Los Angeles is friggin' BIG!!

[Zkribbler]

Everyone knows that the City of Los Angeles is the second largest city in American. That's nothing new.

But I just learned some mind boggling facts about L.A. County.

We're not only the most populous county in the nation, but if we were divided in half, we'd almost be the two largest counties in the nation.

We have more people than 43 states.

In the next twenty years, we're expected to add the equivalent of the City of Chicago to our population.

--But what I don't understand is why all 9.9 million Angelenoes have to be in front of me on the freeway and be going really slow!

[JohnT]

By 1910, 1 out of every 8 cars in America was registered in Los Angeles county.

[DRoseDARs]

Re: Los Angeles is friggin' BIG!!

Originally posted by Zkribbler
--But what I don't understand is why all 9.9 million Angelenoes have to be in front of me on the freeway and be going really slow!

Drive in reverse. Problem solved.

[Winston]

Isn't it L.A. that has a governing council of only 5 people, with a chance of substitution about equal to that of the U.S. Supreme Court?

[Zkribbler]

Re: Re: Los Angeles is friggin' BIG!!

Originally posted by DRoseDARs
Drive in reverse. Problem solved.

My god, DRoseDARs, you must have an IQ of 200,000! You are a genius!!!

[Hot Mustard]

And yet LA is only the 37th largest city in the world - by large margins too.

Seoul, the largest, is almost three times the size of LA!

[JohnT]

If you have a chance, pick up Sir Peter Hall's Cities in Civilization from the library and read the section on Los Angeles. He explains how it introduced the car culture to the world from the very beginnings in the early 1900's and discusses in depth the development of the "freeway" system of roads.

He isn't a nutter and effectively slams shuts any conspiracy theories about GM destroying the trollies by analyzing Henry Huntington's rate of returns from 1901 to 1930, showing that the decline in the trollies revenues and profitability started in the 1910's, even before GM was a corporate entity.

[Japher]

LA sucks

I hate

Es Loco

[JohnT]

Originally posted by dejon
And yet LA is only the 37th largest city in the world - by large margins too.

Seoul, the largest, is almost three times the size of LA!

Los Angeles County has 10,000,000 people in it. You're talking about the city limits, which only includes 1/3 of the county.

Also considered part of "metro LA" is Riverside County (1,900,000) and Orange County (3,000,000) for a total of 14,900,000 people for LA proper.

[Lul Thyme]

If you read carefully there is a link for the same calculations for Urban Areas.

http://www.citymayors.com/features/urban_areas1.html

Now LA is in 12th position with 12.2 millions, a third of a city like Tokyo using similar principle...

[Datajack Franit]

My god, DRoseDARs, you must have an IQ of 200,000! You are a genius!!!

Now that cracked me up

[Jon Miller]

When did Mexico city fall to 2nd? I remember it being first for a long time.

JM

[Winston]

About the same time East L.A. started growing.

[JohnT]

Since they redefined "Tokyo" to mean "1/5th of Japan".

[Grandpa Troll]

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