Urban Cores

[pvenne]

Are you multilingual, with something other than english as your native language?

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nope, i guess i just dont write well without a dictionary/thesaurus, and i usually dont skim my posts before i enter them....is that why you ask? typing too fast makes it look like i dont speak good english, but i am an honest to God good conversationalist, i swear

p.s. when i wrote that long pst above, i just ogt in from a night of drinking downtown, and though i wasnt trashed, i had to take a cab home, so...im sure when i re-read it tomorrow its gonna sound retarded...how funny is it that i come home drunk and start posting urbanplanet discussions about economics at 2:30am, i am just so absorbed by this site, i cant stop checking it threoughout the day....are you multi lingual? i think i am starting to understand tagalog (my gfs parents native toungue) slowly but surely....its a necessity to know what theyre saying...haha. goodnight everyone, im gonna crash.

[TheBostonian]

nope, i guess i just dont write well without a dictionary/thesaurus, and i usually dont skim my posts before i enter them....is that why you ask? typing too fast makes it look like i dont speak good english, but i am an honest to God good conversationalist, i swear   

p.s. when i wrote that long pst above, i just ogt in from a night of drinking downtown, and though i wasnt trashed, i had to take a cab home, so...im sure when i re-read it tomorrow its gonna sound retarded...how funny is it that i come home drunk and start posting urbanplanet discussions about economics at 2:30am, i am just so absorbed by this site, i cant stop checking it threoughout the day....are you multi lingual?  i think i am starting to understand tagalog (my gfs parents native toungue) slowly but surely....its a necessity to know what theyre saying...haha.  goodnight everyone, im gonna crash.

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Just english and the typical little bit of spanish here.

[BostonFaker]

dixie, I am not so naive to think there is no cohorting going on, but I am not too much of a conspiracy theorist to think the market won't work.

[Cotuit]

Cotuit went all the way with this or at least found info that goes all the way.

Look at the last post on this page:

http://www.urbanplanet.org/forums/index.ph...pic=1321&st=210

"Greater Boston - Area=619.49 - Population=2,443,374 - Density=3944"

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Duh, I've been looking all over for that!

However, in 2000*, Houston had 1,953,633 people in 617 square miles. If Boston swallowed up it's neighbours to grow to Houston's area, it would be...

City{sodEmoji.{sodEmoji.|}}Town/Area/Population*

Arlington/5.18/42389

Avon /4.35/4443

Belmont/4.59/24194

Boston/43.68/589141/13487.6 Density

Braintree/13.7/ 33828

Brockton/21.37/94304

Brookline/ 6.62/57107

Burlington /11.84/22876

Cambridge/6.25/101355

Canton/19.01/20775

Chelsea/1.86/35080

Cohasset/9.86/7261

Dedham/10.05/23464

Dover/15.16/5558

Everett/3.36/38037

Hingham/22.46/19882

Holbrook/7.3/10785

Hull/ 2.43/11050

Lexington/16.48/30355

Lincoln/14.56/8056

Lynn/10.47/89050

Lynnfield/10.22/11542

Malden/5.08/56340

Marblehead/4.4/20377

Medford/8.21/55765

Melrose/4.73/27134

Milton/13.1/26062

Nahant/1.04/3632

Natick/14.88/32170

Needham/12.5/28911

Newton/17.9/83829

Norwell/20.97/ 9765

Norwood/10.47/28587

Peabody/16.45/48129

Quincy/16.5/88025

Randolph/10.08/30963

Reading/9.84/23708

Revere/5.95/47283

Salem/7.99/40407

Saugus/10.58/26078

Scituate/16.9/17863

Somerville/3.93/77478

Stoneham/6.03/22219

Stoughton/16.25/27149

Swampscott/3.08/14412

Wakefield/7.35/24804

Waltham/12.41/59226

Watertown/4.06/32986

Wayland/15.92/13100

Wellesley/10.05/26613

Weston/17.17/11469

Westwood/11.15/14117

Weymouth/16.7/53988

Whitman/6.7/13882

Winchester/5.9/20810

Winthrop/1.56/18303

Woburn/12.86/37258

TOTALS 

Greater Boston  - Area=619.49 - Population=2,443,374 - Density=3944

Houston - Area=617 - Population=1,953,633 - Density=3166

*I could only get 2000 figures for all cities and towns.

What does all this prove? Absolutely nothing. A city's size is but one way to classify it.

PS: Here's what Boston would look like if it were the size of Houston:

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[dixiecupdrinking]

Nice work, Cotuit -- that map is especially great! Just imagine if people from Scituate to Natick to Marblehead all had "Boston" addresses. What a great depiction of the difference between "urban" and "city." All that the term "city" tells you about newer metros is what kind of government an area has.