Via PLANetizen:
- The Los Angeles area is the most densely populated metropolitan area in the country. Surprise! San Francisco/Oakland and San Jose are #2 and #3. (Why they are counted separately, I don’t know.) New York/Newark (which also includes parts of Connecticut) is #4.
- A climatologist says that sprawl in Dublin, Ireland has resulted in its average temperature increasing less over the past three decades than other European cities.