Urban Geography: Why We Live Where We Do | Wendover Productions
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Urban Geography: Why We Live Where We Do | Wendover Productions

B2Upper-intermediateNovember 14, 202614 min
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New York's is 56,000 people per square mile while New York's is only 27,000 people per

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This is Wendover Productions, sponsored by The Great Courses Plus. Here's an interesting question. Which city do you think is more dense? Paris, France, or New York, United States?

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It probably seems obvious. New York, the land of skyscrapers, the Big Apple. Right? Wrong.

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New York, in fact, has a population density of less than half that of Paris. New York's is 56,000 people per square mile while New York's is only 27,000 people per square mile. To find a European city with a comparable population density to New York's, the densest

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