Originally Posted by
PlanoFuji
Compare the open space available to the same population (about 1.6 million) in Providence MSA (urban area) Who has more open space those in Manhattan who have a total land area of 23 square miles or those in Providence with a total of about 1600 square miles?
The state of New York has a lot of rural areas, consisting of areas like farmland, pastureland, privately held forest land, state and national parks, and so on. And based on your numbers, that includes 1577 square miles of rural land that didn’t have to be carved up into endless subdvisions, because the 1,600,000 people of Manhattan collectively decided they only need to occupy 1.4% of that amount of space.