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Vote or nominate the cities across the U.S. that you consider as the country's true urban cities. By the way, a true urban cities has dense, walkable neighbohoods, good public transportation, a great downtown, good park system, and other viable qualities for a pedestrial culture.
If you mean true American Urban Cities according to urban Density here is a list , all of the other stuff is totally subjective.....and to who's standards.
1.NYC 27,083 sq/mile
2.Jersey City NJ 16,045 sq/mile
3.San Francisco CA 15,834 sq/mile
4.Chicago 12,470 sq/mile
5.Santa Ana CA 12,453 sq/mile
6.Boston 12,327 sq/mile
7.Miami FL 11,554 sq/mile
8.Newark NJ 11,400 sq/mile
9.Long Beach CA 9,199 sq/mile
10.Washington DC 9,015 sq/mile
11.Los Angeles CA 8,205 sq/mile
12.Baltimore MD 8,058 sq/mile
13.Oakland CA 7,126 sq/mile
14.Minneapolis 7,067 sq/mile
15.Seattle Washington 6,901 sq/mile
16.Detroit MI 6,850 sq/mile
17.Anaheim CA 6,702 sq/mile
18.Milwaukee WI 6,214 sq/mile
19.Cleveland OH 6,166 sq/mile
20. St. Louis 5,716 sq/mile
If you mean true American Urban Cities according to urban Density here is a list , all of the other stuff is totally subjective.....and to who's standards.
1.NYC 27,083 sq/mile
2.Jersey City NJ 16,045 sq/mile
3.San Francisco CA 15,834 sq/mile
4.Chicago 12,470 sq/mile
5.Santa Ana CA 12,453 sq/mile
6.Boston 12,327 sq/mile
7.Miami FL 11,554 sq/mile
8.Newark NJ 11,400 sq/mile
9.Long Beach CA 9,199 sq/mile
10.Washington DC 9,015 sq/mile
11.Los Angeles CA 8,205 sq/mile
12.Baltimore MD 8,058 sq/mile
13.Oakland CA 7,126 sq/mile
14.Minneapolis 7,067 sq/mile
15.Seattle Washington 6,901 sq/mile
16.Detroit MI 6,850 sq/mile
17.Anaheim CA 6,702 sq/mile
18.Milwaukee WI 6,214 sq/mile
19.Cleveland OH 6,166 sq/mile
20. St. Louis 5,716 sq/mile
That's subjective too...at least if your using those numbers to define a truly urban city.
My vote went for NYC, LA, Chicago, Philly, Boston, D.C., Atlanta, Dallas, Houston, Miami, S.F., and Seattle. I picked those based on the fact that they are all world class cities. It was nice to see Savannah, GA on there, but realistically it wouldn't be considered urban per se.
Savannah is urban in the sense that it is somewhat of a planned city. More walkable than Atlanta. Actually, most cities are more walkable than Atlanta. Savannah is what you would call old urban. The same with New Orleans Charleston, Washington DC, Baltimore, Philadelphia, New York, and Boston. Middle urban would be cities like Chicago, Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, San Francisco, St. Louis, Cleveland, Omaha. New urban would be Seattle, Portland, Denver, Galveston, etc.
So far as population density is a good indicator of urbanity, DC, Philly, and Boston are all more urban than L.A. While L.A.'s 8,205 people/sq. mile pop. density is pretty urban in its own right, you shouldn't discount the fact that the other three aforementioned cities beat L.A. by around 1,000 people/sq. mile or more.
As far as Density is concern Boston and Washington DC are two cities that has more Density or more people per square mile than Los Angeles but philadephlia does not Philadelphia Density is 4,240 or somewhere in that vinicity almost half of what Los Angeles 8,305 sq/mile is.
Last edited by Howest2008; 02-18-2008 at 01:14 PM..
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As far as Density is concern Boston and Washington DC are two cities that has more Density or more people per square mile than Los Angeles but philadephlia does not Philadelphia Density is 4,240 or somewhere in that vinicity almost half of what Los Angeles 8,305 sq/mile is.
Are we going to keep citing arbitrary population density figures?
As far as Density is concern Boston and Washington DC are two cities that has more Density or more people per square mile than Los Angeles but philadephlia does not Philadelphia Density is 4,240 or somewhere in that vinicity almost half of what Los Angeles 8,305 sq/mile is.
Completely incorrect. Philadelphia is easily in the top 10 ten cities in the U.S. for density at 10,882.8 people/sq. mile. The 4,201 figure is people/sq. KILOMETER. Huge difference:
lousville isnt that urban of a city ive been there many times. Plus the population density is very low
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If you mean true American Urban Cities according to urban Density here is a list , all of the other stuff is totally subjective.....and to who's standards.
