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According to the latest figures.We may finally get to put to rest the argument between which of these cities are more dense.The winner apparently by a somewhat considerable margin is Atlanta(after Miami).This is why I have always felt Atlanta to be more "urban"..
Oh lord this is about to be a cute thread within about 8 hours.. I think I may stay away from this one.. Your know how this gets with the Texans and Georgians...
There are some ****-stirrers on this forum. In one breath they are defending Atlanta's sprawllike character and in the next they are advocating its density. You can't have it both ways. No wonder American politics are so bewildering to us British.
Great. Anyways, city vs city is pointless, considering all have vast differences in the city limits.
Houston 602 sq miles, Dallas 385 sq miles, and Atlanta 132 sq miles, comparing their city densities wouldn't be fair, which would be expected of you, since that's where Atlanta comes out of top. And I would think that Houston's inner 132 sq miles are denser than Atlanta, and perhaps the same for Dallas(?)
A far better comparison would be Urban Area densities:
Since that will only take into account the true urban areas, and we will see who is truly more dense.
And so the Atlanta propaganda machine is defeated soundly again. Twisting facts to make Atlanta "appear" better. George Orwell eat your heart out.
Atlanta is shown to actually be less dense than the other Sunbelt cities. The illusion continues to fade away.
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Great. Anyways, city vs city is pointless, considering all have vast differences in the city limits.
Houston 602 sq miles, Dallas 385 sq miles, and Atlanta 132 sq miles, comparing their city densities wouldn't be fair, which would be expected of you, since that's where Atlanta comes out of top. And I would think that Houston's inner 132 sq miles are denser than Atlanta, and perhaps the same for Dallas(?)
A far better comparison would be Urban Area densities:
Since that will only take into account the true urban areas, and we will see who is truly more dense.
Atlanta has a couple of neighborhoods that are pretty good, though not cohesive. Outside of the these area it mostly seems very non dense (with the exceptions of small peripheral concentrations) - on the whole Houston actually seems to have the greatest continuity of the this semi dense development, esp the inner loop, followed by Dallas
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And so the Atlanta propaganda machine is defeated soundly again. Twisting facts to make Atlanta "appear" better. George Orwell eat your heart out.
Atlanta is shown to actually be less dense than the other Sunbelt cities. The illusion continues to fade away.
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Seek help removing the word Atlanta from your brain. It obviously does serious harm to your well being and reason.
On topic part of this post:
I'm not one that subscribes overall population density as the deciding factor of whether of or not a place is "more urban". As others have pointed out, Atlanta has a much smaller land area than Houston or Dallas so it will have a higher population density. Aside from that, Atlanta does have far more high density developments in the form of condo towers and midrises and a Metro, but they're all pretty urban. Urbanity takes on many different forms.
Great. Anyways, city vs city is pointless, considering all have vast differences in the city limits.
Houston 602 sq miles, Dallas 385 sq miles, and Atlanta 132 sq miles, comparing their city densities wouldn't be fair, which would be expected of you, since that's where Atlanta comes out of top. And I would think that Houston's inner 132 sq miles are denser than Atlanta, and perhaps the same for Dallas(?)
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I believe the population of the 95 sq miles of the inner loop in Houston is around 560,000 which would put it 5,894 people per sq mile.
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Let's see we just need AlGreen, jluke, chidalatl, kdogg817, and scarface713; then we can get this party started.
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