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Old 11-27-2008, 05:03 PM
 
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Hey banx, the title of the thread is "Chicago will push 3,000,000 again" not "will Houston pass Chicago in population"
I wasn't the first to bring it up, u can thanks ur fellow Houstonians for always putting in their 2 cents.
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Old 11-27-2008, 05:05 PM
 
Location: ITL (Houston)
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Wow, that's basically suburban L.A. density right there, if these numbers are accurate, Houston needs a lot of work in the density department, not sounding good by these numbers....
Those aren't even the densest parts of Houston though. That goes to SW Houston. Also, the Port of Houston takes some of the density away in the Inner Loop. Still, LA has natural boundaries that hem in things. By the way, the City of LA density is at 8200.
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Old 11-27-2008, 05:26 PM
 
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That's true, L.A.'s density is hovering in the 8,000's, but once you take away the huge swaths of land that the Santa Monica mountain range occupies, the density of the city is easily over 10,000/mi². Most census tracts in L.A. are denser than 8,200/mi², even in the valley, but with a mountain range included in the city limits, the true density of the city is skewed, but if a person has truly experienced L.A., they know how dense the city is.

Here's a map showing the density of L.A., ranging from South Los Angeles, to Downtown, to Wilshire, and up to Hollywood.

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/bottleneck/images/2008/07/14/censustractlevel.jpg (broken link)

Light Yellow = >8,827/mi²
Dark Yellow = 8,950-18,805/mi²
Light Green = 18,110-30,503/mi²
Medium Green = 31,146-53,458/mi²
Dark Green = 57,281-92,464/mi²

Official Census Map on L.A. density

I don't think I need to explain anything else about how dense L.A. is (or isn't to people in New York City).

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Those aren't even the densest parts of Houston though. That goes to SW Houston. Also, the Port of Houston takes some of the density away in the Inner Loop. Still, LA has natural boundaries that hem in things. By the way, the City of LA density is at 8200.
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Old 11-27-2008, 09:13 PM
 
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Chicago 2030: 3,260,897
Northeastern Illinois Planning Commission
Houston 2030: 2,798,278
http://www.hfd.ci.houston.tx.us/plan...rojections.htm (http://www.hfd.ci.houston.tx.us/planning/Demographics/demographics/PopProjections.htm - broken link)

got this from a new post on the Houston surpassing Chicago thread. It's predictions for population in 2030.
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Old 11-27-2008, 11:57 PM
 
Location: ITL (Houston)
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^^Some old predictions at that. Links don't work by the way.

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That's true, L.A.'s density is hovering in the 8,000's, but once you take away the huge swaths of land that the Santa Monica mountain range occupies, the density of the city is easily over 10,000/mi². Most census tracts in L.A. are denser than 8,200/mi², even in the valley, but with a mountain range included in the city limits, the true density of the city is skewed, but if a person has truly experienced L.A., they know how dense the city is.

Here's a map showing the density of L.A., ranging from South Los Angeles, to Downtown, to Wilshire, and up to Hollywood.



Light Yellow = >8,827/mi²
Dark Yellow = 8,950-18,805/mi²
Light Green = 18,110-30,503/mi²
Medium Green = 31,146-53,458/mi²
Dark Green = 57,281-92,464/mi²

Official Census Map on L.A. density

I don't think I need to explain anything else about how dense L.A. is (or isn't to people in New York City).
That's nice (I knew you'd mention the mountains). Maybe you should take away the Barker Reservoir and Addicks Reservoir in Houston, and maybe all that water as well. I go to LA a lot, and yes, it's dense (not NYC dense, but dense). If Houston had mountains around it, or a place like the Everglades next to it (Miami, a denser city than LA), then it'd be denser, too.
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Old 11-28-2008, 03:31 AM
 
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^^Some old predictions at that. Links don't work by the way.



That's nice (I knew you'd mention the mountains). Maybe you should take away the Barker Reservoir and Addicks Reservoir in Houston, and maybe all that water as well. I go to LA a lot, and yes, it's dense (not NYC dense, but dense). If Houston had mountains around it, or a place like the Everglades next to it (Miami, a denser city than LA), then it'd be denser, too.
Do you have a hard time deciphering information?
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Old 11-28-2008, 05:40 AM
 
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Do you have a hard time deciphering information?
Data Challenged?
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Old 11-28-2008, 07:36 AM
 
Location: ITL (Houston)
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Do you have a hard time deciphering information?
Nope.

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Data Challenged?
Who the hell are you?
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