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Originally Posted by TempleGuy1000
Philadelphia's main line is probably a pretty good US example. Though it isn't directly west, but runs in a line northwest of the city.
Even the archieture in west philadelphia and northwest philly tends to be much more ornate than the eastern side of the city near the Delaware and old industry.
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The Main Line is not a "side" of Philadelphia though. It's not considered to be "west side" of Philadelphia. It's former estate lands and wealthy suburbs that has grown along with the city for the past century and a half.
It's not a favored side of the city, but rather one of the earliest examples of the wealthy suburbs in the US.
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Originally Posted by Docere
There isn't really an "east" though in Philadelphia. Like Chicago, there's north, south and west.
From what I understand, West Philadelphia was a fairly middle class area in the early to mid-20th century.
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Eh... kind of... but not quite the same situation as with Chicago. Philly is certainly more oriented north-south -- numbered streets designated as "N" or "S", paralleling a N-S axis tells us that.
But with Philly, Center City is center city... with a large chunk of extremely dense, old urbanity to its east up to the Delaware. We obviously don't talk about East Philadelphia, but it does exist a bit more in reality than it does in a city like Chicago where the central core aligns along a coast.