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Completely disregarding which city you like better, which would you say has more of an urban look and feel to it? I always assumed it would be Cincinnati, but a lot of people from Atlanta are arguing otherwise. As I don't personally know too much about either city, I was interested to see what other people thought--particularly those who aren't from either city.
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Well their density levels appear to be in the same ball park. 4,000-4,200 (Cincinnati being the higher of the two cities) people per square mile. But the thing with it is that Cincinnati has had a lot more development on its more smaller land area where you don't see more wildlife and trees within the city compared to Atlanta. Basically when it developed it had its infrastructure established decade ago. Atlanta is doing that right now.
So by metro Atlanta feels bigger, but just the city proper alone the edge slightly goes to Cincinnati, but not for long Atlanta has a high infill rate (as do all the emerging sunbelt cities).
atlanta does better with transit and is building with greater density, but it will never come close to matching cincinnati's wealth of authentic urban neighborhoods. no contest. cincinnati is overflowing with urban attributes that atlanta just...isn't.
Well their density levels appear to be in the same ball park. 4,000-4,200 (Cincinnati being the higher of the two cities) people per square mile. But the thing with it is that Cincinnati has had a lot more development on its more smaller land area where you don't see more wildlife and trees within the city compared to Atlanta. Basically when it developed it had its infrastructure established decade ago. Atlanta is doing that right now.
So by metro Atlanta feels bigger, but just the city proper alone the edge slightly goes to Cincinnati, but not for long Atlanta has a high infill rate (as do all the emerging sunbelt cities).
This is basically what the Atlanta posters were trying to say in the other thread..
Atlanta has 233 skyscrapers compared to Cincinnati's 125. Atlanta has a rapid transit system; Cincinnati does not. I'm going with Atlanta.
skyscrapers don't have much to do with urbanity, only that the buildings are tall. street level is where urbanity comes into play. Cincinnati doesn't have the rapid transit because a lot of its urbanity is frankly urban decay and Atlanta is currently the much more prosperous city able to fund stuff like public trans.
Atlanta. It's rapidly growing, and Cincy is losing population. Atlanta's downtown is sprawling, but slowly densifying.
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