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I am not disagreeing that Miami metro is dense for the south, but to say it's denser than LA is another thing.
I'm not really sure it's a fair comparison, since metro areas are based on counties there's a whole bunch of uninhabitable swamp that's tacked onto Miami metros land size. I think a more fair comparison is urban area, in which LA is still way more dense, it might be the most dense urban area in the country. Miami's UA is still impressively dense though, not just by southern standards.
The Texas urban areas are just about half way in between Miami and Atlanta in density, and as Houston fills in it will be more like the former. New Orleans has just 900 fewer ppsm.
Good list but H-town sprawls all the way to Galveston almost non-stop. Also It would more like Conroe to Galveston 90 miles. Also if you want to stretch it The southern part of Galveston Island to Panorama Village, Texas 115 miles. Also if you truly want to go as far east to as far west, it is Rosenberg to Galveston roughly 75 miles. or Maybe Mont Belvieu to Katy/Rosenberg/
Also NYC East to West at the least is 100 miles. (Shirley, NY to Mount Olive Township, NJ)
Branford, Conneticut to Tom's River, New Jersey is 150 miles.
Good list but H-town sprawls all the way to Galveston almost non-stop. Also It would more like Conroe to Galveston 90 miles. Also if you want to stretch it The southern part of Galveston Island to Panorama Village, Texas 115 miles. Also if you truly want to go as far east to as far west, it is Rosenberg to Galveston roughly 75 miles. or Maybe Mont Belvieu to Katy/Rosenberg/
Also NYC East to West at the least is 100 miles. (Shirley, NY to Mount Olive Township, NJ)
Branford, Conneticut to Tom's River, New Jersey is 150 miles.
Conroe and Galveston are only part of the metro area, though; not the urban area, so they don't qualify as "the city".
Greater Miami has plenty of sprawl, but Miamis' city limits might be the least sprawling large city in the South. The city is only 35sq. miles, and most neighborhoods in the city are dense.
I think that people get confused by how sprawl is measured. Certainly greater Miami is developed well beyond its tiny city limits but it eats less land per person than many other metros. This is why it's considered less sprawled. The reality is that greater Miami is bound on its east by the ocean and on its west by the Everglades and other protected wetlands. This keeps the metro area population growing more within its current footprint than the typical metro pattern that just keeps spreading out in all directions.
Most cities that have "grown up" post WWII have typically sprawled the most because they were built almost exclusively on the automobile development model. Where water is plentiful and the land generally flat or manageable, the development model was typically even more sprawled because there are usually larger single family lots, more tree buffers, etc. It's only after the resulting traffic chokes the quality of life in these metros do they start to look inward to more density and less sprawl. Today, this aligns perfectly with the increased desire by many for walkable neighborhoods, urban renewal and shorter commutes.
This seems like a list of least and most sprawling cities rather than metros
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