Comment by hunterpayne
3 hours ago
Paris actually isn't that dense compared to some US cities. NYC for example has far more people in the same space as Paris. Not that that is a goal to shoot for but there you go. That being said, at the moment Paris isn't a very nice place to be with all the smoke and looting and all.
That's not really true. Paris (intra-muros) has ~53,000 people per square mile[1] which is quite high. Manhattan is a fair bit denser at ~74,000 per square mile[2] but NYC's next densest borough of Brooklyn has only ~39,000[3]. And nothing else in the US comes anywhere close; the next densest city is SF which only hits ~18,000[4]
Even if you go beyond the city proper, a number of the Paris banlieues are similarly dense and I think most of the most populous ones are like twice as dense as SF (which, again, is America's second-densest city).
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cities_proper_by_popul... [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manhattan [3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brooklyn [4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Francisco