The ten largest MSAs in 1960 (SMSA for everything except Chicago and New York, which are CMSAs) with current rank in parentheses. New York (1) Chicago (3) Los Angeles (within a whisker of Chicago) (2) Philadelphia (5) Detroit (11) San Francisco (13) Boston (10) Pittsburgh (!!) (22) St. Louis (18) Washington (8) San Francisco is [...]
Just for grins, I looked to see how the ten largest cities around the time I was born have changed in terms of rank. The top ten in 1960 and their current rank: New York (still # 1) Chicago (now 3) Los Angeles (now 2) Philadelphia (now 5) Detroit (now 18) Baltimore (now 21) Houston [...]
I haven't blogged in awhile, so I am catching up a little.... Paul Krugman writes two blog posts about rail, one of which I like, and one of which I don't. This one is, I think, correct: Oh, boy — this George Will column (via Grist) is truly bizarre: So why is America’s “win the [...]
Mumbai is among the densest cities in the world: as a metropolitan area, it is roughly ten times denser than New York (h/t Alain Bertaud). Yet residential zoning codes typically have FSIs (the equivalent of a floor-area ratio) of between 1 and 1.33. This compares with typical central business district FSIs of between 5 and 15 [...]