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Old 12-21-2010, 12:23 AM
 
Location: Up on the moon laughing down on you
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No, I did that because you kept saying "You are back".
are you not back???
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Old 12-21-2010, 12:25 AM
 
Location: Dallas,Texas
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are you not back???
No, I am Black..........LOL
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Old 12-21-2010, 12:35 AM
 
Location: Up on the moon laughing down on you
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No, I am Black..........LOL
well we know that. we saw the pictures
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Old 12-21-2010, 12:40 AM
 
Location: Dallas,Texas
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well we know that. we saw the pictures
Whatttttttt?
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Old 12-21-2010, 10:07 PM
 
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Did you even look at the picture of the webcite I posted? The Southwestern Medical School is lead-in development into the greater downtown Dallas area. It is about two miles from downtown Dallas, about a mile from Uptown, and it is right next to the Dallas Market Center.

According to what has been posted in here, the Texas Medical Center has some 32 million square feet of plant space. If that includes schools like Rice University, then, sorry, that doesn't make sense. Anyway, here is the cite for Southwestern Medical Center:

2010 UT Southwestern Medical Center Facts

According to the facts, in comparison, UT Southwestern has 10.8 million square feet of plant space (plus 1.8 million square feet under development).

So, yes indeed, it is comparable: if not in amount of space, then certainly in quality of research and patient care.

The UT Southwestern Medical Center is co-located within the Dallas Medical District where hospitals like Parkland are also located. The overall district is called the "Dallas Medical District".

Here is a photo from 10-12-10 of the Dallas Medical District, located two miles north of Downtown Dallas:




If you click on the photo it will take you to a Flickr page I have created for the Dallas Medical District that contains many facts and figures for the center.

In addition to the Flickr page I have also created an Imageshack album that contains numerous photos for the Dallas Medical District located here:

ImageShack Album - 15 images

And as a slideshow click here:

ImageShack(TM) slideshow

The square footage information on the UT Southwestern website is for its buildings only and do not include other hospital and medical facilities that are co-located next to it, such as Parkland Hospital.

Further, there are two mammoth hospital projects currently underway in the Dallas Medical District that will add 3.7 million square feet to the Medical District.

One is the gargantuan new Parkland Hospital at 2.4 million square feet and the other is St. Paul Hospital at 1.3 million square feet. The two hospital projects together represent an investment of $2.1 billion dollars.

At 2.4 million square feet, the new state-of-the-art Parkland Hospital would be the equivalent of a 113 story skyscraper if it were being erected vertically!!

However the new Parkland Hospital will be more mid-rise in height at 17 stories at its tallest but spread over a significantly larger footprint.

There is also a mammoth 6,000 car parking garage that will be constructed right next door to the 2.4 million square foot hospital. A new Dallas Area Rapid Transit rail station will connect directly to the new Parkland Hospital.

The new Parkland Hospital DART station is part of the massive 28 mile expansion of the DART Green Line which has now made DART the largest light rail mass transit system in the nation. The Parkland DART station will become enormously successful for not only serving the Dallas Medical District directly but also will provide mass transit to the dense residential developments that are springing up left and right surrounding the new hospital.

Here is a super cool video of the new Parkland Hospital project that provides a glimpse of the spectacular, world-class facility that is rising in the Dallas Medical District (select 720p HD to view it):


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=euRMGpsyDms


An image of the new, state-of-the-art, 1.3 million square foot St. Paul Hospital under construction can be seen as the last image in the Imageshack photo album (the Imageshack link located above). The new St. Paul Hospital will be 1.3 million square feet, which is equivalent to a 61 story skyscraper if it were to be erected vertically.
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Old 12-21-2010, 10:37 PM
 
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do the calculations yourself

2.3M divided by 579sq miles
dallas is 1.3 divided by 345sq miles

I know you are young, but you should have already learnt that by now.
then again Oaklawn schools are crap

Dallas is denser than Houston when the correct numbers are used to compute population density. To wit:

Dallas in 2010:

Population (from 11-15-10 census estimate): 1,320,126
Land mass (hasn't changed in decades!): 342.5 square miles
Density people per square mile: 3,854.4

Houston in 2010:

Population (from 11-15-10 census estimate): 2,306,455
Land mass (as of 2010): 640 square miles
Density people per square mile: 3,637.9


FURTHER, Dallas had a denser city population than Houston even in 2000. Just look it up on Demographia's website that recaps the final 1990 and 2000 census information for all cities over 50,000 people:

2000 Census: US Municipalities Over 50,000: Ranked by 2000 Population


Dallas in 2000:

Population: 1,188,580
Land mass: 342.5 square miles
Density people per square mile: 3,470


Houston in 2000:

Population: 1,953,631
Land mass: 579.5 square miles
Density people per square mile: 3,372


So, Dallas was denser than Houston in 2000 per the final Census Bureau data for 2000 by 98 people per square mile.

Now in 2010 Dallas has grown denser faster than Houston over the last decade and now is more dense per square mile by 216.5 people per square mile.

Dallas is the REAL metropolis of Texas and growing more so by the day!
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Old 12-22-2010, 09:36 AM
 
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Did you even look at the picture of the webcite I posted? The Southwestern Medical School is lead-in development into the greater downtown Dallas area. It is about two miles from downtown Dallas, about a mile from Uptown, and it is right next to the Dallas Market Center.
According to what has been posted in here, the Texas Medical Center has some 32 million square feet of plant space. If that includes schools like Rice University, then, sorry, that doesn't make sense. Anyway, here is the cite for Southwestern Medical Center:
2010 UT Southwestern Medical Center Facts
According to the facts, in comparison, UT Southwestern has 10.8 million square feet of plant space.
So, yes indeed, it is comparable: if not in amount of space, then certainly in quality of research and patient care.
Rice University is an official member of the Texas Medical Center, what doesn't make sense about that? Even without Rice the TMC is twice the size of the SW Med Center. The TX Med Center is inside the 610 loop and is linked to downtown Houston via the light rail system making it easily accessible to everyone whether you're walking, driving or even flying.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0xc8DLFTugI
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Old 12-22-2010, 09:40 AM
 
Location: The land of sugar... previously Houston and Austin
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^^ Some of you are really splitting hairs with the DFW vs Houston stuff.

Truth is, they are very comparable and extremely similar in most ways.
Now, the Texas Medical Center in Houston, which the original topic was about, is with no doubt the largest medical district in the state, country, if not the world. There's not much comparison there.

Not sure why such the need to "prove" things from some of the newbie DFW posters. But thanks for the chuckles anyway.
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Old 12-22-2010, 09:46 AM
 
Location: Reality
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The square footage information on the UT Southwestern website is for its buildings only and do not include other hospital and medical facilities that are co-located next to it, such as Parkland Hospital.
The data on the Texas Medical Center website is only for the official member institutions affiliate with the TX Medical Center, some have been members since the 1940s like Baylor.

http://www.texmedctr.tmc.edu/NR/rdon...dates22511.pdf

The official TX Medical Center is the LARGEST medical center in the WORLD. If you count everything in the area of the TX Medical Center as a "medical district" it would embarrass anyone even trying to compare it to the medical center in Dallas. There are individual hospitals in the TX Medical Center that compare to the SW Medical Center.
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Old 12-22-2010, 10:01 AM
 
Location: Dallas,Texas
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Why are we comparing Texas Medical Center to the Southwestern Medical District? Yes, SW Medical District is expanding, but even after the expansion it will not be on the level of the Texas Medical Center.
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