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Something is wrong with your list. Boston has less than 650,000 people. There aren't even close to 12 million in the whole state.
Boston has only 650k people in the city proper but like 5 million or 6 million in Boston metro. The traffic was horrrrrrible if you ever had to get to RI, CT, NH or even from like Wellesley to the North Shore. Boston seems really dense and over populated it seemed like way more than 650k and then you have all the college aged kids that move here from all over the world. Boston still is a really urban dense over populated Metro area
Boston has only 650k people in the city proper but like 5 million or 6 million in Boston metro. The traffic was horrrrrrible if you ever had to get to RI, CT, NH or even from like Wellesley to the North Shore. Boston seems really dense and over populated it seemed like way more than 650k and then you have all the college aged kids that move here from all over the world. Boston still is a really urban dense over populated Metro area
Outside of the SR-128/I-95 Boston doesn't feel dense at all, those outside barely feel like they add to the size of the city. It always felt not that big but dense (in the center) to me.
Actually, the Ku Area has a population of 8.5 million, spread over 240 sq miles. That comes out to around 35,000ppsm. Brooklyn-level density.
Outside of peak census tracts, Tokyo is significantly denser overall. Unless you think 35,000ppsm is somehow lower than 27,000. .
Keep in mind that the area you carved out for Tokyo doesn't include any parks (besides the Imperial Palace and a couple of minor parks). And the NYC area you're comparing to consists of like 1/4 of uninhabitable parkland. In reality, like I mentioned before, outside the Yamanote loop Tokyo feels like Queens at street level. And even inside the loop Tokyo doesn't have long stretches of urbanity like Manhattan, its more like separate hubs around train stations. Literally 3 blocks away from Shibuya it gets pretty dead as far as pedestrian activity, especially when you compare it to Manhattan.
Umm, I do believe those numbers are per square mile, aka equal sized land mass (1 square mile)...
Not equal footprint though. For example, Boston density per square mile would drop in half if you assign the same footprint as NYC. Those numbers would only work if city limits were exactly the same size.
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