terra non firma

hey - we're a model!

after yesterday's post that the rest of the world looks more like LA these days, and tim's comment suggesting that may not be a bad thing, comes today's article in the washington post - we're the densest! and I'm not referring to the born-and-bred blond angeleno who recently insisted hong kong was in japan. no, according to the wapo, LA embodies a fairly recent (but growing) paradox: densely packed sprawl. and I am nothing if not good at summarizing the data:

• Los Angeles has become the most densely populated place in the continental United States - 25 percent higher than that of New York, twice that of Washington and four times that of Atlanta, as measured by residents per square mile of urban land.
• Ten of the country's 15 most densely populated metro areas are in the West, where residents move to newly developed land at triple the per-acre density of any other part of the country.

otherwise, an absorbing account of density both good and bad - land fill reuse, orange county development, immigrant poverty. a good read.

posted by marissa @ 9:49 AM