Agreed. If we were to look at the cities' population density the figures are stark. Los Angeles pop: 3,849,378 dens: 8,205 New York pop: 8,274,527 dens: 27

Agreed. If we were to look at the cities' population density the figures are stark. Los Angeles pop: 3,849,378 dens: 8,205 New York pop: 8,274,527 dens: 27,147 Vancouver pop: 578,041 dens: 13,817.6 London pop: 7,556,900 dens: 12,331 The kicker is that these figures obscure the fact that the core of LA just 3 million. In other words, only 1/4 of the people live in the core, and the core is still more spread out than these other cities. By contrast, half of the people in the NY Metro live in NYC proper. In London, greater than half of the people live in it London proper. LA's profile is most similar to Vancouver's, which is a city with fewer people in its greater metro area than LA has in its core.