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Paris “city” is just the most heavily urbanized central core of a massive metropolitan area. The urban part of which is 1,101.7 sq mi.

I’m not sure about Barcelona but San Francisco is pretty much like Paris in that way (just way leas dense).

It’s really not a fair comparison.

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Paris the city is the city, if you're building a new city you build the city and the unincorporated areas around you grow on their own.

If they're going to just build another The Woodlands (x2, they have twice this much land too) this isn't a very ambitious and transformative project, it's just a big fancy housing development with a Mayor and City Council instead of an HOA.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Woodlands,_Texas

You can’t expect the urban core of an entirely town to be even remotely as dense as that or a 10+ million city.

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