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| Topic | New York City vs. London |
| Parappa09 04/01/17 10:30:21 AM #1: | - It's a very beautiful city and with a lot more interesting buildings. London is a tapestry of historical layers, it's an extremely "explorable" city and even areas that one may not expect to be tourist worthy are wonderful to explore. You could just jump off at a random station and there is a good chance around this transport node will be a "village green", a pub, some nice shops and it will feel pleasant. In comparison, due to the grid pattern, lack of history, poor urban furniture, New York is incredibly ugly. - More obviously designed. This sounds strange but I feel whenever I return to London that a strong sense of design has been employed. Just one deliberately non obvious example, the tube has more architecturally interesting and varied stations, the inside of the tube train will have colour coded railings, seats and be well lit and with interesting tube maps that look good. There will be a lot of recently updated ads in the all with provocative claims and nice photography. - It's more strikingly modern features. This may sound odd for an older city, but returning there is a much stronger sense of modernity in large scale projects. While New York has the new WTC, the new South Ferry Terminus and a Fulton street interchange the predomininant experience of being in New York is that of creaky old infrastructure. It's an arrival into an awful crumbling airport, a taxi along crumbly streets, through old bridges into quite ugly streets. London while generally older is punctuated by a lot of the ultra modern, whether it's a chance arrival at Heathrow T5, a journey in on the new Heathrow Express going past very old houses, arriving at quite a recently refurbished Paddington with quite interesting modern lighting and street furniture, before spending a lot of time on the very old feeling Circle line. - More extensive public transport. London has a much more extensive public transport system, this map does not even include buses. http://www.tfl.gov.uk/assets/dow... It's more obviously there as well, take parts of south London where overground trains when you look out of the plane window take up vast swathes of land to form arteries to the city. Visit Waterloo at 6pm on a Tuesday and compare the freneticism here with that of Penn Station, there is no comparison. You can even get a seat on the New York trains. - More Newspapers Everywhere you look in London are beautifully designed, well written, , often free newspapers, especially on the commute. - Flower Arrangements This is odd, but London has very visable and very plentiful shops selling stunning cut flower arrangements, New York's poor efforts are terrible in comparison. - More sophisticated retailing Another odd one, but London's grocery and chemist stores are a vast improvement on New York's. They may ALL be chains, but visit any Tesco or Waitrose and it's so much nicer than any New York equivalent. They are nicer lit, offer much better goods and at far better prices, they also seem more sophisticated in their selling, offering multibuys, plentiful special offers and much more thought out store design. Shopping for food in London is a delight in comparison. --- ... Copied to Clipboard! |
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