US Metros running out of land?

probably la.

Miami is probably the closest to running out of land. Assuming they don't allow the boundary to stretch further into the swamps.

There's plenty of room around Fargo.

new orleans...........hoo hoo hoo hoo

honolulu

hudkina said:

Miami is probably the closest to running out of land. Assuming they don't allow the boundary to stretch further into the swamps.

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Miami is pretty much already out of land. There is a little bit left on the southern edge of the area around Homestead, but aside from that there's nothing left in Miami-Dade or Broward Counties. The only direction for growth (other than up) is stretching the area farther north. Miami all the way up to West Palm Beach is already one conjoined mass but its beginning to spread even farther north.

I would say Los Angeles, and Miami as well. L.A. is blocked by mountains in the north, desert in the west, and a military base in the south, but somehow I think they will find a way to sprawl towards San Diego.

las vegas will be reaching their limit within the next decade. it's only a matter of time for a city surrounded by mountains.

chicagogeorge said:

I would say Los Angeles, and Miami as well. L.A. is blocked by mountains in the north, desert in the west, and a military base in the south, but somehow I think they will find a way to sprawl towards San Diego.

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It better not! :nono:

San Diego still has a lot of land, but pretty soon the only open land wil be in the military bases and mission trails park.

God forbid they realize that people have been building UP for centuries to solve this problem.

You know one thesis regarding the cause of the fall of the Mayan empire? They built on the land they used to farm.

Las VEgas.
Los Angeles
Miami

SDfan said:

It better not! :nono:

San Diego still has a lot of land, but pretty soon the only open land wil be in the military bases and mission trails park.

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Sorry,
San Angeles is inevitable
Just give it 20 years.

Yea were ALMOST out of land in Broward. Theres lots and lots of horse ranches in the middle of Davie and Cooper City that may eventually be bought up and developed....
Developers own open land yet to be developed here so were not out of land yet aand as long as we have lots of strip malls that can be dozed and built up on and the surface parking lots which there are PLENTY of we're not out of land yet

Yea were ALMOST out of land in Broward. Theres lots and lots of horse ranches in the middle of Davie and Cooper City that may eventually be bought up and developed....
Developers own open land yet to be developed here so were not out of land yet aand as long as we have lots of strip malls that can be dozed and built up on and the surface parking lots which there are PLENTY of we're not out of land yet

Also Miami has plentiful surface lots that can accomidate.

chicagogeorge said:

Sorry,
San Angeles is inevitable
Just give it 20 years.

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Doesn't San Angeles already exist? I've driven 5 from LA to San Diego a few times and never noticed a whole lot of undeveloped land.

Orange county runs right into San Diego county. You drive down 5, hit San Clemente, Camp Pendleton, then Oceanside. Besides Camp Pendleton, there really isn't anything separating LA from SD.

ScraperDude said:

Also Miami has plentiful surface lots that can accomidate.

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well were running out of land,parking and parking lots .

The Texas metros all have a few hundred miles left for them to branch out...

mvasquez said:

The Texas metros all have a few hundred miles left for them to branch out...

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Try several thousand.

Any already dense metros