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London itself clearly does not, but its 'metropolitan area' does. Its metro area is defined as London + the Home Counties (Berkshire, Buckinghamshire, Surrey, Essex etc).
Edit: according to Eurostar, the London metro area has 13,614,409 people, not 15.5 million.
I always felt Chicago was kind of small
to be the third biggest city in the United
States of America. Atleast the city proper
is. It's like you have these manhattan like
buildings, but only for a few miles along
the lake and these buildings stretch no
further west than maybe 10 miles despite
all that flat land to play with. Just my opinion
though.
I actually feel that cities that sprawl appear bigger. London in my opinion actually appears bigger than Seoul despite having at least 10 million less people. Simply because it takes longer to get out of ( an effect that would only be multiplied further if you include the Home Counties ) So of the cities on the list that I would find the smallest i would go for the most dense like Dhaka, or Mumbai.
Last edited by danielsa1775; 02-01-2014 at 05:40 AM..
Well its subjective if you feel a city you've been to is smaller than its city boundary or population suggests then note it down here.
Well there are cities that feel large in the physical sense - like a lot of sprawling American cities, with a weak downtown, and those that seem very compact but with a very bustling downtown, like Hong Kong to an extent, and those in between.
In terms of downtowns I imagine somewhere like Dhaka has a weak downtown feel.
Dhaka, Bangladesh, feels pretty small. It even seems like s small city when driving in and out to the countryside. Actually, most third world cities feel very small, because they have so few cars, and because a great majority of the population is scattered out in the suburbs, which makes the city center feel small and quiet.
Seoul feels much smaller than Hong Kong, which has only half of its population.
Older more traditional cities tend to have large city centres and are not as car orientated, whilst newer post WW2 cities tend to be more spread out, and more designed around the use of cars, with more shopping malls and suburbs.
Older more traditional cities therefore often feel a lot larger when you are in the city centre itself than newer sprawling cities. The other major factor in making cities seem bigger is a subway/metro/underground network whereby different parts of a city can be easily accessible.
Sprawling cities with no real heart or city centre and a lack of a metro system often feel smaller than more compact cities with good rail and metro links imho.
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