Aside from all the explanations, I was fascinated that this area is about half the density of places in NYC, Barcelona or Paris. And a quarter of the highest densities in the world.
by londonskater
Aside from all the explanations, I was fascinated that this area is about half the density of places in NYC, Barcelona or Paris. And a quarter of the highest densities in the world.
by londonskater
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Damn. Very interesting. Thanks for sharing 🙂
Wow i randomly clicked not expecting to find out i live in the most densely populated kilometre square of the UK! Actually I am just cut off from their final/best guess estimate at the very end. But just near my house, the old victorian gasworks below the cemetery which likely brought the figure down are being developed into big residential blocks with more than 1.4k new homes, so I expect i’d shot back in the square in the next 2 years.
It does make sense, it is a very residential with a lot of ex social housing, big 1950s/60s blocks, family with lots of kids, multigenerational Pakistani homes etc. The victorian homes that WW2 did not destroyed, the 60’s ans 70’s overheated urban planners took care of bulldozing.
It’s historically always been cramped since the end of the 19th century. As evidenced by the cemetery which got overcrowded in only a couple of decades.
General area around Langdon Park is what I expected so happy a bit and unsurprised to see it not too far off!
>!Bow in East London with a population of approximately 24,000 in a single square kilometre!<
Interesting to see that Bow has this density with lots of blocks of flats, some high rises etc, while Upton Park where I live seems to be almost exclusively Victorian 2-3 beds with some low rise flats added in. Would be interesting to overlay the number of ‘homes’ with the population density.
I have seen previously an article say maida hill is the most densely populated place in the uk, so it’s interesting that it comes up as second in your research
i used to live in that square. Worth noting that a huge proportion of the development there happened in the last couple of decades. Before that, there were quite a few voids – bomb sites, mainly.
I lived on Burgess Street. Never thought of it as particularly dense or congested certainly not compared to lower Manhattan
Now I think about it it does feel tighter than where I currently live in Islington but I didn’t exactly feel surrounded by people all the time