10 least sprawling US Cities (metro 1+ mil) (homes, wealthy, suburbs)
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The city of Pittsburgh is rather dense and one the most urban in the country, but unfortunately we have a lot of suburban sprawl. When you say least sprawling, are you referring to contemporary growth?
1. NYC
2. LA
3. San Francisco
4. Miami
5. New Orleans
6. Portland
7. San Antonio
8. Louisville
9. Sacramento
10. Pittsburgh
Are you kidding me??? NYC and LA the top two LEAST sprawling cities with populations of under one million?!?!? LA is one of the most massively sprawling cities in the country. And NYC??? The reason it doesn't appear sprawling compared to, say, Phoenix is because it is not flat and treeless where you can see the sprawl before your eyes. NYC has a massive suburban area and you don't see cookie cutter tract homes in the "inner suburban" areas such as Westchester county because those areas are way too wealthy and old. But go out forty miles from NYC and you can see the same tract homes you find anywhere else. Same goes for No. 3 on your list. SF has a fantastic downtown. Fantastic. But go outside the city into the larger Bay Area and you have plenty of sprawl, with $1 million dollar tract homes spaced 6 feet from one another.
I think most cities are pretty sprawling in the areas that have developed in the last 50 years. The difference between "non-sprawling cities" and "sprawling cities" in general is the more compact cities were much larger in 1950 than the less compact cities. The sprawling areas in most cities aren't dramatically different from one another in general characteristics however, regardless how compact the central city and/or close-by suburbs are or not.
Id say :
1) NYC
2) Chicago
3) San Francisco
4) Miami I guess
From there its a toss up
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