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Was looking at some video clips on You-tube of Athens Greece and a few taken from helicopter tours and it looked like a HUGE city. From what I've read the whole metro area is only four million...that's much smaller than Atlanta Georgia but to me Athens looked much bigger than say Chicago. Anyway it sure looks like it has much more than four million. Just doesn't make sense or maybe it's not as big as it looks. Anyone know about this? Thanks.
Athens is much more compact than an American city like Chicago. The urban area mostly consists in apartment buildings, whithout much single family housing apart from the northern suburbs. The dense area is about 10 miles across, bigger than most cities of its size. It gives Athens this "endless apartment sea of apartment buildings" look: http://www.grimble.de/Snapshots/athens2004/IMGP4698.JPG
Yes, Athens is very compact with endless multi story buildings that can be called apartments but are mostly privately owned (condos). Athens city proper is not that big. If you're comparing the metro areas, Chicago is much bigger stretching far into the endless flatlands of the Tri-State areas.
Well from the videos I watched on you-tube from building rooftops to helicopter tours over Athens it looked more spread out than Chicago but not as many tall buildings...just had a very impressive size horizonally. Maybe Chicago wasn't right but it does look much bigger than Atlanta which has six million people...just assumed Athens had more people like maybe 10 million or so. I'm also thinking camera's and video's can be misleading too. It's "looks" close to the size of Buenos Aires.
Well from the videos I watched on you-tube from building rooftops to helicopter tours over Athens it looked more spread out than Chicago but not as many tall buildings...just had a very impressive size horizonally. Maybe Chicago wasn't right but it does look much bigger than Atlanta which has six million people...just assumed Athens had more people like maybe 10 million or so. I'm also thinking camera's and video's can be misleading too. It's "looks" close to the size of Buenos Aires.
The entire nation of Greece only has 10.8 million people, so it's just how the city was designed that's deceiving.
Yeah, the sprawl in Athens is really impressive, also because it looks very uniform and monotonous -- the same kind of apartment buildings of the same colour for many kilometers.
Well either way it looks like a city I could I would be happy to live in and even more than that is CAIRO. It is one of my top five favorites...right now I'd say it is number one. The architecture really gets me and was drooling and the sights of the streets, store fronts, shops and all not to mention it's impressive size....I'd be a kid in a candy store there. Don't know if I'll ever get to any of these cities so I get on you-tube and watch videos there...sort of a virtual globe trotter.
How does Athens look much bigger than Chicago? In area?
yes, area. The urban sprawl of the Chicagoland area is huge
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