Re:Electric Vehicles for Everyone? The Impossible Dream
by sokoloff on Friday July 14, 2023 @09:14AM
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The definition of urbanized areas in the census is not what most of us would say "all of that is city living".
> To qualify as an urban area, the territory identified according to criteria must encompass at least 2,000 housing units or have a population of at least 5,000.
https://www.census.gov/programs-surveys/geography/guidance/g....
80% of the US population lives in urbanized areas according to the Census bureau. And the density of the census tracts most Americans live in is rising.
And it is possible to have walkable and transit oriented rural areas. Much of the rural US initally sprang up around dense market towns and railroads.