I know they have much more extensive commuter/suburban rail networks than we do here. I'm skeptical that this accounts for the entire difference though. Any guesses?
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Toronto is near the Australian cities. I’d guess the main difference is gas taxes, and thus gas prices.
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Those numbers look bogus. NYC: 27,016 ppl/sq mi, 259 hectares per sq mi = 104 people /hectare, not 20 as on the graph. Guess they are doing metro population density? How to make that consistent? Eastern 2/3 of Suffolk County, not really part of metro NYC.
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They must be, but that should blow back on places like LA 1000 times harder if you've seen how much area is in San Bernadino County. I'm assuming they used a finer-grain urban boundary, like this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_urban_areas …
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hm thought that page had a map--these things: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_urban_area#/media/File:USA-Urban-Areas.svg …
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That leaves the definition kind of free floating. What light density areas (parks, undeveloped land, farms) get included and what gets excluded? How is something like swampy islands in Jamaica Bay counted?
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It’s hard to look at some frankly rural horse farm/forested suburban areas and call them part of a dense nearby metro just because rich people live there and commute in. This is a peculiar American luxury distorting the results.
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Average density might be the same but what does the density distribution look like? Ie Australian cities might have denser cores.
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- do they? serious question, I haven't seen comparable data for AU vs US cores - core might be one thing, but the residential neighborhoods in AU look to be mostly single family detached houses with lawns & driveways on wide roads, like in USA
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Climate has a lot to do with that difference probably
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