Largest urban structure on Earth

03/10/2011 | WesternCulture

[WesternCulture]

The Blue Banana:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_banana

The Eastern Seaboard:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_Coast_of_the_United_States

Île-de-France:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%8Ele-de-France_(region)

Florence, Italy:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florence

[GQuagmire]

[cripplecreek]

I share an opinion of cities with Thomas Jefferson.

[WesternCulture]

Beautiful!

[Moose4]

Realistically, the “Eastern Seaboard Conurbation” drops out south of Petersburg, Virginia. In fact, the Richmond-Washington I-95 corridor isn’t fully urbanized yet, there’s still about 35 miles of relatively empty space between Richmond and Fredericksburg. (North of Fredericksburg, though, all bets are off—it’s been absorbed into the greater Washington area. Stonewall Jackson would weep.)

}:-)4

[fr_freak]

[Retired Greyhound]

Yup, the DC/Baltimore/Philly/Jersey/NY/CT/Boston corridor is pretty big

[WesternCulture]

“I share an opinion of cities with Thomas Jefferson.”

- What did Jefferson say on that subject?

Please enlighten me.

[free me]

Chianti wine, fresh pane toscano (tuscan bread baked without salt) and pecorino cheese
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This post is making me hungry.

[WesternCulture]

A great image.

Thanks for posting.

[JimSEA]

City dwellers are totally dependent for their survival on people they look down on and who they ridicule. At an inevitable time of chaos and disaster, which people are most likely to survive?? Who is ultimately smarter?

[The KG9 Kid]

"... Personally, I've always loved big cities"

Me too, but I'm glad I no longer live in them.

Mainly being from Los Angeles for most of my life with 10 years spent in San Francisco, I now prefer the remote Western US mountain town lifestyle.

But until I'd actually seen New York City and explored it, I really hadn't known what a metropolis really means. New York City convinced me that it remains the uncontested center of Western Civilization -- no insult to Paris or Rome intended.

San Francisco is just the miniature golf course version of Manhattan, and that's being generous.

[the_devils_advocate_666]

Zooming in on North vs. South Korea...

[tophat9000]

As a guy from Los Angeles I find this odd to say the largest "cityscape" found on Earth is the Eastern Seaboard Conurbation of the United States of America

The first time I was on the east coast I was expecting to see just what this story states ... a continuity "cityscape" ......

I was shocked as just how much open space you found on the east coast...you get out of the city and your in the sticks

So Cal is just one continuity suburban sprawl ...far more than I saw on the East Coast...that really surprised me

[cornfedcowboy]

I was surprised to see the lights are still on in Detroit.

[cripplecreek]

"The mobs of great cities add just so much to support of pure government as sores do to the strength of the human body,"

-Thomas Jefferson.

[Age of Reason]

I share an opinion of cities with Thomas Jefferson.

ditto and them some.

[Age of Reason]

Looks like the only really habitable place left is Alaska.

[cripplecreek]

I live in the next county over from the arrogant parasite of Ann Arbor. They sneer and call Jackson county “Jacksatucky” as they demand more taxpayer money to support them.