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Originally Posted by iheartthed
My two takeaways: - If any city really deserves to be in the "big urban" conversation based off of density numbers, it's Miami.
- Staten Island is a bigger drag on NYC's density numbers than the mountains are on L.A.'s.
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First, Miami is but 36 square miles and 442,000 people. Disagreed that it is a "big" urban city either by land area or by population.
Second, New York City is the nation's most extreme outlier in terms of population and density. No other city in the US even comes close. Thus, I disagree that it should be the standard by which all other US cities are judged. Ranking cities by percentage of NYC's density seems like a gratuitous move by a New York homer. Every other US city will necessarily be significantly "deficient."