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and to his point - urban = walking to your destination w/o getting run over by traffic.
possible depending on where you live and work. definitely know people who are or basically live carless existences in various parts of the city (mostly around downtown, the westside, long beach or pasadena-ish)
For a city that has had population decline since 1950 I think that is something to brag about. You have to understand that Philly's city limits are small compared to Los Angeles and if Philly had about same city limits as Los Angeles, Philly would have a population of almost 3 million people(almost as large as Los Angeles 3.7 million).
The Philly area is a lot larger than what most people give it credit for.
So it breaks down like this. At 50 sq miles surrounding their CBDs, everyone(minus D.C.) is almost even in density. L.A. might actually have a slight edge, but pretty close, all of them. At 100 miles, it's safe to say L.A. is ahead. At 150, no question.
LA does not have a higher density than Philly over 100 miles. I don't think LA has a higher density than Philly over 60 or 70 miles. Maybe between 15 and 50 miles LA might have a slight edge but other than that Philly in general has a higher density level than Los Angeles.
If LA is so great, btw, why can't it just remain as is? Why is there this urgency to radically change the design of the city (road diets, mixed use, etc.).
L.A. is going back to its roots, so to speak. The Pacific Electric red cars built SoCal - not the freeways. This embracing of transit is a great thing, imo.
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