There are over 10,000 cities in America with nine containing over a million people. In the 2010 Census, the numbers for the population of these nine cities themselves, discounting suburbs and surrounding areas, are estimated as follows: New York, 8.36m; Los Angeles, 3.8m; Chicago, 2.85m; Houston, 2.24m; Phoenix, 1.56m; Philadelphia, 1.44m; San Antonio, 1.35m; Dallas, 1.28m; and San Diego, 1.28m. The next 41 of the top 50 are detailed at www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0763098.html As tourist destinations and locations for huge businesses, cities are the lifeblood of America. Although they lack the homely feel of a log cabin of a little village, or the towns which lie beside long stretches of Interstate road with populations barely touching three figures, cities help make America one of the leading economies in the world. It is interesting to see the population density in the country, which focuses around the coasts and some states in the middle part of the country, such as Illinois, Texas and Nevada. Although multinational American corporations have stores in all major cities, since many consumers live there, it is the individual quirks that give cities their own feel. New Orleans has its Cajun culture, New York its melting pot of African-American, Jewish and Italian-American, Las Vegas with its gaudy culture of consumerism, San Francisco with its bridges and cable cars, Los Angeles with its plastic-fantasticness and Detroit with its wonderful past. Julian Temple's recent film 'Requiem for Detroit' shows the decay of a once-great city, and it is a shame that America treats the Motor City, where black music defined the sound of the nation from 1958 until 1967 at least, is left to rot.
