Japan Shows the Way to Affordable Megacities (2014)

Re:Japan Shows the Way to Affordable Megacities (2014) by Retric on Sunday May 07, 2017 @10:28AM (#14285613)

NYC is limited by arbritraty state lines, if you look at the physical reality there is just as much sprawl it's just across state lines past Newark which is the same metro area with slightly different taxes and still has 11,654 people per square mile.

Further people commute to the city's center which is why they tend to have lower population density than parts of their surrounding area. Which is why https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guttenberg,_New_Jersey has twice NYC's population density even with shorter buildings.

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Re:Japan Shows the Way to Affordable Megacities (2014) by ghaff on Sunday May 07, 2017 @02:52PM (#14286905)

It's really hard in general to compare metropolitan areas in an apple-to-apples way for reasons like this. As a result, people tend to draw misleading conclusions based on often meaningless administrative boundaries. (e.g. Paris often cited as having extraordinary high density based on the small area that is technically the city.)

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