"These numbers are shaped by commute patterns and geographic features rather than municipal boundaries. But they make sense to people who see in them an affirmation of how the West Coast has evolved since the 1800s.
That's different than such regions as greater New York, which has 18.35 million people in its urbanized area. The 3,450- square-mile area is centered on the vertical island of Manhattan - but it also takes in much of Long Island and forested swaths of Connecticut, areas that feel remote but in fact are tied directly to the core.
"What defines 'urban areas' is not density per se, or residential units, but an integrated job market," said Gregory Ingram, president of the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy in Cambridge, Mass. "Think about the spectrum of (types of) places. ... We have clear ideas of what's at either end, but the suburbs kind of muddy things up."
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What this in fact says is that the suburban areas surrounding the municipal areas in California Cities are more dense than areas like Long Island, Connecticut and Westchester.
It doesnt really tell you how dense NYC is vs Los Angeles. It tells you how densly populated the NYC metropolitan area is versus the greater Los Angeles metropolitan area.
But to say "California Cities are more dense than NYC" is misleading in my humble opinion.
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