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Originally Posted by BigDipper 80
You definitely see a lot more "hard edges" out west than you do in the midwest and east. In the older metros, the sprawl just gets thinner and thinner before eventually petering out but in California, Arizona and a few other states, it's all pretty much the same density as you move out from the center until it just sort of stops.
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Yeah, cities out west tend to have WAY less ultra-low density "country sprawl" out in their hinterlands. metro areas out there often end more abruptly, with harder edges where development just stops. One of the more extreme examples being vegas where there are places with 7,500 ppsm tightly packed suburban subdivisions directly abutting wide open desert wilderness.
with a few exceptions like miami, cities in the east have a way more gradual urban bleed on their peripheries, which does drag density figures down, even weighted ones.
take a look at tract density maps of detroit and vegas. do you see all of those shades of green around metro detroit?
that's all "country sprawl", vegas has very little of it by comparison. it just goes straight into mostly uninhabited yellow.