On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 3:04 PM, Will Hill <[email protected]> wrote:
> but they are not orders of magnitude denser than the US Back of the envelope shows an order of magnitude difference. Even being generous and assuming that people only live in the non-arable land areas, it's still an order of magnitude. In fact, my back of the envelope comes pretty darned close this table: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_population_density Tokyo has a population density of 4,750/sq km. Los Angeles: 2750 San Francisco/Oakland: 2350 San jose: 2,300 New Orleans: 1950 New York: 2050 Honolulu: 1800 Vegas: 1750 Denver: 1550 Chicago: 1500 Salt Lake: 1500 Sacramento: 1450 Phoenix: 1400 Riverside: 1350 Portland: 1300 Washington: 1300 San Antonio: 1250 Detroit: 1200 El Paso: 1200 Baltimore: 1150 Dallas: 1150 Houston: 1150 Austin: 1150 Seattle: 1100 Philly: 1100 Cleveland: 1050 Memphis: 950 Boston: 900 OKC: 900 Pittsburgh: 800 Albany: 750 Atlanta: 700 Baton Rouge: 650 Mobile: 600 Pensacola: 550 Knoxville: 500 Our largest cities are generally less than half as dense as Tokyo with the exception of maybe Los Angeles and Frisco area. Then you have to worry about serving all the burbs, bedroom communities, and rural areas too.
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