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land area. it would take hours to walk from one border to the other (without much activity/density in between). i would think that most of the bordering cities around philly are 10+ square miles.
comparatively, most of the cities around boston (and the city of boston itself) are tiny (less than 5 square miles) with much more density and squares.
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land area. it would take hours to walk from one border to the other (without much activity/density in between). i would think that most of the bordering cities around philly are 10+ square miles.
comparatively, most of the cities around boston (and the city of boston itself) are tiny (less than 5 square miles) with much more density and squares.
That's true, but the city limits of Philadelphia extend far beyond Boston's; if Boston absorbed many of the dense cities and towns surrounding it, Boston would border suburbia as well.
FWIW, Upper Darby and many of the boroughs and townships in Delco are very dense and walkable.
In Houston we have lots of unincorporated areas that may have certain addresses but are not actually serviced by that area. For example the Katy Area has 300,000+ people but the city of Katy has 15,000 people. Katy ISD services the area, and more than 300,000 have Katy Addresses. It is kind of like each small town has it's own hinterland. Like Sugar Land has something like 90,000-100,000 people but add in the area with SL addresses and that number is up near 200,000 people, Missouri City goes from 70k to around 100k or maybe even more. Their is also Cypress which would go from 0 a it is not an incorporated city to somewhere around 200,000-400,000 people. Like It says I live in Katy, TX but technically I live in Unincorporated Fort Bend County. Some other towns such as Klein, Spring, and possibly The Woodlands would reach 100k in quick numbers, unlike the suburbs on the eastern part of Houston a lot of inhabited unincorporated land is in Harris County, Fort Bend County and Montgomery county, example 1.6 million live in unincorporated Harris County which incorporated would fall into about 10 or so suburbs with possibly over 100,000 plus people. Houston would basically look like Dallas with large suburbs or Los Angeles. I think Atlanta might be slightly similar in the regard of having millions in of unincorporated suburban areas.
Arlington is a county and a census designated place, not a city. As the thread title indicates, this is strictly for city propers.
All lists would look dramatically different if this was by counties, cities, AND census designated places.
At 26 sq mi, and over 8800 ppsm, Arlington is a VERY small and dense county. Couldn't an exception be made because it probably suffers from Virginia's unique city/county laws?
are there any cities inside of arlington county (it may be a very small and dense county but it would be a somewhat large and not very dense city) ?
26 sq mi, and 8800ppsm is a somewhat large and not very dense city???? That's less than half the size of several of the suburbs being compared here, and substantially more dense than quite a few core cities. Plano Texas (a city that qualifies in this discussion) is 71sq mi and 3820ppsm, and that's fairly "dense" by suburban standards. What is your basis for comparison?
But to answer your original question:
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Arlington is the geographically smallest self-governing county in the United States, and due to state law regarding population density, has no other incorporated towns within its borders.
At 26 sq mi, and over 8800 ppsm, Arlington is a VERY small and dense county. Couldn't an exception be made because it probably suffers from Virginia's unique city/county laws?
Yes, however my only point to manitopiaaa was to explain why it wasn't on the list when the thread was made.
More like 12-20 suburbs over 100,000.
The list would include
1. Katy
2. Cypress-Could be broken up into 3 or 4 over 100,000 or could become the largest suburb in the U.S (Maybe Mesa could slightly beat it?????).
3. Klein
4. Spring
5. Sugar Land
7. Missouri City
8. Richmond (By 2020 will have definitely over 100,000 it is hovering either right above or below that number give or take 20,000).
9. Pearland
10. League City
11. Pasadena
12. The Woodlands
13. Kingwood (if released by Houston)
14. Clear Lake City (If allowed to consolidate)
And if this was compiled again in 2020 I'm sure this city would cross also.
15. Conroe
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