[OldNorth] Is Davis really so dense?

[Z Smith]

As much fun as that Washington Post report that John forwarded around seems 
(Davis denser than New York City?), this semingly shocking result is 
*entirely* an artifact of where this particular study chose to draw the 
boundaries of what it classified as an "urban area".

Reality check:  If you pick, say, San Francisco proper, you get 740,000 
people in 45 square miles = 16,000 people/square mile, average.  It varies a 
great deal spatially, of course. 
http://www.uncanny.net/~wetzel/sfdensity.htm

In fact, you can see a global listing of population densities for cities at

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_selected_cities_by_population_density

(remember to multiply by 2.58 to convert population/km2 to population/mi2 )

New York               26,553 per sq mi
    Manhattan          66,690
San Francisco          16,571
Los Angeles              7,846

Vancouver              13,122
    West End           51,600

Seoul                     42,289
Tokyo                    14,590
    Nakano dist.        51,853

--
Davis                        4,845   (Washington Post article)
Davis                        6,262   (62,000 / 9.9 sq. mi.) City web site
Davis                        5,769   (Wikipedia)

Z Smith
writing from Vancouver, BC, where it is dense and lovely


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>From: John Lofland <jflofland at ucdavis.edu>
>To: Old North Association <oldnorth at velocipede.dcn.davis.ca.us>
>CC: Esther Polito <epolito at pacbell.net>, Ken Hiatt <KHiatt at ci.davis.ca.us>, 
>        "Eileen M. Samitz" <emsamitz at dcn.davis.ca.us>,        Davis 
>Downtown <ddba at davis.com>
>Subject: [OldNorth] Fwd: density web site
>Date: Sun, 21 Aug 2005 13:42:56 -0700
>
>A recent Washington Post story on population density research reports that 
>Davis is the 6th most dense city in the U.S.  The URL of the story is given 
>below. John Lofland
>
>
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>>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/08/10/AR2005081002110.html


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