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Poll: Do North American cities look the same?
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View Poll Results: Do they?
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Yes
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No
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Member Since: 4/20/2012
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By cities, are you referring to New York, Boston, Chicago, DC, Philadelphia, San Francisco, LA, and Seattle? All of those cities look completely different. Even cities like NY have boroughs that look completely different from each other yet are larger than most American cities. Brooklyn has three major downtowns, all with more 50+ story buildings than Atlanta and Baltimore combined. If Brooklyn was its own city, it would be the second largest and most populous in the United States. Queens is similar, with several downtowns, including Long Island City and Astoria. Bronx is also similar. Jersey City is also distinct from NYC across the river.
Smaller American cities/suburbs do tend to look similar, though, like Pittsburg, Denver, Baltimore, Arlington, Minneapolis, Kansas City, St. Lewis, etc, but no one who is relevant really cares about them unless your parents live there.
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Member Since: 8/19/2013
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Originally posted by slayships
Yes america is a prime example of monopoliysation. Same buildings, same fat ass people, same franchises. Australian skylines all look different, cool and interesting Americans should take notes.
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If you can't tell the difference between these, Idk what to tell you
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Australian skyline have nowhere near the diversity. I think Europe even has more diversity in in it's skyline architecture. It's not close
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Originally posted by MaRy
could u tell where this is from?
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That's just a typical suburb though. Suburbs have a very generic look here
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Member Since: 5/28/2011
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Quote:
Originally posted by MaRy
could u tell where this is from?
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Well, first of all, that's a suburb (and probably a subdivision, too), not a city.
And second, the same applies to every other country. You named four big cities in Italy that are all easily distinguishable. In the US, the cities New York, Chicago, Miami and Los Angeles look nothing alike.
I doubt you could tell any Italian suburbs from each other.
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Member Since: 8/13/2012
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I could not tell the suburbs but I could tell if the suburb is in the north, central, south etc. In Canada Quebec City and Calgary suburbs look the same...
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Member Since: 2/2/2014
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Well yeah... they're suburbs. The epitome of monotony. Outer suburban Rome doesn't look that different from outer suburban Florence.
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Member Since: 4/3/2014
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What? 
Have you been to every major North American city? You can't base an opinion off if pictures on Google.
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Member Since: 5/18/2012
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Does New York look anything like Veracruz?
Does Toronto look anything like Havana?
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Member Since: 4/20/2012
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Anyone who has been to any major US city would never say something so stupid and ignorant.
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Member Since: 1/1/2014
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Originally posted by MaRy
not in italy...
venice vs florence vs rome vs naples... so different, different architecture, different streets: Venice does not have cars, Florence has gray buildings with red roofs, rome has lost of marble, naples has narrow streets etc.
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i understand what you mean, however you're saying this as an italian
ny, la, miami, chicago, new orleans, philadelphia all look completely different to me
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Member Since: 8/19/2013
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Yeah I was thinking about that the other day. I think the fact that sometimes film studios shoot in a different city than the story is actually set kinda proves your point, since they make city a look just like city b
But that's not a U.S.-only thing, though. A lot of cities here in Brazil look the same too
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Member Since: 8/19/2013
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Originally posted by Haus
Doesn't this apply to like, every city, everywhere?  |
No!
Johannesburg and Cape Town and Durban look soooo different from each other.
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Member Since: 8/7/2015
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Member Since: 9/17/2011
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You think NA cities look the same?
have you seen cities in Siberia and good ol' commie blocks?
Looking like Lego villages
Murmansk, Russia
Anadyr, Russia
Yakutsk, Russia
Novosibirsk, Russia
Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, Russia
Severomorsk, Russia
Magadan, Russia
and let's not forget the ex-gulag closed city of Norilsk, Russia 
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Member Since: 8/16/2011
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No, Chicago is the best city in the world.
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Member Since: 9/3/2011
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I think because America rapidly expanded and grew industrially at pretty much the same time, there is architectural autonomy throughout some cities i.e similar style. Unlike Europe which didn't all boom at the same time and features more diversity.
Italy's cities are all very distinctive and beautiful. 
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Member Since: 3/8/2014
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US cities >>>
European cities look all the same imo. I live in Germany and besides Frankfurt on the main and Berlin, all of our cities are boring
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Member Since: 3/5/2011
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You're joking 
Chicago, New York, LA, Miami, DC etc look NOTHING alike. What.
European cities (and I've been to Europe) are the ones that are mostly interchangeable sans the landmarks
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Member Since: 8/7/2015
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Quote:
Originally posted by like2throw
Its funny how the ones talking about U.S cities are members that dont even live there.
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They hate us 'cause they ain't us.
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Member Since: 8/7/2015
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Anyway no each city has something different
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