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Hong Kong has a population density of 6,659 people per square kilometer. Similarly, Tokyo has 6,158 persons per square kilometer The SF Bay Area has a density
by chx 4y ago
Hong Kong has a population density of 6,659 people per square kilometer. Similarly, Tokyo has 6,158 persons per square kilometer
The SF Bay Area has a density of 431 people per square kilometer.
Obviously it's easier and much more efficient to build rapid transit when you are serving areas fifteen times more populated.
- solresol 4y agoA better comparison would be with Greater Sydney (442 people per square kilometre).
- asiachick 4y agoI don't think it's that simple https://youtu.be/MnyeRlMsTgI?t=50 https://youtu.be/MnyeRlMsTgI?t=50 And just because the bay area average is 431 there are plenty of cities in the bay area with much higher densities and there are comparable cities else where that manage to have great public transportation.
- deltaonefour 4y ago
- lstamour 4y agoI’m seeing a density of 2,419 per sq km for SF urban core at https://www.newgeography.com/content/007367-toronto-solidifies-highest-density-ranking-north-america https://www.newgeography.com/content/007367-toronto-solidifi... and that beats New York at 2,054 people per sq km. Probably has something to do with how the urban core is defined and NYC sprawl, but still interesting…
- deltaonefour 4y ago
- seoaeu 4y agoManhattan itself is like 27,000 people per sq km, so how you define urban core matters a ton
- astrange 4y agoWould've helped a lot if they'd upzoned near transit, so people would actually live next to it instead of parking lots and SFH. Eventually SB50 will come back and do it, hopefully. There's also VTA, which guessed completely wrong about where people would move to and so goes from MTV to nowhere.