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Posted Feb 11, 2011, 10:00 PM
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Originally Posted by professor
If we rearrange the cities by "urban area" which is population within 100 miles of the city center, we would have a different story:
1. New York
2. Los Angeles (includes San Diego)
3. Chicago
4. Washington, D.C. (includes Baltimore and Philadelphia)
5. Dallas (includes Fr. Worth, and Houston)
6. Charlotte (includes, Columbia, Winston Salem, Greensboro, Greenville)
7. San Francisco (San Jose, Oakland)
8. Atlanta
9. Boston
10. Miami (Ft. Lauderdale, Palm Beach)
When looking at these cities, one must consider that a couple of them are bordered by oceans that stop growth outward from the center, ie. Miami, Boston, and San Francisco. Atlanta has a smaller urban area than Charlotte as some of the nearby cities, ie. Greenville, S.C. are within the urban area of Charlotte.
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I disagree with your list if you are basing it on population within 100 miles of the city center. Recently, I did an analysis of the top 368 metro areas in population and their proximity to each other based on the US Census 2009 population estimates. The city with most population within 100 miles of its city center is Philadelphia which is not even on your list. Philadelphia would include both New York City to the north and Baltimore to the south. All of New Jersey is within 100 miles of Philadelphia. New York would be next followed by Los Angeles, Chicago, Washington and San Francisco.
Charlotte is not even in the top 10. From my analysis, Charlotte has approximately 5.7 million within 100 miles. Detroit, also which is not on your list, has more population within 100 miles of its city center than Charlotte does. So does Houston. And so does Atlanta.
1. Philadelphia (includes New York, Baltimore, Allentown, etc) --- 31.7 mil
2. New York (includes Philadelphia, Bridgeport, New Haven, etc) – 29.1 mil
3. Los Angeles (includes Riverside-San Bernardino, Oxnard, Santa Barbara, etc) --- 18.2 mil
4. Chicago (includes Milwaukee, Rockford, South Bend, etc) --- 12.8 mil
5. Washington (includes Baltimore, Richmond, Harrisburg, etc) --- 11.2 mil
6. San Francisco (includes Sacramento, San Jose, Stockton, etc) --- 11.2 mil
7. Boston (includes Providence, Hartford, Worcester, etc) --- 9.6 mil
8. Detroit (includes Cleveland, Toledo, Lansing, etc) --- 9.2 mil
9. Atlanta (includes Columbus, Macon, Athens, etc) --- 7.1 mil
10. Dallas (includes Fort Worth, Waco, Sherman) --- 6.8 mil
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