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People like to criticize the Phoenix urban area because they believe it's so sprawled, which there is sprawl here like everywhere, but the urban area certainly is more dense than many others in the US including San Antonio and Austin. How is sprawling from north of Austin all the way to San Antonio supposed to be a good thing? Haven't these cities learned from other cities' mistakes?
People like to criticize the Phoenix urban area because they believe it's so sprawled, which there is sprawl here like everywhere, but the urban area certainly is more dense than many others in the US including San Antonio and Austin. How is sprawling from north of Austin all the way to San Antonio supposed to be a good thing? Haven't these cities learned from other cities' mistakes?
The only good thing is the recognition of being bigger and one unified metro, more opportunities. Phoenix is probably as dense as San Antonio within citiy limits. San Antonio has 1.4 million people within 300 square miles, the 407 total is the recently added undevleoped rural area to the far south to balance growth. Historically San Antonio has always grown northward, the reason for the annexation to the far south. Phoenix covers more square miles.
Sprawl isn't a good thing but what counts is that San Antonio and Austin have vibrant dense downtowns.
Last edited by SweethomeSanAntonio; 04-02-2010 at 12:56 PM..
Is this suppose to be a good thing? Sound more like the destruction of the Hill Country.
It is more destruction of the Hill Country. In far northwest SA treed hilltops are completely sheared off all vegetation removed and expensive homes in there place. Extreme flash flooding down stream results a few years later in areas that hadn't seen this type of flooding before.
There is the randolph metrocom off I-35 going towards Austin, population nearly 350,000 includes, cibolo, universal City, Selma, Shertz, garden Ridge then there is New braunfels another 50k to 120K plus in Comal, then San Marcos 50K(150K Hays) , Buda, kyle then Austin. There is about 500,000 people between both cities and growing fast. There will be a million people between them both before you know it.
The time will come when more people live outside Loop 410 than in, this has already happened on the northside of SA years ago.
Last edited by BillyH; 04-02-2010 at 01:55 PM..
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