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Old 07-03-2009, 03:25 PM
 
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I was in Houston for the first time last weekend and was taken aback by the seemingly endless sprawl and how long it took to get from one side of the city to the other.

I've driven in Dallas, but honestly, there's no comparison in terms of size. Houston feels exponentially larger and covers a much larger land area as well.

It was quite overwhelming!
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Old 07-03-2009, 03:33 PM
 
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Because it is exponentially larger. It's one of the largest in the US in terms of area, it's very spread out.
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Old 07-03-2009, 04:04 PM
 
Location: Houston, TX
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Houston is in Harris County - it covers 1775 square miles making it the 3rd largest county in the U.s. - so yes the sprawl is endless it seems.
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Old 07-03-2009, 04:09 PM
 
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It's sprawled, yes, but I don't see how being in the same political boundary as opposed to there being spread across several cities/counties like DFW makes it any more or less sprawled.
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Old 07-03-2009, 04:17 PM
 
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It's sprawled, yes, but I don't see how being in the same political boundary as opposed to there being spread across several cities/counties like DFW makes it any more or less sprawled.
true. They both sprawl bad and Dallas can seem pretty overwhelming too.
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Old 07-03-2009, 05:00 PM
 
Location: Washington D.C. By way of Texas
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Houston is in Harris County - it covers 1775 square miles making it the 3rd largest county in the U.s. - so yes the sprawl is endless it seems.
Is that right? Because I know there are counties in the West that are much larger than Harris County in area. Or are you going by just population?
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Old 07-03-2009, 05:03 PM
 
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Is that right? Because I know there are counties in the West that are much larger than Harris County in area. Or are you going by just population?
Brewster County is the largest county in Texas. Its population is close to 9100.

So, it is going by population.
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Old 07-04-2009, 06:57 AM
 
Location: Houston, TX
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I think Houston is the 4th largest city in the US, behind NYC, LA and Chicago if not mistaken.
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Old 07-04-2009, 08:05 AM
 
Location: Houston/Brenham
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Reading these posts, there is confusion between large "population" and large "size".

Houston is the fourth largest city by population (oildog's list is correct).

Size? Houston is huge. Sprawl is putting it nicely. While there are a few other cities as large as Houston, none come close in population, so we are the largest *large* city.

Houston takes up a good portion of Harris County, but we are not anywhere close to being all of it. There are dozens of other cities in Harris County, plus hundreds of square miles of unincorporated land. Houston also "sprawls" into other counties. Not sure which (I'm sure a quick Google/Wiki search would answer it, but I'm too lazy), but I believe we are also in Ft. Bend, Montgomery, Brazoria and Waller Counties.
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Old 07-04-2009, 08:58 AM
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Not any larger in distances than any other major urban region like NYC or Phila or Chic or SF, etc; in fact, given how much faster are freeways in TX or CA, would argue NYC region is most sprawled given its puny, lethargic fwy network w/many chokepoints anywhere nr Manhattan

Besides, only matters where one lives and works; many in these sprawling urban regions have no reason to ever visit or travel through vast parts of these regions, e.g., one lives in Memorial and works at Galleria area, so much of traffic and sprawl in rest of region is meaningless to many
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