i really like how Cincinnati for lack of a better word is “square based” vs Street based” if that makes sense. a lot of Cities (St Louis, Cleveland, Philly) have main drags that serve as “Main Street” for like 6 consecutive neighborhoods.
Cincinnati has distinct village centers and I think that’s cool.
i also like how organic the city is. Like Boston it doesn’t have this manufactured grandness baked into the city design like Buffalo, Detroit and Cleveland the city just kind of is.
Obviously due to the lower density Oakley, Walnut Hills, Hyde Park etc are more spaced out than Inman sq, Coolidge Corner, Kenmore Sq, Union Sq etc. but I feel like a filled in Cincinnati (or the Cincinnati of 1950) would seem a lot more like Boston than anywhere else, other than maybe Pittsburgh.