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Originally Posted by iheartthed
Canadian cities aren't more dense than their American equivalents. Toronto is most analogous to Chicago and they are at just about the same density. Montreal and Boston seem like fair comparisons, and same there too.
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That may be true with city propers, transit users frequently cross municipal boundaries. If you compare urban areas, Chicago has 8,671,746 people living at or above the minimum density threshold to be considered urban with an average density of 1,432.1/km2, while Toronto the 5,647,656 people meeting that threshold have a density of 3,087.8/km2. Similarly with Montreal, the urban 3,675,219 people at a density of 2,658.4/km2 while Boston has 4,382,009 at 1,021.8/km2. In both cases the US urban areas have less than 1/2 the density. Yes Canada has slightly stricter criteria for places to qualify as urban, but as you can see the metro areas didn't really loose any greater proportion of their population because if it.
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