Posts tagged Metropolitan Areas
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National links: Senior LA Metro official compares bus, bike lanes to the wrongs of highway construction
LA Metro’s Chief Innovation Officer questions approaches to community engagement for bike and bus lane projects. Mesa, AZ is the world’s first Autism Certified City. How Houston hopes to gain more control over its MPO. Keep reading…
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Combined, Washington-Baltimore now outsizes Chicago as America’s third largest metropolis
If enough people commute from one nearby region to another, the two areas can be considered one Combined Statistical Area (CSA). According to that method, 2021 Census estimates show the Washington-Baltimore CSA surpassing Chicago’s population for the first time. Keep reading…
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How do we define our region? Here are some ways to look at it.
Is Fredericksburg part of Greater Washington? How about Frederick? Defining our region is tricky – and a little whimsical –but here are some ways we can look at it. Keep reading…
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Urban areas represent what cities really are. See them with this map.
How do you compare the population of cities across the country, correcting for the randomness of political borders? You can't use official city populations, and metropolitan areas are only a little better. Here's a better method. Keep reading…
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We’re #3: Has the DC-Baltimore region’s population surpassed Chicago’s?
Greater Washington may already be the country's third-most-populous region, according to new population projections from the Census Bureau. Under the bureau's broadest definition of a metropolitan area, called a “Combined Statistical Area,” the Washington-Baltimore area was just shy of the Chicago region as of July 2017. Keep reading…