Quote:
Originally Posted by dktshb
Um you could not be more wrong. Los Angeles does not have low density. It is almost triple that of Houston and is actually right up there as one of America's densest cities. Certainly the densest metropolitan area in the county. It is a City of 502 sq. miles, which is a very large area to keep a high density. Wikipedia put the density of Los Angeles at 8,483 and Seattle, which you consider a high density city, at 8,398.
http://worldpopulationreview.com/us-cities/los-angeles-population/ |
Yup, Los Angeles is indeed more densely populated than I thought. I stand corrected. I guess I still picture LA as the land of freeways, linking together one suburban-like housing development after another. But, apparently, that's a misconception. I'll admit I don't know Los Angeles and have never visited, even though I lived in California—the Bay Area—for 10 years.
Los Angeles is a very large city in terms of area, as you point out. The population is truly enormous, now about 4,000,000 (2016 est./Wikipedia), giving the city some meaningful density, unlike Houston or Atlanta. At the same time, if LA had the same density as Boston, its population would be nearly 7,000,000 (502.76 sq mile x 13,903 [2016 est./Wiki] = 6,989,872).
Threaded Mode