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kaiden in Asked and Answered, about +14Y ago: (root)
Why have so many huge hotels inexplicably popped up around Anchorage in recent years? Perhaps it hasn't been quite so sudden, or I'm just super unobservant, or I only notice now that I
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kaiden in Asked and Answered, about +14Y ago:
I guess more specifically: Why are huge hotels placed in really, really strange places? Who wants to stay at the Dimond Mall? Or Mid-town? Are tourists really interested in the Bush Company? Or
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Green Man in Asked and Answered, about +14Y ago:
Proximity to things. Those mid-town hotels are next to International, which swiftly connects to the airport. Sometimes that is more convenient than staying downtown, especially if the
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kaiden in Asked and Answered, about +14Y ago:
Hmm. Alright. Maybe I just wish they were something else. Like Fry's Electronics. Or the ever-elusive Olive Garden. More seriously, I guess the hotels' presence makes me feel like
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Green Man in Asked and Answered, about +14Y ago:
> More seriously, I guess the hotels' presence makes me feel like I'm back in Arizona, with pattern-stamped community planning fraught with unoriginality. The majority of
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kaiden in Asked and Answered, about +14Y ago:
(nods) I see what you mean. Anchorage is only a step above Wasilla in that regard. Which is saying that Anchorage is still for-shit when it comes to building community design. We're just a
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Governator in Asked and Answered, about +14Y ago:
Maybe it's because we have lots of space left, but at least we aren't as bad as the lower 48 where as you have apartment/condos and a business park right in the middle of them.  It
...after which +4 days passed until...
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Scrotor in Asked and Answered, about +14Y ago:
Could you draw what you'd like Anchorage to look like on my arm? (I watched (500) Days of Summer last night.)
...after which +1 month passed until...
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CapitolZebra in Asked and Answered, about +14Y ago:
My aunt (in law?) stayed at the Dimond Center Hotel when she came up to Anchorage for my aunt's wedding a few years ago. I was really weirded out by it because I too agree that it is just
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CapitolZebra in Asked and Answered, about +14Y ago:
I actually kinda feel the opposite... Anchorage is starting to slowly run out of wide open spaces. And unless some strict urban planning is initiated, there won't be anywhere for the city to
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Scrotor in Asked and Answered, about +14Y ago:
Anchorage has the shittiest urban planning I have ever seen. Everything is so spread out! It would be almost impossible to develop any kind of efficient public transportation... maybe I'm just
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kitacek in Asked and Answered, about +14Y ago:
well up until 1975 there were two local governments here in the anchorage bowl, so that definitely didn't help with urban planning.
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Green Man in Asked and Answered, about +14Y ago:
You're also trying to compare Portland to a city that is largely not much older than the state oil boom. For a city built and planned around the automobile, we have surprising connectivity.
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Scrotor in Asked and Answered, about +14Y ago:
Well, to me, it would seem that since the city is fairly young that is should have better urban planning! But, really, what I say is good urban planning and what they presumed was better urban
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Scrotor in Asked and Answered, about +14Y ago:
Hmmm, didn't know that. If the current policital shenanigans are any sort of hint, then it certainly would not have helped!
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kitacek in Asked and Answered, about +14Y ago:
There was a bit that was basically downtown anchorage, fairview, and mountain view, and then everything else was the Greater Anchorage Borough, which was everything else that is currently the
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Green Man in Asked and Answered, about +14Y ago:
What I'm saying is that the times dictate decision making (see: master planning). You're comparing a city that arose in the mid 19th century to one that began to flourish well after the
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Green Man in Asked and Answered, about +14Y ago:
I'm also not even bringing up the disparity in the population of the Pacific Northwest versus Alaska. You're comparing a liberal bastion willing to embrace community needs with end of the
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Scrotor in Asked and Answered, about +14Y ago:
Looks like somebody wants to stick it to the man with a vote for Ron Paul...
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Scrotor in Asked and Answered, about +14Y ago:
For Eagle River, my point was that their is traffic at rush hour. I don't think I agree with you in saying that the city was planned well (for cars), but rather that it ended up working
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Green Man in Asked and Answered, about +14Y ago:
"...and I would call that poor urban planning." Hindsight is 20-20.  It is easy to dismiss the rapid development of our urban infrastructure (across the  country) as poor
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Green Man in Asked and Answered, about +14Y ago:
I like clean water, clean air, civil rights, the national parks, food safety standards, medical practice standards, separation of church and state, etc - too much. Also, add a /sarcasm to the
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Scrotor in Asked and Answered, about +14Y ago:
My argument is not really based on a single point comparison to Portland, as you have actually described yourself: "It's not as simple as just adding one link." Indeed, it
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Scrotor in Asked and Answered, about +14Y ago:
Haha oh I know, I was being fascetious. I like Ron Paul, but I would never vote for him because his ideology is a little too extreme. But that's why I like him: unyielding when it comes to his
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kitacek in Asked and Answered, about +14Y ago:
i haven't used any west coast public transport as widely as i've used NYC, Boston, or DC, but from those experiences i'd say DC had it together the best, especially as far as
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