"Cities versus suburbs? Get over it. Welcome to the metropolitan century."

Learning from slums. Very clever to present the crossover between Prince Charles, Teddy Cruz and Christian Werthmann.

"t is necessary to bridge the gap between 50 years of progress in urban economic research and the intellectual stagnation typically found in operational urban planning"

Weighted density calcs for US urbanized areas. New York more than double next contender. LA #3, Chi #5.

Latest addition to fitnr: A graphing tool that visualizes distribution of the US population in custom population density ranges. Choose quantile or equal interval.

median block group over population density.

median (plus one) census tract over density

'Though true that the [Greater] LA urbanized area has a greater density than the [Greater] New York urbanized area, the LA urbanized area is half the size of New York’s" — NYC + 8 suburban counties has nearly 2x the density of LA.

median census tract over population density

center/periphery in western & central Europe. (More NUTS3). This site has many great maps of Euro

"Europe's population density for NUTS3 levels areas." Per km^2, I assume. [NUTS3 being a transnational designation for county level polities?]

if the census had a good API, that would be exciting.

Density calc from SF

Moronic commentary on urban density and the Atlantic Yards. probably by someone who's never been to Brooklyn

if you're looking for someone to have sex with, you live in the city; if you've got someone to have sex with, you live in the suburbs.