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FYI ... look at Macon-Warner Robins. Easily the second-largest urban area in the state by 2060, per the maps. I actually think that's a real possibility.
Cool study, but it's based on the development patterns of the last 50 years and ignores plenty of potential influences on future development such as...
Trend back towards higher-density communities
Electric/self-driving cars
Increasing costs of aging infrastructure in sub/ex-urban environments
Ability of more individuals to telecommute/work from home
Continued decrease in crime nationwide
This isn't to say that I could put forward a more legitimate scenario, but if planners of the 1950s had projected what development would occur in the 2nd half of the century based on the 1st half I think they would have missed the mark substantially. Same with this study.
Cool study, but it's based on the development patterns of the last 50 years and ignores plenty of potential influences on future development such as...
Trend back towards higher-density communities
Electric/self-driving cars
Increasing costs of aging infrastructure in sub/ex-urban environments
Ability of more individuals to telecommute/work from home
Continued decrease in crime nationwide
This isn't to say that I could put forward a more legitimate scenario, but if planners of the 1950s had projected what development would occur in the 2nd half of the century based on the 1st half I think they would have missed the mark substantially. Same with this study.
Those same trends are pushing manufacturing into rural areas along freeway corridors. The Southeast is also anticipated to see great deal of growth in manufacturing moving forward. Much of this takes up a great deal of land and workers will live nearby, so much of this is not as far fetched as you might think.
Those same trends are pushing manufacturing into rural areas along freeway corridors. The Southeast is also anticipated to see great deal of growth in manufacturing moving forward. Much of this takes up a great deal of land and workers will live nearby, so much of this is not as far fetched as you might think.
We have a place on Lake Hartwell and you can see that development up and down 85. Right near the border in Lavonia there are several warehouses. Land is cheap and they're right off the interstate. Close to Atlanta and its airport and close to Greenville, Charlotte, Raleigh etc. It's already a major economic corridor.
I'll be 68. I'm not sure that the projection is that accurate. Just look at technology changes in the past 20 years. I have no idea what it'll be like almost 50 years from now. Self driving cars maybe? Who knows but I doubt it'll be exactly like cars today. But it will be interesting to see what the population will be and how it's handled. There's no sign of things slowing down for Atlanta.
I can't take their projections seriously when they don't have Birmingham, Macon, and Chattanooga connected to Atlanta by anything more substantial. As if Greenville and Spartanburg are going to evolve into some urban mecca or something, maybe somewhere near the tiny little city of Cowpens or something. What a name.
Furthermore, re-urbanization is going to kill all of this. People will be concentrating into black holes like Atlanta and Charlotte, just like NYC is a black hole. They aren't going to be filling up the vast expanses in-between, especially with plenty of blighted land to redevelop closer to the cities.
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