Feeling a little claustrophobic lately? Well, it’s not just you — newly released numbers from the Census Bureau say Angelenos are living in the nation's most densely-populated urban area.
New York still has the highest population, but at 7,000 people per square mile, the Los Angeles/Anaheim/Long Beach area takes the density prize.
— scpr.org
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Uhh... ridiculous - 69,464 per square mile - Manhattan - This absurd filter puts Delano, CA ahead of NYC... goes to show you, statistics is an art form.
This is ridiculous. The point of urban density is to bring all the people into a single locale, thereby increasing the accessibility to whatever functions it is that they may desire. Analysing urban density on these scales (massive regional/cross-county/cross-state) it not relevant in terms of the urban and architectural design for the users of the spaces.
Sure, the Census Bureau may have accurate statistics, but it says nothing for the quality of the urban fabric. Slums in India and Brazil are really dense; it doesn't mean they're any good.
Yeah. Density alone is not the answer. Native American tribes were very low density, but also very sustainable. Everyone seems to just jump on the density idea as if it is a proven fix to all of societies problems. I did my thesis on this. Came up with an equation that weighed density against other factors such as local climate, food production, energy, etc. An attempt to find a balanced zoning approach.
This data might be useful for larger infrastructure such as food delivery, water and sewage system, but this is really oversimplified.
The thing is that the densest part of New York (Chinatown) is ridiculously high density. The Central Park is a giant empty space. While LA is distributed a lot more evenly.
This data is useless without further analysis.We need Hans Rosling!
haha, did they average in upstate NY or something?
Bad measure of density. Should use weighted average density. See Ryan Avent:
http://www.ryanavent.com/blog/?p=834
its because new york has lots of low density suburbs offsetting Manhattan and LA is more even over all.
it's pretty old news actually. nice to see our prejudices and preconceptions highlighted so clearly however.
They added in Jersey.
Enough said.
Census: LA is the nation's densest urban area, while New York ranks 5th
5th? wtf
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