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This sort of thing always crops up when comparing US cities to cities in other countries. Other countries tend to count more of the surrounding built up areas
by BigJono 5y ago
This sort of thing always crops up when comparing US cities to cities in other countries.
Other countries tend to count more of the surrounding built up areas as part of the city itself. Whereas every time I look at a US city there's places chock full of buildings right next door that somehow don't count.
Looking at Pittsburg there's a bunch of "townships" and things which would be considered part of the city in most other countries, which makes it difficult to compare absolute metrics like "number of bridges in the city".
- tgflynn 5y agoThat's definitely not true in general, in fact my impression has always been the exact opposite. France, in particular, has a very large number of distinct municipalities (called communes). Paris proper includes only the very high-density central and historical core of the city. The inner ring suburbs still appear very urban. Compared to New York it would be like comparing the 5 boroughs = 1 city with the entire Paris region which probably contains dozens of distinct municipalities.
- theandrewbailey 5y agoUS cities are usually considered by their city limits, which are almost always pretty small, and have lots of smaller suburbs surrounding them. The other countries definition seems more analogous to the US Census Bureau metro areas. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metropolitan_statistical_area https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metropolitan_statistical_area