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DC city wise looks nothing, and I repeat nothing like Atlanta. The far southside of Chicago looks more like Atlanta than DC. Wide streets, strip malls, gas stations, open fields, etc.
I thought you were referring to amenities... but even so, saying it's just a bunch of skyscrapers is an understatement.
So I'll argue it's definitely NOT like every other US city.
considering Chicago birthed the skyscraper and is full of architectural gems and a good 700 or so more buildings over 10 stories than anywhere else in the U.S., more skyscrapers over 150m than Tokyo, Japan...
Chicago's "bunch of skyscrapers" has also a bunch of "true" skyscrapers, having 341 of them over 100m... There is only one other city with over 100 outside NYC and that's Miami, which mostly look like crap and often barely eclipse this.
San Francisco, in comparison, a city often touted for it's Downtown only has 37 over 100m...Boston has 27. Chicago has ~10x this many at 341.
NYC is basically a double or even a triple Chicago, about 2-3x as many skyscrapers, 2-3x the metro population, 2-3x the density, etc.
So no, I wouldn't say it's like anywhere else and very much in it's own league with nobody else even close in the U.S.
I think we both kinda misunderstood each other. I see what you're saying. I didn't mean that Chicago was bland or anything. I really meant that what DC offers is different from the "norm" when it comes to US downtowns. Something that Chicago represents well. That's what I meant.
Even New York Has suburban areas just like that but you won't hear anyone berating them about it since it's on the east coast!
You won't hear anyone berating NYC about it because you can take:
Chicago (227 sq. miles, 2.7 million people)
Los Angeles (468 sq. miles, 3.7 million people)
Dallas (340 sq. miles, 1.2 million people)
Washington, DC (61 sq. miles, 600K people)
And still have fewer people than NYC. And then there's the bridges, tenements, tunnels, and other infrastructure that no city has a match for.
I can't think of one area in Queens that looks like that, though there are a few (very few) along the Long Island border that have kind-of a bungalow-ish look.
But even these areas are maybe 2% of Queens or something, if that. And they don't really look like that South Side neighborhood. There will be more 2-family homes, a few apartment complexes interspersed, etc.
The far South Shore of Staten Island will have places that look like your pic, so there are examples within NYC city limits. But not really Queens.
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