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Originally Posted by hudkina
Bellevue is far more similar to Southfield from a developmental timeline than you'd think.
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I don't understand why some folks are pretending that there is no difference between a suburb with a pre-automobile core and one without such a core.
Again, Bellevue has a downtown, and Southfield doesn't. This means it has a base of walkability, modestly-sized streets, and transit orientation. The fact that Bellevue didn't "start taking off" until the 50's, like 90% of suburbs out there (regardless of whether they have a downtown) is irrelevent.
All the New Urbanist development in Bellevue is in downtown Bellevue, which built on the existing base of pre-sprawl infrastructure. They have a Main Street upon which the city is centered. Southfield shares none of these characteristics and is centerless.