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Old 03-08-2011, 10:13 AM
 
Location: Seattle Area
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What would be your cities' density if you could put 47 sq miles anywhere in your city?
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Old 03-08-2011, 10:18 AM
 
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Are these guesstimates?
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Old 03-08-2011, 10:20 AM
 
Location: Los Altos Hills, CA
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Actually a better question would be what would your city's population be if it had 17,000 people per square mile. Dallas for example, would have 4,811,000 people.

Every major city would have a huge increase except NYC itself, which would actually decline since its a bit more dense than SF to begin with(of course).
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Old 03-08-2011, 10:24 AM
 
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Actually a better question would be what would your city's population be if it had 17,000 people per square mile. Dallas for example, would have 4,811,000 people.

Every major city would have a huge increase except NYC itself, which would actually decline since its a bit more dense than SF to begin with(of course).
Nice try How about we do your question with Hoboken, Union City, Huntington Park, or Maywood?
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Old 03-08-2011, 10:32 AM
 
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about 20,000
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Old 03-08-2011, 10:35 AM
 
Location: So California
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Thats a retarded question. It has no basis in any type of logical comparison.
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Old 03-08-2011, 10:40 AM
 
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Thats a retarded question. It has no basis in any type of logical comparison.
How is comparing densities within a set amount of land not a reasonable comparison?
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Old 03-08-2011, 10:50 AM
 
Location: St Paul, MN - NJ's Gold Coast
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That's really a difficult task to do. How is anybody going to find a source that will allow them to square off a certain 47 square miles of their city and to then come up with an accurate population density figure? I guarantee you NYC will be the only one with a higher Pop density.

Luckily, I know Hudson County NJ is literally 47 square miles. That has a population density of 13,044. Mind you, this county is home to the densest cities iin the nation (Union city, Hoboken, West New York, Guttenberg etc- And Jersey city is the 3rd densest major city after NYC & SF) and even with these claims, SF comes still beats out HC in terms of Pop Density.. So you're really not going to find much else close to SF's 17,462 PPSM other than Boston/Hudson County.
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Old 03-08-2011, 10:50 AM
 
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Nice try How about we do your question with Hoboken, Union City, Huntington Park, or Maywood?
I said MAJOR cities.

Houston would have 11,000,000 people. God Gawd.
Los Angeles would have 7,500,000 people.
Phoenix would have 8,000,000 people.
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Old 03-08-2011, 10:53 AM
 
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Houston:

77005- 4.0 sq miles- 6500ppsm-
77006- 2.2 sq miles-10,000ppsm-
77019- 3.0sq miles- 6000ppsm-
77098- 2.0sq miles- 7800ppsm-
77027- 3.5sq miles- 5000ppsm-
77056- 3.5sq miles- 5000ppsm-
77057- 4.5sq miles- 9200ppsm-
77063- 4.5sq miles- 7100ppsm-
77081- 3.2sq miles- 18,000ppsm-
77036- 7.6sq miles- 13,000ppsm-
77074- 5.2sq miles- 8600ppsm-
77025- 4.5sq miles- 6100ppsm-
77096- 6.0sq miles- 6500ppsm
77071- 4.4sq miles- 6500ppsm-
77031- 3.2sq miles- 6000ppsm
77099- 6.2sq miles- 8000ppsm
77042- 6.2 sq miles- 6700ppsm
77072- 7.5sq miles- 8000ppsm

total= 81.2 sq miles
Ave density= 8000ppsm

I made it bigger than I expected. I measured from Montrose going west.

Eliminating the inner loop part you get about 10,000 ppsm

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