California cities most densely populated in U.S.

John King, the San Francisco Chronicle’s urban design critic:

Of the 486 “urbanized areas,” only three of the 10 most densely populated are not in California: New York-Newark comes in fifth, “Urban Honolulu” eighth and Las Vegas-Henderson, Nev., 10th.

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