Yawan jama'a, Yankin Ƙasa da Ƙari
Mutane da yawa sunyi la'akari da Pittsburgh a matsayin daya daga cikin manyan biranen Amurka dangane da yawancin mutane kuma suna mamakin sanin cewa ba ma sa saman 50. A cewar kididdigar ƙididdigar Amurka daga shekarar 2010, Pittsburgh yana da yawa a ƙasa da birane mafi yawan mutane sun yi imanin sun fi karamin ciki har da Cleveland, Columbus, Minneapolis, Kansas City, Nashville, Tulsa, Anaheim da kuma Witchita, Kansas.
Pittsburgh a halin yanzu Amurka ta 56th mafi girma a birnin, daga 8th a 1910.
Kimanin Columbus, OH, wanda ya bambanta, an zaba a # 15. Pittsburgh ya kusan kusan rabin yawan jama'arta tun lokacin da aka fara hutunsa a farkon karni na 20, amma don haka yana da sauran birane kamar yadda mutane suka zaba don motsawa zuwa unguwannin gari. Duk da haka, za ku yi mamakin sanin cewa Pittsburgh har yanzu ya fi yawan mutane fiye da biyar daga cikin manyan biranen 10 a kasar a 281,000.
Facts & Figures
Dalilin da ya sa Pittsburgh ya kasance yana raguwa yayin da wasu birane - irin su Houston, Phoenix, da San Diego - suna jin dadin yawan jama'a ne cewa iyakokinta na gari kusan ba su canzawa daga doki da kwanakin kwalliya ba, yayin da birane Sun Belt suke ci gaba da haɓaka yankunansu. Houston ya karu daga kilomita 17 a 1910 zuwa 579 square miles a 2000. Phoenix yanzu cinye fiye da sau 27 da yankin da aka ruwaito a 1950, kuma San Diego yana da fiye da triples a cikin lokaci a lokaci guda. Pittsburgh, ya bambanta, bai ƙaddamar da iyakanta na gari ba tun lokacin da ya haɗa Allegheny City (yanzu Arewa Side) a 1907.
Ƙasar da ke cikin birnin da ke cikin Top 10 na Amurka ita ce kilomita 340, fiye da sau shida da girman gundumar Pittsburgh, a kilomita 56. Wadannan mega-metropolises sun shimfidawa da haɗiye yankunansu, suna fadada asusun ajiyar kuɗin gari don hada da mutane da yawa yadda za su iya. San Diego, mafi ƙanƙanta daga cikin birane 10 yana kusan yawan Allegheny County (wanda ba zato ba tsammani, a matsayi na # 30 daga cikin manyan yankunan Amurka).
Ƙasar da ke cikin birnin da ke cikin Top 10 na Amurka ita ce kilomita 340, fiye da sau shida da girman gundumar Pittsburgh, a kilomita 56. Wadannan mega-metropolises sun shimfidawa da haɗiye yankunansu, suna fadada asusun ajiyar kuɗin gari don hada da mutane da yawa yadda za su iya. San Diego, mafi ƙanƙanta daga cikin birane 10 yana kusan yawan Allegheny County (wanda ba zato ba tsammani, a matsayi na # 30 daga cikin manyan yankunan Amurka).
Ya kamata birnin ya kara girma?
Idan aka ƙaddamar da iyakokin yankunan Pittsburgh don rufewa da wuri kamar kowane birni na Top 10, zai kara yawan mutanen garin daga kimanin 330,000 zuwa fiye da miliyan 1, yana yin Pittsburgh ta tara mafi girma a cikin kasar.
Ƙungiyar Urbanized Pittsburgh (UA), yankin da aka ƙidaya ta Ƙidaya na Amurka kamar gari da ƙauyuka, an zaba # 22 a Amurka a yawancin jama'a kuma # 24 a Amurka dangane da yanki ko yanki (181.7 square miles). Sa'an nan kuma akwai Yankin Ƙididdiga na Tsarin Lissafi na Pittsburgh (yankin da Ƙungiyar Ƙidaya ta ƙayyade ta rufe su a cikin ƙauyuka Allegheny, Armstrong, Beaver, Butler, Fayette, Washington, da Westmoreland). Ta amfani da wannan alƙaluma, Pittsburgh yana da matsayi # 21 a cikin yawan jama'a a cikin biranen Amurka.
M, sun kasance duk lambobi.
Dangane da yawan mutanen da ke zaune a yankin Pittsburgh mafi girma, gari yana yiwuwa ya kasance a wani wuri a saman 20. Pittsburgh babban birni ne na Amurka, tare da gari wanda ba shi da ƙananan isa ya sauƙi daga wannan gefe zuwa wancan. Yana da dukan zane-zane, al'ada, da abubuwan da za ku yi tsammani daga babban birni, tare da zuciya, ƙauna da jin daɗin ƙarami. Fred Rogers ya kira Pittsburgh daya daga cikin "manyan garuruwan" Amurka. Barka da zuwa yankin.