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Originally Posted by Steely Dan
^ the miami UA was listed as being 1,238.6 sq. miles back in 2010, so there is surely a way to carve out a houston-sized 640 sq. mile chink out of that. you just have to keep following the urban development northward up into broward county.
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I don't think it would be fair. Houston, for instance, doesn't/didn't necessarily choose the densest tracts of land to annex.
I'd keep everything inside Miami-Dade. Leave Broward to a Houstonized Fort Lauderdale.
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Houstonizing Britain:
London and four neighbouring districts: 9,430,533 inh. in 1,735 km²
Birmingham: 3,339,917 inh. in 1,659 km²
Manchester: 3,240,225 inh. in 1,735 km²
Leeds-Bradford: 2,298,495 inh. in 1,779 km²
Liverpool-Blackpool: 2,220,567 inh. in 1,735 km²
Glasgow: 1,787,400 inh. in 1,827 km²
Newcastle: 1,654,722 inh. in 1,670 km²
Sheffield: 1,622,200 inh. in 1,894 km²
Nottingham-Derby: 1,539,559 inh. in 1,662 km²
Cardiff: 1,309,824 inh. in 1,709 km²
Bristol: 1,286,516 inh. in 1,788 km²
Leicester: 1,015,727 inh. in 1,675 km²
Edinburgh: 912,490 inh. in 1,724 km²
Belfast: 794,824 inh. in 1,665 km²