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Subject: Re: SW MOST DENSELY POPULATED AREA ON EARTH: IS THIS A MYTH?

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Date Posted: 20:59:10 10/19/04 Tue
In reply to: Robb 's message, "SW MOST DENSELY POPULATED AREA ON EARTH: IS THIS A MYTH?" on 22:54:02 10/18/04 Mon

>When I was living in SW it was rumored to be the most
>densely packed population on the planet. Is this true?
>Or was it an urban myth?
>
>According to
>http://www.housing.umass.edu/reshalls/southwest.html
>there's 5400 students living in SW. Doing some rough
>calculations off the Delorme US Atlas, SW is about .52
>of a square mile. This includes the field west of the
>Berkshire DC.
>
>That would equal a population density of about 10380
>per square mile?
From what I remember it was second in the world with only the slums of Calcutta being more dense, and they don't have any 20 story towers there!

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Re: SW MOST DENSELY POPULATED AREA ON EARTH: IS THIS A MYTH? Robb 06:59:13 10/20/04 Wed