Which of these countries has the best municipal format? (user search)
       |           

Welcome, Guest. Please login or register.
Did you miss your activation email?
June 03, 2024, 03:51:06 AM
News: Election Simulator 2.0 Released. Senate/Gubernatorial maps, proportional electoral votes, and more - Read more

  Talk Elections
  General Politics
  International General Discussion (Moderators: afleitch, Hash)
  Which of these countries has the best municipal format? (search mode)
Pages: [1]
Poll
Question: Which of these countries has the best municipal format?
#1
US
 
#2
Canada
 
#3
Australia
 
Show Pie Chart
Partisan results

Total Voters: 7

Author Topic: Which of these countries has the best municipal format?  (Read 1046 times)
I spent the winter writing songs about getting better
BRTD
Atlas Prophet
*****
Posts: 113,437
Ukraine


Political Matrix
E: -6.50, S: -6.67

P P
« on: July 09, 2010, 12:33:39 AM »

US - We all know it, big cities surrounded by sprawly suburbs. Sometimes the suburbs grow to be pretty big themselves (like Plano, TX or those -dale places in Arizona), but usually remain about medium sized and far smaller than the cities. Plus even smaller exurbs around them.

Canada - Same sized cities roughly, but the suburban areas aren't a patchwork of municipalities generally. Rather all the suburban areas are collected into large geographical municipalities. Hence you can end up with places like Richmond Hill and Pickering, Ontario which have populations in six digits but have low population densities and basically no real downtown or population center from what I can see. Essentially what would be suburban counties in the US.

Australia - Basically no real cities besides the downtown. Almost everyone lives in what's technically suburbs. And they tend to be really small, only the city centers as mentioned have populations in five digits. Essentially what classify as neighborhoods in the US.

I'd say Canada since it's the best for controlling sprawl if the local government wants to do so. I don't like the Australia model since it makes it difficult to distinguish who the actual urbanites and suburbanites are, although Minneapolis is kind of arranged in accordance with it with all its defined neighborhoods. But I think it's kind of silly that Minneapolis would be split into almost 60 separate cities if it were in Australia.
Logged
I spent the winter writing songs about getting better
BRTD
Atlas Prophet
*****
Posts: 113,437
Ukraine


Political Matrix
E: -6.50, S: -6.67

P P
« Reply #1 on: July 09, 2010, 10:43:30 AM »

No fantasy map needed for Minneapolis:

Logged
Pages: [1]  
Jump to:  


Login with username, password and session length

Terms of Service - DMCA Agent and Policy - Privacy Policy and Cookies

Powered by SMF 1.1.21 | SMF © 2015, Simple Machines

Page created in 0.03 seconds with 14 queries.