Is Ed Glaeser using average, rather than weighted, densities???? China ropes HUGE swaths of the countryside into its "cities" @tylercowen https://twitter.com/Noahpinion/status/794339053659299840 …
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Replying to @i_contemplate_
More than 90% of the "city" of Beijing is rural. They just agglomerate so they can claim to have the world's largest cities
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Replying to @MarketUrbanism
How can a city be rural? I mean any sort of agglomeration cannot be rural right? It would be at least suburban/semiurban?
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Replying to @i_contemplate_
What they claim is the city of Beijing is not far off from the size of Connecticut, which has plenty of rural areas
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So you can't compare it to NYC, which is much more tightly defined, and includes no rural land whatsoever
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Hahahaha okay thanks. That's ridiculous
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