Suburban sprawl is stifling the US economy

Re:Suburban sprawl is stifling the US economy by pyre on Sunday March 29, 2015 @12:16AM (#9283854)

> whole town(600k people).

If you want to compare to a similar city in the US look at Portland, Oregon. The city proper has 500k ~ 600k (~2.5m if you count the 'metro area' -- for comparison Toronto Canada has ~2.7m people in the city proper).

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Re:Suburban sprawl is stifling the US economy by erispoe on Sunday March 29, 2015 @12:37AM (#9283894)

Comparaison made on municipality size is flawed in general, because the boundaries of a specific jurisdiction depends on political circumstances, not on urban growth. Take San Francisco: it has only 800k inhabitants for 8M in the Bay Area, 10%. Whereas San Antonio TX has 1.4M. Is it bigger? Well, San Antonio metro has only 2.3M. What matters is the size of the metro area, because metro areas are a measure of job markets, not political contingencies.

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Re:Suburban sprawl is stifling the US economy by tomazz on Sunday March 29, 2015 @12:43AM (#9283909)

Densities would probably be a decent measure in this case. Denser area == more jobs

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