But even then, NYC alone is only at about 330 square miles, IIRC, but has over eight million people. The ten county region making up the Houston metropolitan area is just over six. the Houston urban area is right around five million. Houston is definitely building like LA. There are a lot of similarities between the two cities development wise. Large grid layouts with freeways crossing the grid. Houston is built denser than other piers like Philly, Dallas, and Atlanta. Once you get outside of e Philly core, it is pretty spread out. Houston is denser due to smaller lot sizes.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Largest_cities_in_the_United_States_by_population_by_decade#2010 Chicago's population is declining...Houston's is rapidly growing. There were many who believed the 2010 census would already reflect a bigger population. Right now, there's a little under 600K person difference between the two cities. I can damn near well guarantee you that the 2020 census will reflect Houston as the 3rd biggest city.
No, Rice just did a study on this. A lot of the roads in Houston were built without much space for expansion. There aren't dedicated left turn lanes on many of these roads, so people stop on an actual lane causing traffic. There are hardly any right turn yields in Houston, something I took for granted living in DFW where there is more local planning. And there needs to be a rail system. Not just this light rail bull****, but a real system like in San Francisco. The Katy Freeway should have a heavy rail line down the middle, not a tollway that gets backed up like the freeway.
Excerpt from wiki: Below is a list of urban areas in the United States as defined by the U.S. Census Bureau, ordered according to their 2010 Census populations. In the table, UA refers to "urbanized area" (urban areas with population over 50,000) and UC refers to "urban cluster" (urban areas with population less than 50,000). The list includes urban areas with a population of at least 40,000. For the 2010 census, the Census Bureau redefined the classification of urban areas to "a densely settled core of census tracts and/or census blocks that meet minimum population density requirements, along with adjacent territory containing non-residential urban land uses as well as territory with low population density included to link outlying densely settled territory with the densely settled core. To qualify as an urban area, the territory identified according to criteria must encompass at least 2,500 people, at least 1,500 of which reside outside institutional group quarters." This criterion results in several large urban agglomerations that encompass multiple urban areas from the 2000 census. The Census Bureau is considering whether to split up the larger agglomerations, but published potential agglomerations in August 2010. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_urban_areas
It was in response to your statement saying "there's a little under 600K person difference between the two cities" and "that the 2020 census will reflect Houston as the 3rd biggest city". Call it a point, premise, conclusion, whatever you want. It's just facts. I'm saying it really isn't that close. I guess I'd call that a conclusion since I'm using the linked provided as a supporting premise.
Houston is one of the least-dense cities in the world (of it's size anyhow). Not sure if you mean that it will be more dense in the future or what.
The development of the Eagle Ford Trend is going to pump massive amounts of money into Houston (and San Antonio) for the next 15 years ... massive. Drillers, oil field suppliers, engineering and construction, chemicals and chemical products. get rich kids.
Like I said, Houston is building like LA. May not be dense like the northeast cities in the core, but there is a higher consistent density outside of it. Look up urban areas.
The data in the link I posted directly supports my initial claim that Chicago is a much bigger city in terms of metropolitan population size. In my opinion, “metro population” is a better measure of a city’s size than “municipality population” which is based on city lines (drawn arbitrarily years ago). This is where differences of opinions can occur. In my opinion, a fair assessment of a city’s scope stretches beyond city lines, to the extent of areas which that are socially, economically, and commercially tied to the urban core. To illustrate this point, “For example, in 2000 San Antonio was the 10th largest city in the U.S., larger than Boston or San Francisco, but its Metro Area was only ranked about 30th.” http://www.peakbagger.com/pbgeog/histmetropop.aspx
This guy is obviously a yank. **** yanks. We should build a fence along the northern border to keep all the stupid yanks out.
