In-region Migration - The Face of Cincinnati (Hamilton, Manchester: apartment, home)

[Cincy-Rise]

This is an interesting article ... notice it speaks of rural villages, not suburbs - so no city VS. suburb bashing!

In 100 years we (http://www.deccanchronicle.com/dc-comment/100-years-we%E2%80%99ll-be-fully-urban-species-388 - broken link)

Chongqing is a dense and smoky inland city, the heavy-industry, high-rise home to over 30 million people. It is to China what Chicago was to 20th-century America, or Manchester to 19th-century England, and it’s growing at an extraordinary rate. Every day a tide of 1,500 new people washes in to Chongqing. Every day an extra 1.5 million square feet of floor space is constructed for new residents. It’s a vast megalopolis, a megacity of the sort that will soon take over the world.

I met Mr and Mrs Zhang on the day they first arrived in Chongqing from their rural village. It had taken them almost 10 years to raise enough money to move and required outrageous sacrifice: They pooled together their accumulated cash from years of sweated labour in motorcycle-parts factories, and had paid the full purchase price of 150,000 yuan (£14,000) for a clean and elegant three-bedroom apartment, turning them, legally, into city-dwellers. In the next few months they will bring their parents over from the village, shutting the farm down and ending their family’s millennia-long connection to the fields.

Cont. (http://www.deccanchronicle.com/dc-comment/100-years-we%E2%80%99ll-be-fully-urban-species-388 - broken link)

Thoughts, people?

[restorationconsultant]

Interesting article, Of course that migration occurred here years ago. Cincinnati grew my leaps and bounds during the depression as people moved from Appalachia to Cincinnati, "the big city".

We replacing the German ghetto of OTR with an applachian gettho, then an African American ghetto and in the next decade a upwardly mobile mostly white ghetto.

I do see that, because of advances in farming and the Corporate farming as needing fewer people to accomplish the same tasks. If you drive into the small towns that are between Indianapolis and Cincinnati, its full of people trying to 'get out' of their cirumstances and head on to what they 'believe' is a better life.

I do think however that it makes the argument that regional metro governments are going to make a great deal of sense. It seemed silly to many when Indianapolis proposed a combined city-county government (unigov) and vast parts of the county was still rural. Today, that's all residential and sprawl is everwhere, but the unigov government likely saved millions by combining administerative services under one umbrella.

Having that discussion In Cincinnati and Hamilton county now? SCARY!!!!!!!

But eventually it will have to happen.