I'm not saying Atlanta is densely settled, obviously it's not, similar to most comparable sunbelt metros. I'm saying that looking at Atlanta's roughly 500,000 population in its city limits is kind of silly given that so many comparatively sized metros have far larger core city land area: square miles:
San Fran: 47
Miami: 55
DC: 68
Boston: 90
Atlanta: 134
Philly: 141
Detroit: 143
Chicago: 234
New York: 305
Dallas: 386
LA: 503
Phoenix: 517
Houston: 627
If Atlanta were "scaled up" to many of these other city sizes it would be over a million in short order. Among Atlanta's "peer" sunbelt metros, it's smallest, with the notable exception of Miami, which has a similar "small" core city population.
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