Last fall, when I visited Kawangware, a densely populated slum outside Nairobi, Kenya, the morning was bright, and a breeze provided a welcome respite from the smell of the open sewers that run like septic capillaries through the back streets and alleys.
On my way to the UK, I had the chance to make a pit-stop in Kenya's capital, Nairobi, where I visited Eastleigh - a densely populated neighbourhood where nearly all residents are ethnic Somalis.
Most on the closure list are in Northern California and are less visited than parks in the densely populated south.
Higher areas are less densely inhabited by local residents but often visited for leisure activities and recreation.
Forty-one farms in a discrete, densely farmed 100 km2 area of North West England were visited over a 3-week period and 215 faecal samples were collected from young calves.
The Stanford MLA group visited the Cerro Colorado Tortoise Reserve in the densely forested highlands, where conservationists are incubating and hatching eggs to repopulate the rare San Cristobal giant tortoise, which has been in danger of extinction.
This model is also taking hold in other densely populated cities in Asia, such as Big Basket in Bangalore (whose warehouses we visited and were initially inspired by) and Alibaba's Hema in Beijing.
That distance from the densely populated coastlines means South Dakota is also one of the so-called "flyover states" which most Americans have not visited and therefore know little about, beyond Mount Rushmore and perhaps the Badlands.
Ms. Morgan visited an apartment where Ms. Schoukair had moved all of her mother's work: "There was one room that was densely packed with sculpture, and every shelf, every wall, was covered," Ms. Morgan said.
In "Out of Sheer Rage" Dyer achieves a Cartesian state of procrastination, leading his readers through so many densely nested layers of avoidance as he travels the world visiting Lawrence's haunts that not writing about Lawrence becomes an end in itself.
With Dino, the cat, as guide, we visit a Paris that is simultaneously mythic and contemporary, a densely populated world where the moral economy is no less out of kilter as the sloping roofs.
