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George Marshall
@GJMarshy
🌏People wanted Asian cities to be compared to European ones. These are just a handful of course. Any more and you break the scale of human intuition. Paris is the densest city in Western Europe. It's dwarfed by most of these. And Tokyo is... interesting?
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@eniramig
Yes, Tokyo center is not residential. Government buildings, offices and the Emperor's house. Workers commute by train around 1hr. Kind of sprawling. Or..... an aristocratification?
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George Marshall
@GJMarshy
It’s an incredible city either way. Fact is it’s so big that this metric can’t capture it given just how far it sprawls. It feels like a network of cities combined into one mega city over a huge area. Very different!
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@3RenChengHu
Something's off about the Tokyo data. It gives the density for the 23 wards of urban Tokyo (pop. 10M), but gives the population of a much larger, less dense area that includes some neighboring prefectures. I don't know exactly what definition they're using, but I don't think
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Antoni Prus
@antoni_prus
I always thought that Barcelona was the most densely populated city in Europe. It certainly has 7 or 8 out of 10 most densely populated 1km2 in Europe
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@gmalcolms7
This does not look right for Tokyo, as Yokohama is less than 40km from the "center" of Tokyo (wherever that is suppsedly) and its population is large enough that you would expect to see a sizable bump more than 20 km out.
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ZaxxonGalaxian
@ZaxxonGalaxian
There’s no single center in Tokyo, it’s several mini-downtowns. (Mini still being huge by US standards.). And the Imperial Palace is in a large park in the center of the city that’s off-limits.
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causeiexist
@causeiexist
Im surprised by the Chinese cities, by a lot. Not at all surprised by Tokyo. Already understood it's a city that lacks the very highest tiers of density but has a truly immense amount of square miles in the density level just below that (think 10-39k/sqmi
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ironchefbuu
@ironchefbuu
Nobody lives in Chiyoda-ku around Tokyo station or Ginza. It’s all office buildings and shopping. And the imperial palace takes a large amount of real estate in the middle of Tokyo.
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Jersey Lee
@real_jerseylee
How is it possible for Ho Chi Minh to have more people than Shanghai but consistently lower density across all distances?
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Arshad Karim
@arshad_esq
I think Tokyo’s population density distribution actually makes sense—in central business districts, you have more office and commercial properties than residential properties, so your density based on residents would actually be lower than surrounding areas.
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