> Hell, parts of Brooklyn have streets upon streets of single family homes with large yards that wouldn't look out of place in quaint Connecticut towns. I hear

> Hell, parts of Brooklyn have streets upon streets of single family homes with large yards that wouldn't look out of place in quaint Connecticut towns. I hear a tree even grows there! No, that's really interesting. It would be amusing, more than anything, to try to define some kind of "absolute urban" by which all other locales can be measured for their urban-ness (or lack thereof... sub-urban-ness, I suppose) and, if found wanting, decorated with big-box stores and strip malls. So... how urban is Midtown Manhattan compared to Calcutta or Dubai?