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I don't know if NY suburbs are a great example, though. Things are much more spread out and loosey-goosey there than in younger cities. Here's Plano, TX, which
by amyjess 9y ago
I don't know if NY suburbs are a great example, though. Things are much more spread out and loosey-goosey there than in younger cities.
Here's Plano, TX, which was mostly developed in the '90s and the 21st century: https://i.imgur.com/TmIlgBh.jpg https://i.imgur.com/TmIlgBh.jpg
Here's Westchester County, NY, developed much earlier than that and not nearly as dense: https://i.imgur.com/pSIettu.jpg https://i.imgur.com/pSIettu.jpg
(I used Google Maps zoom level 14 for both screenshots)
- CalRobert 9y agoIs Plano much denser? Or just more paved? Plano is a city of 71 sq miles and ~3800 people per square mile. Westchester is a _county_ of 500 square miles and 2300 people per square mile. In many regards, Westchester may be denser. It also looks like they haven't chopped down every last tree and laid waste to the land with asphalt.
- pavel_lishin 9y agoNever been to Westchester, except on a train passing through, but I am intimately familiar with Plano. It's dense, but most of it is a poster child for shitty suburbs: if you don't have a car, you're fucked. (Take a bus, you say? What bus? When I was living around there, most of Plano wasn't served by buses.)