsm, which is crazy dense for the midwest.