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A map that has been making the rounds on the internet demonstrates how you can fit 7 major U.S. cities plus New York’s most famous borough within Los Angeles city limits.

 

So Los Angeles is big, but, LA’s spatial extent is in part due to it’s history with transportation (ripped out the streetcars to let the automobile and freeway take over).  How do density and transportation affect cities? 

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