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Three of the greatest avenues in Latin America are Avenida Paulista in Sao Paulo, Brazil; Avenida 9 de Julio in Buenos Aires, Argentina; and Paseo de la Reforma in Mexico City.
1. Which one impresses you the most?
2. What do you like about it?
3. What should the other one have to make it better?
I've seen this thread (copy and past, nothing more) on sites like SkyscraperLife, UrbanFreak a lot of times. Thread usually started by some Mexican trying, again and for a thousand of times, to prove that La Reforma is the best place on Earth. Rediculous to say the least. Anyway, THERE IS NO BEST AVENUE IN THE AMERICAS THAN 9 DE JULIO IN BA. So, give up dude!
I like all three of them, but I give the edge to Paseo Reforma. I like the way everything is put together, the street dividers, the access street, the bike paths, the Monuments and public art and I really like the amount of green areas along the street. I also like the mix of old architecture with Modern buidlings.Avenida Paulist seems to have the best traffic signals and lights and well painted lane dividers.
It would be interesting to compare other avenues in cities like Caracas, Lima, Bogota and Santiago.
Avenida 9 de Julio is the perhaps one of the worst urban planning mistakes in the history of Buenos Aires (the other being 8 freeways planned during the 70s dictatorship, of which only 3 were built, phew).
When you walk along the Hausmann inspired Avenida de Mayo your stroll is interrupted by a massive gash in the heart of the city center. The avenue has 7 lanes in each direction, flanked on either side parallel streets of 2 lanes each.
Avenida Paulista is the 2nd least attractive street by pedestrian concerns. There is little to no green scape along the avenue to create a buffer between the noise and traffic of the street and the pedestrians.
Paseo De La Reforma is the oldest of the avenues. First planned under the rule of Habsburg emperor Maximilian
of Mexico in the early 1860s. Maximilian planned the avenue (then called Paseo de la EmperatrÃz) as a connection from his imperial residence at Chapultepec to the center of Mexico City. The avenue was created in the likeness of the boulevards in old European capitals, with wide planted medians flanking the thoroughfare.
I don't understand why people like 9 de Julio. It is basically an expressway. It is 11 lanes wide - no European capital has a boulevard or avenue like that. The avenue is for cars, not pedestrians - a massive scar on the urban fabric of Buenos Aires.
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