• schroedingershat@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    If you take both the population and area of greater houston without the urban core, there is one hectare of suburban wasteland per person.

    One person per hectare isn’t the rural settlement in your imagined past, it’s a single family and a few farm hands living on an unusually large and high-labor productivity farm way out of town.