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mtcady:
(click to show/hide)So, in the scene where Albion is describing Spire Albion he says it is 10,000 feet tall and 2 miles wide, with 250 habbles, with 236(?) populated. The math seems to work out as the spire being a huge cube, somewhat shorter than it is wide.  That also works out to 40 feet per habble, although it would be a indeterminate amount less depending on how much spire stone is between levels. 
Using an average population density of 1000 people per square mile (because it is close to numbers for large cities and it makes the math easy) that would give us a population for spire Albion with the upper limit of a million

Second Aristh:
That 10,000 seems a bit low for 250 habbles if Habble Landing can be taken as an average height level. 

If we take the standard fifty feet height of a level like it says in Ch.25 to be the average height of a habble (not to mention that Habble Morning's atrium soars up two hundred feet which would have to be borrowed from other levels), then the Spire is at least 250*50=12,500 feet high in empty space alone.  That doesn't even consider the extra height of having floors between each level.  It also requires having lower habbles at or below Mist level.

Mith:
One can take the difference in units used (feet and miles) to imply that they are more approximations of the actual dimensions.  As such, I would read the 10, 00 feet to be a rough order of magnitude to give a range between 10,000 and    15,000 feet.

mtcady:
Either way,  the word spire  (in my mind anyway) conjures up an image of something tall and relatively thin in comparison to its height. the given dimensions, even if they are only approximations, make spire Albion sound rather stumpy

Mar10:
The word Spire, in my mind, also speaks to something more 'roundish' that 'cubish'.  10,000 ft is still WAY tall though.  Either way, it is totally not what I original thought it would be.

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