I'd say that those inner-city density graphs confirm the position advocated in the thread title. That is, for the inner cities.
Having travelled extensively in Germany (as well as of course, in Canada), our three biggest cities (Toronto, Montreal, Vancouver) certainly hold their own on inner-city density, relative to Germany's three biggest cities.
I do find that medium and small cities in Germany are leagues more dense than their most of their Canadian counterparts. Our smaller cities are sprawling empires of stroads and banal big box barf.
German cities were obliterated in WW2, and many English cities had sections laid to waste by the Luftwaffe. I wonder if that is the primary reason for the relatively low inner city densities of Germany and the UK (vis-a-vis the rest of Europe)?
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