Today I went for a bike ride to see if I could find my way to school on my own (the bike routes to school are way different than the streets). I found a good example of the difference between the population density (Bevölkerungsdichte, like in the title of the post) in Germany and America.
In Germany the landscape can go from something like...
...cows in a meadow...
...or crops in field...
...to inner city in a couple of kilometers (don't the buildings in Germany look so quaint?). Here there's not as much suburban sprawl as there is in America, at least from what I've seen. So, in Germany, it's more likely to be a densely populated city, a village, or farmland, whereas in America, there's a lot more suburban area. Anyway, tomorrow I'm going to bike to school. We'll see how that goes. Until next time...
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Das Altstadtfest war echt cool^^
Sollte keiner verpassen
Kevin, I wonder if maybe you're comparing apples and oranges with your density comparisons, perhaps because you grew up in a major metropolitan area. I wonder what would happen if you compared cities of the same size? (Of course, probably individual lot sizes would always be bigger-->we have more space to work with.)
(It was a great Sunday here in the Mid-West, too. Our first taste of Fall.)
That's a very good point. Washington, D.C. has about twice the population of Bielefeld, the biggest city in the area. D.C. is about as far from my house in America as Bielefeld is from Rheda.
In any case, something as simple as population density has a huge impact on the country. The public transportation here is much better as a result of the higher density, which really helps the environmental side of things here. In many places in America it's simply not possible to get around without a car.
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