This morning we celebrate a bit of Kansas City cowtown data that can be confirmed by taking a walk within the loop on a Tuesday night.
Lots of charts and statistical analysis reveal this fact of life:
Show-Me: Kansas City has a low population density for a city its size.
Here are the most important money quotes:
"In terms of population density, Kansas City had roughly 2,326 residents per square mile, making it the 129th densest city in the country, just ahead of Poughkeepsie, N.Y. (population 670,000)."
As usual, the closer we get to city hall, the worse things get:
"Only around 216,000 residents live less than five miles from city hall, whereas the average city of Kansas City’s metro population has close to 400,000 residents living within the first five miles"
Again, this isn't a new fact and it follows a trend that Kansas City has seen for nearly two decades of consistent job loss that has yet to significantly improve.
It's not all bleak . . . On this cold day, remember Summer glory days and some joking at this town's expense that make all of the diehard cheerleaders bristle:
The Onion: Empty Streets In Kansas City Not Necessarily Indicative Of Royals World Series Game Being On
The fact remains . . . Kansas City toy train streetcar hype about "density" is nothing more than research consultant jargon invented to power election season lies. The only thing worse is real estate market devastation caused by one developer after the next speculating and inflating property values to price out longtime residents . . . The only real justice here is the (relatively) free market has consistently thwarted the schemes of so many suits who ALWAYS make the mistake of believing their own lies.
Developing . . .
This number includes acres and acres of farms, pastures and woods up north, near Knobtown and along M-150 Highway. Tony your statistic is useless.
ReplyDeleteCorrection,...I was referring to the first number not the five miles from downtown number.
ReplyDeleteKansas City was hemmed in by the bluffs of the Little Blue River and valley causing the city to leap frog to the Blue Ridge. Also the northland near the Missouri River has many steep ridges breaking up development. Johnson county is fairly flat and easy to develop.
ReplyDeleteWestport/plaza is as dense most urban areas outside the Northeast and Great Lake states.
ReplyDeleteMidtown-Urban Core is starting to feel like living in a sardine can regardless.
ReplyDeleteThat picture looks strangely like the Plaza.... Pretty spooky, I'd say.
ReplyDeleteShockingly, the Pay Me Institute (of 2) is playing fast and loose with facts and skewing data...and the lemmings of Tony's Johnson county are lapping it up.
ReplyDeleteKC's urban core is very similar in density to every other mid-sized midwestern city, and the urbanized area is smack dab in the middle of the pack for density.
And Mensa boy cherry picks the facts to suit his narrative. Again.
ReplyDeleteThe thousands of building permits for single-family homes and the continued growth throughout the metro show how few people worship at the alter of urban "density".
ReplyDeleteWant to tent downtown, fine.
Facts tell you that of over 2.5 million residents in the metro, only around 20,000 live in downtown KCMO.
Even other parts of the city are fed up with all the focus on the downtown amusement park, much less other people throughout the region.
And the urban futurists and academics who earn their livings writing books and hitting the lecture circuit telling everyone around the country what they desperately need to be trendy and don't want to be left behind will be coming up with something brand new in a year or two.
It might even be living on a farm!
CLEVARCK with a late evening cut and paste at 9:09!
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ReplyDeleteWTF? What's up with the 670,000 citation on Poughkeepsie's population? It's barely over 30,000.
ReplyDelete9:09: The urban mythologists only get the "downtown" population up to 20,000 by counting everyone north of 31st, and 31st ain't downtown.
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