One thing you're forgetting isn't how much space is available per person, is
how much OPEN space is available. Sure, you can get a lot of room per
person, but not nearly enough to have full skyscrapers (even three story
buildings), roads, traffic lights, or intersections.
As you say, the SDF-1 is 1,200m long. Take off the front half of that for
the main gun, leaving 600m of space for the rest of the ship, lengthwise.
Take off a bit of that 600m for the main engines at the back, leaving, say,
500m of ship space, again, in the lengthwise dimension.
So if you take the very radical position that all of that 500m was for the
city, totally ignoring the need for hanger space, manufacturing centres,
other storage spaces, etc., then you can get an idea about how some of us
take issue with cramming a whole city into that space. 500m is hardly long
enough for more than a few city blocks. And when you acknowledge that there
are things in the ship other than the city, the available room decreases
greatly.
So using that arguement alone, it quickly becomes obvious how some of us
feelthat the ship has to be up-scaled to make room for what we see in the
show itself, and what is stated as canon information.
And as for your comparison with a Nimitz-class aircraft carrier... do recall
that the vast majority of the crew of ships like that have little more than
abunk and a footlocker for a living space, and even then, the bunks are
sometimes shared between three crewmembers. There's no way to account for
all the personal space observed in the SDF-1.
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