New York metro vs. Miami metro vs. Los Angeles metro (America, states)
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Mountains don't just suddenly appear. You don't go from flat land to high mountains. They call them the foothills of mountains and both NY and NJ contain areas that are the foothills to these mountains.
The Hudson Valley Region of Putnam County, which is about 50 miles from NYC (the Bronx) is probably the closest foothills. This is where West Point and the Foundry is/was. West Point was not built on flat land. This area is very "hilly" and you can see the Hudson River below. Very beautifiul, and very expensive, area. I once worked for an execuitve who live in Croton and took Metro North into Manhattan every day. Again, it's not 100 miles from NYC and you can certainly say the mountains start in this area.
The Poconos also aren't just in Pa. The foothills start in New Jersey. I don't know if this area of NJ is 100 miles from NYC, but I doubt it. Maybe 50? Again, my husband has worked with people in NYC who commuted from this area of NJ, or even just over the border in Pal.
Mountains don't just suddenly appear. You don't go from flat land to high mountains. They call them the foothills of mountains and both NY and NJ contain areas that are the foothills to these mountains.
The Hudson Valley Region of Putnam County, which is about 50 miles from NYC (the Bronx) is probably the closest foothills. This is where West Point and the Foundry is/was. West Point was not built on flat land. This area is very "hilly" and you can see the Hudson River below. Very beautifiul, and very expensive, area. I once worked for an execuitve who live in Croton and took Metro North into Manhattan every day. Again, it's not 100 miles from NYC and you can certainly say the mountains start in this area.
The Poconos also aren't just in Pa. The foothills start in New Jersey. I don't know if this area of NJ is 100 miles from NYC, but I doubt it. Maybe 50? Again, my husband has worked with people in NYC who commuted from this area of NJ, or even just over the border in Pal.
I was talking about the fact that there are no mountains in the NYC metro area.
The Catskills are closer to Albany than to NYC!
And foothills are not mountains.
BTW, in Wyoming, you can go from flatlands to high mountains... the Grand Teton mountain range juts up from the flatlands.
Actually, it is statistically shown that Los Angeles is the densest urban area in the US by a margin of 2,000 ppsm over NYC urban area.
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For example LAs urban area is 4319.9 sq mi with only a density 7068.3.
That is exactly why Los Angeles is dense because it has a significantly smaller urban area than NYC by size.
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The more land you add to the equation the less the density appears. Because all of the extra land that is added to it even though most of the people dont live on that. NYCs urban area is 2x the size at 8683.2sq mi maintaining a density of 5309.3 but if we take away 4000sq mi to compare to LA the density would be much higher. The topic is Metro and the Metro of NYC is still more dense.
There is no reason to add more land to the Los Angeles urban area because 4,300 sq mi is the entire urban area already. New York is a much larger build up area so you include more. The criteria for including urban area goes by a certain minimum density. Once the build up area has a lower density than the minimum density, then it is not included into the urban area. Both NY's and LA's urban areas follow the same criteria.
It would also be disproportionate to include only 4,300 sq miles of NY's urban area cuz that would be cheating since NY has more than that. NYC larger so you have to adjust that as well.
What exactly is included in "LA urban area"? Because if it includes ALL of Kern County that is just ridiculous, because that place is practically devoid of human life. If Kern county is included, it should be dropped and then LA's density would really go up a lot.
What exactly is included in "LA urban area"? Because if it includes ALL of Kern County that is just ridiculous, because that place is practically devoid of human life. If Kern county is included, it should be dropped and then LA's density would really go up a lot.
The Los Angeles CMSA includes all of Kern County because it is based on commuting patterns. The Los Angeles urban area includes all the areas that achieve the minimum density required, so if Kern County is devoid of human life then it most certainly isn't a part of the urban area.
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