Location, Location, Location
By Mitch Berg
If you packed the entire world’s population together equal to the densities of some of the world’s major cities, how much area would that entire population cover?
This, and many other questions, are answered among the “40 Maps that will Help you Make Sense of the World”

This stuff is like crack to me.





August 19th, 2013 at 8:05 am
And if we had the entire population of the world living squeezed into the area represented by Houston’s density, there would be those who would still not be satisfied until we looked like Paris.
August 19th, 2013 at 9:55 am
Proof that urban sprawl is bad. Use the New York model, pack everybody into Texas and light rail finally would pay for itself.