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BRTD
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« on: July 09, 2010, 12:33:39 AM » |
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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.
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