Uptown

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Contents 1 Neighborhoods or regions in several cities 2 United States 3 Canada 4 Music industry 5 Other uses 6 See also

The term uptown often refers to a specific portion of a city in contrast with the local downtown area. The uptown neighborhood or neighborhoods, separated from the city's lower or central business district, may often be residential, sometimes with particularly upscale or fashionable connotation. Such uptown areas may not necessarily be located to the north of or at a higher elevation than the downtown, regardless of designation.

In addition, the name Uptown has multiple meanings:

[edit] Neighborhoods or regions in several cities

[edit] United States

• Charlotte center city ("Uptown Charlotte"), North Carolina
• Uptown, Chicago, Illinois
• Uptown Dallas, Texas
• Uptown (Harrisburg), Pennsylvania
• Uptown, Hartford, Connecticut
• Uptown Houston, Texas
• Uptown, Manhattan, New York
• Uptown, Memphis, Tennessee
• Uptown, Minneapolis, Minnesota
• Uptown New Orleans, Louisiana
• Uptown, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (see Bluff (Pittsburgh))
• Uptown, Seattle, officially known as Lower Queen Anne, Seattle, Washington
• Uptown Tampa, Florida

[edit] Canada

• Uptown Toronto, Ontario
• Uptown, Montreal, Quebec (see Côte-des-Neiges)

[edit] Music industry

• Uptown Girl, pop rock musician Billy Joel's tribute to Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons in his 1983 album An Innocent Man
• Uptown (song), the lead song on Prince's 1980 album Dirty Mind inspired by the Minneapolis neighborhood of the same name
• Uptown, a song recorded by The Crystals in 1968, written by Barry Mann and Cynthia Weil
• Uptown (group), a Korean hip hop and R&B group
• Uptown Girls (group) or "Uptown", a Dallas-based dance music group, active in the 1980s
• Uptown Records, a former record label

[edit] Other uses

• Uptown Munich, a skyscraper in Munich
• Uptown (newspaper), an alternative weekly in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada

[edit] See also

• Concentric ring model
• Downtown
• Midtown

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