Interesting graphs and charts department

[Lamplighter]

I'm still having a hard time with that link's description of LA.
It seems to be based on a sub-link to the following article...

Measuring Sprawl
A New Index, Recent Trends, and Future Research
Urban Affairs Review Thomas Laidley 33/2/15

... In fact, six of the top 10 least sprawling metros in the country are in California:
L.A., San Francisco, San Jose, Salinas, Santa Barbara and San Diego.
Seven of ten are on the West Coast. Outside of that, Chicago ranks seventh and,
also surprisingly, auto-oriented Miami is tenth.

The East Coast metros of Philadelphia, Boston and D.C. all fail to make the top 10 list.

I'm not quite believing this either.
It just doesn't fit what I remember about LA, SF, SJ and SD,
as compared with Chicago and Boston from my lifetime living
and working in or around those areas.

I'd love to be on this sociology student's Doctorial Thesis Committee.
[OJ] If it doesn't fit, you can't convict. [/OJ]