Which feels the largest: Buenos Aires, New York, or Mexico City? (2014, neighborhood)

[bballniket]

Take into account compression, sprawl, structural density, vehicular traffic, spread of pedestrian traffic, etc.

[claudio-claudio]

Mexico city

[kikebxl]

Mexico city. While NyC skyscrapers area (mainly Manhattan) is quite impressive, highly developed urban areas are way bigger and more impressive in Mexico DF

[UrbanLuis]

Never been to BA, but between NYC and Mexico I would say Mexico definitely feels bigger though the Manhattan skyline is by far the most impressive.

How big is Buenos Aires? Wouldn't Sao Paulo have been a better match up against Mexico and NYC?

[nei]

something happening in a Buenos Aires suburb:

https://www.google.com/maps/place/Bu...b3812e88e88e87

rather gritty looking:

https://www.google.com/maps/@-34.746...INkFhteBnA!2e0

somewhere in Mexico City:

https://www.google.com/maps/@19.3641...Zi27K4JFTg!2e0

random street outside the city limits:

https://www.google.com/maps/@19.3924...95b-bQdc5Q!2e0

New York City:

https://www.google.com/maps/@40.7068...A2E7Hrf_pw!2e0

https://www.google.com/maps/@40.7053...wfvMVCLj3A!2e0

random suburb:

https://www.google.com/maps/place/Ro...3a94406928fe9f

[marlaver]

Originally Posted by nei

something happening in a Buenos Aires suburb:

https://www.google.com/maps/place/Bu...b3812e88e88e87

rather gritty looking:

https://www.google.com/maps/@-34.746...INkFhteBnA!2e0

Thanks for going straight up to the "favelas" and picture it like an average suburb

Originally Posted by UrbanLuis

Never been to BA, but between NYC and Mexico I would say Mexico definitely feels bigger though the Manhattan skyline is by far the most impressive.

How big is Buenos Aires? Wouldn't Sao Paulo have been a better match up against Mexico and NYC?

Both Meico City, BA and SP are very close in size (altough i think BA is a bit bigger).
SP definitely is the most overwhelming here.
BA and DF are quit similar in this category. BA has more less dense suburbs like this: https://www.google.com.ar/maps/@-34....ld8_I4BjAQ!2e0
But, on the otherhand, has more vertical develop around its centre, with several neighborhood looking like this, wich are uncomon in DF:
https://www.google.com.ar/maps/@-34....0140701T000000

[nei]

Originally Posted by marlaver

Thanks for going straight up to the "favelas" and picture it like an average suburb

I honestly picked the first spot I could find at random. I suspected I hadn't found a good area

[Jesse44]

Haven't been to the other two, but Mexico City really is something else. When I flew in from Charlotte, NC, I could see sprawl from the city probably from 45 minutes before landing on the descent. Obviously, the plane is travelling significantly slowler than at cruising speed, but it's really crazy to think of how extensive that must mean it is. It just swallows up everything around the valley of Mexico BUT the volcanoes.

[UrbanLuis]

Mexico city
DF desde Tlalnepantla by Hotu Matua, on Flickr
Planeta hombre (6) by Hotu Matua, on Flickr


Buenos Aires
Buenos Aires, Argentina by jeremaixs, on Flickr
Buenos Aires aérea by santiago.uruguay, on Flickr

New York City

New York from the Air (2012) by Zohar Manor-Abel, on Flickr
2010_02_22_sba-lax-iad-bos_080 by dsearls, on Flickr

[claudio-claudio]

Mexico city feels bigger, most fast paced, also far more colorful!!!

Buenos aires is quite large but it feels as fast as NYC

Mexico city on the other hand is like Shanghai (fast fast fast)

no city anywhere however matches Hong kong in fast pacedness