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Haha that's part of why I love NJ. You have super urban dense areas like JC, Bayonne, Newark and then lots of rural countryside.
So basically nj is dense cause the small city masses while other cities are much bigger and have lot more land which decrease density making it unfair to say whoes densist. I live in NYC and if you counted each boro as a city you still have an unfair advatage except for manhattan at 71,000 people per sq mi at 22.96 sq mi.
San Fran would have to wipe out 75% of their housing stock and build highrises in their place for that to happen.
I live in Boston and I would not want to see the pop density shoot up like that. Lots of great neighborhoods with great houses would have to go.
True, but Boston's peak population right after WWII was much higher than today's population, and the city limits haven't changed. They just had larger households back then, and fewer parking lots and no expressways. There were tons of people living in the West End where today's ugly civic center now sits.
Haha that's part of why I love NJ. You have super urban dense areas like JC, Bayonne, Newark and then lots of rural countryside.
Me too. I prefer the densely settled cities and towns, with lots of unsettled space between them. And that's why I hate suburbs (the post-WWII sprawly ones). Suburbs combine the worst aspects of cities and rural areas.
^ Yeah, the thing is those NJ municipalities are small in area. Guttenberg is 0.2 square miles. It's 4 blocks by 5 blocks, I think, and its population is only 10 or 11 thousand. So dense as it is, it covers a tiny area. But, immediately adjacent to Guttenberg are places like Union City, West New York, Weehawken, North Bergen, Hoboken, all are a bit larger, and all are very dense too. If Manhattan were carved into municipalities of 0.2 sq miles, you'd have some astronomical density figures in some of them.
I think that part of the reason these communities are so crowded is that they are so small. They cannot waste any land on typical surburban or semi suburban housing or even parks.
Union City, NJ is a little over 1 sq mile and its population is close to 63,000... thats DENSE
Hudson, Bergen, Essex, Union, Passaic, Mercer, Middlesex and Camden counties are really the real dense ones in nj out of the 21 counties overall.
NJ is so dense only because its a metro of 2 really big cities, Phili and NYC. Most of its population is really in the NE and SW. Central, SE, and NW jersey isnt really too close to either of the major towns which makes those sections not as densly populated.
LOL I grew up in a neighborhood in Queens (Woodhaven) that is a little over 1sq mile and only had a population of 35,000 in comparasion. And Woodhaven is right next to the 500+ acre Forest Park.
On your maps I am suprised to see Bergen County with such a high population density - I thought it was a nice spread out spacious suburban area? The wild Pine Barrens can be seen in the southern part of NJ.
Interesting to see how the population drops off from NYC as you move upstate. The darker green areas are the Adirondacks, Catskills and I think the Alleghanies in the west.
I wish more cities were as dense as New York, expecially Manhattan! I know half the people here would disagree with me, but I like dense cities like that.
I love the post, and have actually made these calculations with the same method in the past myself out of boredom, but I'd hate for it to be a reality. I've lived in Jacksonville, and Houston both and would not want to be in either if this were true. Put me on the next plane to Cathmandu....lol.
True, but Boston's peak population right after WWII was much higher than today's population, and the city limits haven't changed. They just had larger households back then, and fewer parking lots and no expressways. There were tons of people living in the West End where today's ugly civic center now sits.
And lot of those people were packed into tight living conditions that we as modern Americans would consider substandard if not slum-like.
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