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Originally Posted by 10023
San Francisco has a population density of just over 18k ppsm. Hammersmith & Fulham, a residential borough of London that is mostly leafy and green, is at 28k ppsm. Part of the difference is narrower streets and good public transit. But that compares to 85k ppsm in Manhattan or 35k ppsm in Brooklyn.
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You're comparing apples to apple slices here. Complete cities contain all sorts of less-populous land uses that mere residential districts of larger cities do not.
The City and County of San Francisco had an average population density of 18,451 persons per square mile in 2015, in an area with significant non-residential uses: nearly 20% of SF's total land area is devoted to open space and parkland--some
5,693 of the city's total 29,000 acres; SF contains one of this hemisphere's most extensive and substantial office/commercial cores; large swathes of land have been given over to maritime and industrial uses, medical, governmental and correctional facilities, utilities, etc.
The densities at which San Franciscans actually live, where they live, are much higher than the citywide average you're using to compare with a primarily residential borough of London. It's not an apt comparison.
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