How dense is your city?
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How dense is your city?
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#2This is really great. I want to review this for everywhere I've been, because the variation in how gov'ts do statistics is hiding so much of what's actually going on there.
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#3Accompanying tweet thread: https://twitter.com/Jonathan_Nolan_/status/17641429989949484...
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#5For those who liked this, I frequently come back to this visual which displays the distribution within a city in an arguably more visually appealing format:
https://www.vox.com/2015/1/2/7480993/population-density-visu...
It helps explain the low-density feel that a city like London has compared to most large non-European cities.
The original source is the third panel here: https://issuu.com/lsecities/docs/hongkong2011newspaper/9
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#6Interesting, NYC vs Tokyo. NYC is winning up until 20km. We need higher density queens, Brooklyn, Staten Island and Jersey.
I don't think this takes into account water around cities. For NYC harbour south of downtown pull us down?
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#8Interesting, NYC vs Tokyo. NYC is winning up until 20km. We need higher density queens, Brooklyn, Staten Island and Jersey. I don't think this takes into account water around cities. For NYC harbour south of downtown pull us down?
Is higher density “winning?”
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It takes a lot of resources to provide modern amenities like clean water, sanitary sewers, electricity, gas, telecom lines, roads, etc. Economies of scale make it cheaper to provide these things if people live closer together.
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#10Interesting, NYC vs Tokyo. NYC is winning up until 20km. We need higher density queens, Brooklyn, Staten Island and Jersey. I don't think this takes into account water around cities. For NYC harbour south of downtown pull us down?
Is higher density “winning?”
I'd say that density is generally a good thing, IMO. The more people live in a place, generally access to things is more convenient, commutes are shorter, etc. Low density generally means sprawl.