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Originally Posted by dc_denizen
oh really?
fact: manhattan and the city of paris have (roughly) the same population density
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Manhattan is higher density than Paris, but it's a poor comparison, because, again, most high density neighborhoods aren't in the regional cores of either city.
Both Manhattan and Paris have their lowest density neighborhoods in the most central neighborhoods, because their cores are heavily commercial, and many of the residents are seasonal or transient.
The West Bronx, Western Queens, and parts of Brooklyn have the majority of high density tracts in NYC. The highest density neighborhood in NYC, the Upper East Side, is in Manhattan, though. That's probably the highest density Western first world neighborhood.
The highest density neighborhood in Paris is in NE Paris, and is basically analogous to Western Queens (packed in working class immigrant area).
The rich neighborhoods of Paris have significantly lower density than the rich neighborhoods of NYC (compare, say the Upper West Side to Paris' 6th or 7th), so that's maybe where you get the impression that NYC has significantly higher density.