Giant, flat, congested heat grids (metro area, areas, cities)

[nep321]

List any metropolitan areas that fit the description of "giant, flat, congested heat grid." Let me break it down by each word as follows:

Giant - the metro area must be at least 2 million in population

Flat - the metro area must be mostly flat

Congested - there must be heavy traffic, congestion, and high density population

Heat - At least half of the year, the area must be HOT

Grid - In general, the metro area must be composed of a grid style of roads

So, which metro areas would quality for this description, in your opinion? Here is my take:

(1) Southeast FL

(2) Phoenix

(3) Houston

(4) Dallas

(5) Los Angeles

(6) Las Vegas

[annie_himself]

Phoenix, LA, and Vegas are flat?

In before thread closes..

[Champ le monstre du lac]

Originally Posted by annie_himself

Phoenix, LA, and Vegas are flat?

In before thread closes..

Phoenix has some mountains around sure, but the valley in which most of the city is built in is pretty flat terrain.

[Johnbiggs]

LA isn't flat at all.

[nep321]

Originally Posted by annie_himself

Phoenix, LA, and Vegas are flat?

In before thread closes..

The majority of the PHX metro area is flat.

[Poquoson7]

LA's San Fernando Valley and South Bay area are indeed flat and cover a lot of territory.

[Natural510]

Originally Posted by Poquoson7

LA's San Fernando Valley and South Bay area are indeed flat and cover a lot of territory.

It still has a lot of hills, and it's not HOT. Unless you consider 78 degrees HOT.

[polo89]

No matter how flat the valley/basins of certain cities are, the fact that those cities have Hills and Mountains running through or around them in the city-limits, or metro areas, should disqualify them. There are other cities in the US that are TRULY flat, in the sense that there are no Hills over 200ft anywhere in the metro. LV, Phoenix, LA, are too close to mountains terrain, to be considered "flat" in the same way Miami truly is. Especially a city like LA that actually has Mountains running through, and biseccting the geographic core of the County in Half. And plus, there's plenty of foothill areas in LA that reach 200+ feet in elevation, such as Baldwin Hills, View Park, Windsor Hills, City Terrrace in East LA, the Hollywood Hills, Beverly Hills, etc. Houston and Dallas are close, but they actually can get rather frigid in the winter. The only city that should truly be on this list is Miami.

[kyle19125]

Originally Posted by nep321

List any metropolitan areas that fit the description of "giant, flat, congested heat grid." Let me break it down by each word as follows:

Giant - the metro area must be at least 2 million in population

Flat - the metro area must be mostly flat

Congested - there must be heavy traffic, congestion, and high density population

Heat - At least half of the year, the area must be HOT

Grid - In general, the metro area must be composed of a grid style of roads

So, which metro areas would quality for this description, in your opinion? Here is my take:

(1) Southeast FL

(2) Phoenix

(3) Houston

(4) Dallas

(5) Los Angeles

(6) Las Vegas

South Florida overwhelmingly isn't set up on a grid system.

[Iconographer]

Originally Posted by kyle19125

South Florida overwhelmingly isn't set up on a grid system.

Checked out a map of Miami/Fort Lauderdale lately? There's a reason the streets are numbered.
St. Petersburg fits the criteria as well.