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Fact remains, L.A. is a medium-sized city that has a gigantic suburb withing city limits with an even bigger ego. Toronto is a world-class urban metropolis that truly makes L.A. look like a shrimp.
Nothing you posted was factual. On the contrary, what you posted is so far removed from the facts, it's frightening.
Toronto Metro: 5 million people, 2750 square miles
Los Angeles: Roughly 7.5 million people, 750 in square miles
Rational poster: "Interesting. Los Angeles is clearly the larger, denser metropolitan area."
Irrational poster: "LA is a big suburb, I don't care about facts and stuff. You guys don't have a subway. It doesn't feel right. Toronto is more urban. I'm scared of cars!"
The Toronto region's urbanized area is actually slightly more dense than the urbanized area of the Los Angeles area. The two city's entire urbanized areas are actually number one and two in the U.S. and Canada for overall density.
Here's a selection of new Toronto pics by a photographer named Flar on Skyscraperpage. As you can see, the city is very dense with highrise development way out into the outer boroughs.
The Toronto region's urbanized area is actually slightly more dense than the urbanized area of the Los Angeles area. The two city's entire urbanized areas are actually number one and two in the U.S. and Canada for overall density.
I'm curious as to how dense Toronto's inner core is. Keep in mind that while it's possible to find 750 square miles with 10,000+ psm in Greater Los Angeles, the areas around DTLA (East, Central and South LA; well over 100 square miles) are closer to 15,000-16,000 psm on average. There are tracts in the 90,000 range (Koreatown).
Then of course, LA remains uniformly dense for hundreds upon hundreds of square miles in every possible direction, even with the mountain range messing with the numbers. Even if Toronto is more dense at the top, it isn't going to hang with LA for the long haul, and that IMO, is why LA is the more urban "mega-city" in this discussion.
It's not like LA is a slouch in that department. There are probably more foreign born residents in Greater Los Angeles than there are people in Toronto.
los angeles' biggest contribution to popular culture is the porn industry. that's what people want. Movies and tv shows produced in L.A. are exactly the kind of formulaic driivel that destroys people's minds. that's why most of my friends have stopped watching hollywood films and so-called tv shows. on the other hand I will always respect the cultural significance of the porn industry gone wild.
Toronto's inner core has an overall density of about 20,000 psm, with some census tracts over 150,000 psm. Toronto, like L.A., maintains fairly high densities far out into its urbanized area, it doesn't really peter out much at all. As I mentioned above, it's neck and neck with L.A. for overall density of its entire urbanized area.
Here's another pic by Flar showing Mississauga, and outer suburb approx. 30km west of downtown Toronto. The low density office area in the immediate foreground is right outside Pearson International Airport.
los angeles' biggest contribution to popular culture is the porn industry. that's what people want. Movies and tv shows produced in L.A. are exactly the kind offormulaic driivel that destroys people's minds.that's why most of my friends have stopped watching hollywood films and so-called tv shows. on the other hand I will always respect the cultural significance of the porn industry gone wild.
I totally believe that. I also believe in Santa Claus.
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