03-18-2021, 09:56 AM
(03-17-2021, 06:29 PM)plam Wrote:(03-17-2021, 01:09 PM)GarthDanlor Wrote: It's also the distributed nature of the metropolitan area with 2 main city centre areas in KW and 3 within Cambridge itself. Maybe by the time we reach a million in 2050, we will feel like a city of 600 000.
One could say that but Wellington also has Lower Hutt (100k), Upper Hutt (56k), and Porirua (56k) which are pretty cut off from Wellington by geographic features (hills). They are connected by commuter rail and not very high capacity highways.
I have only been to Wellington once, and it was many years ago, so my memory is a bit fuzzy on this. But wouldn't it be fair to say that the geography (hills!) constraints the sprawl in Wellington much more than it does here, where we are surrounded by flat farmland and former farmland?