
I was doing some geeky math, prompted by Shane Keaney’s graphic envisioning the entire population of the U.S. living at Brooklyn-level densities in a space the size of New Hamphire. This submitted to on-line thumbsucker magazine Good.
The actual conception of packing 310 million people into a Mega-Brooklyn, personally, sounds like a dystopian hell. And normally would be portrayed as such, but Keaney’s blurb seems to indicate he’s a typical sheltered Williamsberger, critical reasoning skills damaged by NPR.
Anyway, I thought the idea was pretty interesting, especially thinking about how sparsely populated America really is (especially considering the doom-mongering when 300 million population was passed a few years ago.) And I just wondered what the American Mega-City would look like at more civilized densities.
For example, at Omaha-level density, all of America could fit into Wyoming. Or we could all enjoy L.A. living in the same space that Indiana takes.
mitch :: Jun.25.2010 ::
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