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Originally Posted by mhays
My city is treated fairly. It's still a misleading metric for comparisons, and always needs context.
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Originally Posted by spoonman
Super misleading.
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Yup.
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Originally Posted by Obadno
Mesa is not denser than Phoenix at all, the problem is the city limits do not coincide with the actual population of the city, They city owns massive areas of uninhabited desert in the far north and hundreds of square miles of mountain preserves that it treats as city parks, vastly expanding the city sqr miles beyond the actual development.
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This is in the center of Phoenix city limits. Preserve lands, entire mountain ranges, city parks that are massive, and have a population of 0.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/alanenglish/5356223404/
Here is another area of the city of Phoenix. It's the largest city park in the U.S. and one of the largest in the world at 26 square miles [population 0].
https://www.flickr.com/photos/danayeager/4277058895/
In this picture, you can see all the other mountains to the north that entirely lie within the city limits of Phoenix.