wsbsteven
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RonDawg said:
Here we go, data sources that were used in the second post:
http://la.curbed.com/archives/2012/03/los_angeles_is_the_most_densely_populated_urban_area_in_the_us.php" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
"You have to love the US Census--it came out with data today contradicting the conventional wisdom about sprawl defining the Los Angeles metropolitan area. According to a press release: "The nation's most densely populated urbanized area is Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, Calif., with nearly 7,000 people per square mile." You hear that New York-Newark? (That metro, by the way, came in fifth, with "an overall density of 5,319 people per square mile.") ...."
http://www.housingzone.com/industry-data-research/los-angeles-boasts-highest-urban-population-density" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
"Recently released data from the U.S. Census Bureau from 2010 reveals that the 41 major urban areas nationwide accounted for 80 percent of the total U.S. population. Analysis by New Geography showed that Los Angeles had the highest population density, housing nearly 7,000 people per square mile...."
http://www.uctc.net/access/37/access37_sprawl.shtml" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
"Sprawl has no single definition. Many people, however, tend to think of "sprawling" cities as places where people make most of their trips by car, and non-sprawling cities as places where people are more likely to walk, cycle, or take transit. This is why Los Angeles, which has more vehicles per square mile than any other urbanized area, and where transit accounts for only two percent of the region's overall trips, is considered sprawling, while the New York urbanized area is not. We also know (or think we know) that places where people frequently walk, cycle, or take transit tend to have high population densities, and for this reason we tend to view low density as a proxy for sprawl. But as it turns out, the Los Angeles urbanized area—which in both myth and fact is very car-oriented—is also very dense. In fact, Los Angeles has been the densest urbanized area in the United States since the 1980s, denser even than New York and San Francisco..."
http://www.kcet.org/updaily/socal_focus/commentary/where-we-are/density-census-numbers-betray-an-la-cliche.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
"...Population in the New York metropolitan area is highly concentrated until, less than the distance from City Hall to the beach at Santa Monica, New York's density falls below the density of Los Angeles.
The data shows that a lot of people in the region live far from the Los Angeles Civic Center, but they do so at pretty high density levels. Few people in the region live in locales with lower density. And unlike the demographics anywhere else in America, almost no one in the region lives a rural life...."
It just depends on how you measure it. The metric the U.S. Census Bureau uses is what was presented here.
