Atlanta 2020 Census

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Originally Posted by newuserbuckhead

Chicago is the second most densely built city in the country, only behind NYC. I haven't been there yet, but I've done enough reading and watched enough videos on the city to understand the true historic rivalry between Chi and NYC when the skyscraper was first built.

On the one hand, I hate when Youtubers and publications use city populations vs metro populations to compare. Jacksonville and San Antonia are literally larger city populations than Atlanta, but no one would actually say those two cities are larger than Atlanta. On the other hand, using only core city areas to compare is often nice; unless the core city has annexed most of its metro (cough Jax and SanAn)



Since I literally said Metro Atlanta was bigger than Seattle and Boston, and soon to be bigger than Philly, not sure what your point is?

Atlanta, to me, feels significantly larger than Houston, and a good deal bigger than Dallas. The city feeling is bigger here than either of those two cities, but yes, their metros are larger.

When you're walking around Seattle, Boston, or Phily, those cities built up area and urban feel seems to go on for miles with little to no break in the "urbanity" of the city. While Atlanta, it's very disjointed. There are pockets of great urban fabric, but then wide swaths of empty, or large noticeable pockets of empty. Parking lots in downtown or midtown, or literally empty spaces inside the beltline.

Boston and Philly yes but I didn't get that feeling in Seattle. I traveled to Seattle not too long ago and there were a lot more surface parking lots than I thought there would be. It feels smaller than Atlanta.