Which feels the largest: Buenos Aires, New York, or Mexico City? (live, cities)

[marlaver]

Originally Posted by Fabio SBA

São Paulo is actually bigger than Buenos Aires. The city proper has 11 million inhabitants and the metropolitan area has more than 20 million.

I was talking about size, not population.

Here are the three cities on Google Earth:







As i said, they are very comparable in size. Sao Paulo and MC are definitely more dense than BA.

[Jorge Bueno]

Mexico City.

Tokyo...seems even bigger.

I think New York City is like the 10th or 12 largest metro in the world now.

[Aztecgoddess]

Originally Posted by Fabio SBA

I know both cities and I can state that both have a similar 'modus vivendi' - at least both have much more in common than any of them with Rio; but they look completely different. Buenos Aires should be considered the 'Paris of the South', both due to its cultural vibe and its beautiful classical architecture everywhere - places such as Palermo and Recoleta could be easily be neighbourhoods of Paris. São Paulo, on the other hand, is more '20th Century', full of towers of concrete, steel and glass; I don't know if it can be easily compared with any other city in the world. One common complaint of both visitors and citizens in São Paulo is the widespread presence of tangled overhead electrical wires, not present in Buenos Aires, which makes the city feel much uglier than it should be.

Great input, muito obrigada

[marlaver]

Buenos Aires from the air:

[rosa surf]

Originally Posted by Fabio SBA

Mexico City appears to have fewer high rise buildings than Buenos Aires and NYC. This is important for a city to have the look and feel of being large (even if it's only the look and feel).

That is a very Brazilian mentality. Lol

You guys are obsessed with cities having lots of high rise buildings. I wonder where that comes from?

Have you ever been to Mexico City?

[Fabio SBA]

Originally Posted by rosa surf

That is a very Brazilian mentality. Lol

You guys are obsessed with cities having lots of high rise buildings. I wonder where that comes from?

Have you ever been to Mexico City?

In fact no. I only know Mexico City from Street View and pictures. However I would like to visit it in some point of the time.

[anthony69]

Mexico city feels more massive

Mexico city > NYC > Buenos Aires

[RudyOD]

If adding Tokyo and Sao Paulo, I would say

Tokyo > Sao Paulo >Mexico City > NYC > Buenos Aires

I was reading that Shanghai is similar to LA in that it is more sprawl than high rise (as opposed to Tokyo, NYC, Sao Paulo). Is this true?

[Dream-Seller]

Sao Paulo


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[UrbanLuis]

SP looks massive! Great pics.