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There are two similar instances of a principal city of a region being superseded in population by another city though not completely losing its influence. One is San Francisco with the rise of San Jose as the capital of Silicon Valley. Also, Norfolk with the rise of its neighboring Virginia Beach.
And IMO, VA Beach cheated! Fifty years ago, VA Beach was just a collection of small towns, suburbs and rural areas. They threw wide boundaries around it, incorporated it, and voila! Instant "city"! It'd be like the entire state of NJ incorporating itself as a city to surpass NYC!
And IMO, VA Beach cheated! Fifty years ago, VA Beach was just a collection of small towns, suburbs and rural areas. They threw wide boundaries around it, incorporated it, and voila! Instant "city"! It'd be like the entire state of NJ incorporating itself as a city to surpass NYC!
Cities in the southwest of the U.S def did that too! Phoenix totally just ate up surrounding cities and then rose to be like the fifth largest city in the country.
So...I don't know if its cheating, but it's def not the way cities developed in the past...
And IMO, VA Beach cheated! Fifty years ago, VA Beach was just a collection of small towns, suburbs and rural areas. They threw wide boundaries around it, incorporated it, and voila! Instant "city"! It'd be like the entire state of NJ incorporating itself as a city to surpass NYC!
Jacksonville, Indianapolis, Nashville, and Louisville did the same thing. As well as Chesapeake, VA and Suffolk, VA.
I don't know if it's "cheating," but it is different from what was previously done.
LA, Dallas, Houston, Phoenix, Oklahoma City, etc. swallowed up and annexed places that were previously separate towns in their own right.
Magnolia, FL once was a booming riverport in the panhandle. It's economy was based off commerce between plantation owners shipping goods and doing trade with merchants in Tallahasee. Apparently it was destroyed in the mid-1800's by a severe hurricane. The city has a population of 0 today and almost nothing is left. Magnolia, Florida - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Not really. NYC is extremely huge even on county levels. As a matter of fact if separated from NYC Brooklyn and Queens both over 2.5M residents would be in America's top ten largest cities.
By the way, Philladelphia is a great example of a city that used to be much much more influential years ago...
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