Comments by "" (@josephfisher426) on "Is Europe Sprawling?" video.

  1. There will be value choices in any selection of what the controlling variable is. I understand the criticism of the method... however, what they did reduces the significance of outliers like NYC or London.
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  2. Europe benefits in comparisons like this from having been originally laid out for completely human-scaled transportation. Is it compact, no, but in a space much smaller than the US.
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  3. If the greenbelt is a 90 minute transit ride away, not sure how much good it does for urban folks. Open space needs to be reserved everywhere, and that is not something that cities did until about 1900, and even then it was spotty.
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  4.  @bbukkegayo  Using logarithms to exaggerate small differences between large numbers is tough to do, but I guess statistics can meet any challenge!
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