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Old 08-21-2011, 01:17 PM
 
Location: Metro Atlanta (Sandy Springs), by way of Macon, GA
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Augusta having a larger MSA population than Macon and Columbus' CSA sounds great and also may seem to suggest "if Augusta's MSA is larger than their CSAs, imagine how big the gap would be if Augusta had a CSA too" but actually Augusta's MSA covers more land than the CSAs of Macon and Columbus. Give the Macon CSA that much land and you'd have to include Milledgeville/Baldwin County micropolitan (nearly 50,000) and maybe even Dublin/Laurens County micropolitan (also nearly 50,000 +). I do think Augusta is "more built up" and a larger city/urban area but maybe not by as big of a margin as the MSA and CSA #s suggest.
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Old 08-21-2011, 01:52 PM
 
Location: Atlanta Metro
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I hope what you all are saying is that these three cities will catch up with their piers Atlanta, and Savannah in population tourism and SKYLINE/METRO.
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Old 08-21-2011, 03:38 PM
 
Location: Augusta, GA ''The fastest rising city in the southeast''
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I hope what you all are saying is that these three cities will catch up with their piers Atlanta, and Savannah in population tourism and SKYLINE/METRO.
I don't exactly understand the catch up in skyline/metro comment.. The population of metro Augusta(556k) is over 200k larger than metro Savannah(347k). I'm certain both Augusta and Macon have a larger skyline compared to Savannah..

The 2009 Urban Area populations....

Augusta 340,146
Columbus 246,572
Savannah 203,256
Macon 129,827

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Old 08-26-2011, 09:53 AM
 
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Somewhat. It's better than MSA and CSA that's for sure. I still cant trust it when Macon and Warner Robins are 2 separate UAsa and there's no real gap between the 2 on US-247. I dont understand why they cant just use a 30 mile radius from the downtown of each city and use that for a metro population??
Because that's a very arbitrary metric and it really cheats coastal cities.
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Old 08-26-2011, 11:13 PM
 
Location: Metro Atlanta (Sandy Springs), by way of Macon, GA
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Because that's a very arbitrary metric and it really cheats coastal cities.
You cant say that because then coastal cities could use that excuse for everything. "if everything east of the city wasnt water, there'd be land and more people there and our population would be bigger"
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Old 08-27-2011, 12:02 AM
 
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You cant say that because then coastal cities could use that excuse for everything. "if everything east of the city wasnt water, there'd be land and more people there and our population would be bigger"
With a set-mile radius, it's not an excuse; it's a very valid reason. But UA, MSA, CSA, etc. population standards don't cheat them and are more consistent.
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Old 08-27-2011, 04:27 PM
 
Location: Ono Island, Orange Beach, AL
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I hope what you all are saying is that these three cities will catch up with their piers Atlanta, and Savannah in population tourism and SKYLINE/METRO.
Not gonna happen in this lifetime and likely not ever. Besides, why would someone even want that?
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Old 12-14-2011, 02:33 PM
 
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no city is alike, every city was made different and every city has its own purpose.
No Augusta does NOT compare to macon nor Columbus. Augusta is the second oldest city in Georgia and second biggest. Columbus is also one of the biggest and Augusta and Columbus both top out in city district compared to Macon. Macon has I-16 going through it but you go through in like 3 seconds. Augusta and Columbus are away from interstates enough to expand their city district before they make connections with any near by interstate. Macon is like a dead zone and I really hope they get to build those condos and hotels downtown to increase the number of residents downtown. but yeah all cities are different. Besides Augusta and Columbus are in a Tallahassee category, I just feel Columbus is a little bit more than a Tallahassee and defiantly Augusta.

To Be fairly honest Columbus and Augusta are not only larger than Macon in Population thats because the cities are both consolidated before Augusta Consolidated with richmond it only had a pop of 47,000..... and columbus only had 70,000.... All three cities are not much more ahead of the other.... but I do feel That Macon and Augusta are more in the same league than Columbus......
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Old 12-14-2011, 05:48 PM
 
Location: Augusta, Ga
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Augusta having a larger MSA population than Macon and Columbus' CSA sounds great and also may seem to suggest "if Augusta's MSA is larger than their CSAs, imagine how big the gap would be if Augusta had a CSA too" but actually Augusta's MSA covers more land than the CSAs of Macon and Columbus. Give the Macon CSA that much land and you'd have to include Milledgeville/Baldwin County micropolitan (nearly 50,000) and maybe even Dublin/Laurens County micropolitan (also nearly 50,000 +). I do think Augusta is "more built up" and a larger city/urban area but maybe not by as big of a margin as the MSA and CSA #s suggest.
Augusta's MSA is large only because it includes South Carolina counties which are larger than GA's mainly Aiken county which by itself is 100 sq miles short of being the same size as the state of Rhode Island " In other words its the size of Lee, Muscogee and Chattahoochee Counties of the Columbus CSA " and Burke County in Georgia which is one the largest counties in the state at over 800 sq miles most of it extremely rural. Aiken, SC and Burke,GA alone are just as large as the entire Macon MSA. The Difference between Augusta, Columbus, and Macon as I see it, Is the fact that Augusta's population centers are more clustered together with it being in the center, Columbus shares with the A/O area and Macon shares with WR.


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before Augusta Consolidated with richmond it only had a pop of 47,000.....
This is true but the city limits were only 5 miles long by 3 miles wide.
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Old 12-14-2011, 09:01 PM
 
Location: Columbus, GA and Brookhaven, GA
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To Be fairly honest Columbus and Augusta are not only larger than Macon in Population thats because the cities are both consolidated before Augusta Consolidated with richmond it only had a pop of 47,000..... and columbus only had 70,000.... All three cities are not much more ahead of the other.... but I do feel That Macon and Augusta are more in the same league than Columbus......
Both Columbus and Augusta are much larger than Macon (Bibb County) by 40,000-50,000 people. Sorry dude. Macon will always be the little brother.
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