Top 10 North American Downtowns (U.S + CAD/Post covid)

[the resident09]

Originally Posted by mhays25

True, it's all worthless without comparing boundaries.

The radius thing is also hard to use without details. What if 40% of the radius area is water? What if the chosen centerpoints aren't really parallel?

Houston was not impacted by water in any way for those radius populations. For those that were most impacted I moved the radius point as fairly as possible to keep the downtown core centered while still moving away from the water and searching for as much populated land as possible. Unfortunately for some cities affected by water they do lag behind a bit until the radius gets to a certain size.

[mhays25]

Some, like NYC, Seattle, and SF, will have large amounts of water regardless.

I don't know if the radius tools have this yet, but identifying land vs. water area would be a big improvement.

That said, I appreciate the numbers and the effort.

[the resident09]

Originally Posted by mhays25

Some, like NYC, Seattle, and SF, will have large amounts of water regardless.

I don't know if the radius tools have this yet, but identifying land vs. water area would be a big improvement.

That said, I appreciate the numbers and the effort.

Understood, and what I find best about the tool is that you can simply tap around it and move the center point at any area on the map. So quite honestly you get a good sense of the overall population of a place just playing with the tool because you can see where a place maxes out at. Every radius population I posted for each city was the highest population I could find at the fairest point possible to every city's downtown central point, whether it being hampered by water or not. But obviously the shapes of development patterns and physical geography of individual cities plays a role here.