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Old 10-03-2022, 10:32 AM
 
Location: Germantown, Philadelphia
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Originally Posted by Joco a world class city View Post
I wonder if that still holds true since the 80s and metropolitan areas look a lot difference since then. A lot of the white flight happened in the 80s , I’m not an economist but I would wonder why cities like the phoenix area are booming when Phoenix is a bad core city imo.
Climate, principally. Economics isn't everything. And lots of people like the mountain scenery surrounding the city. It's better known as a place to retire to than as a place to make your fortune.

And yes, the ties between the economic performance of core cities and their suburbs remain as strong as they did in the '80s. Dick Voith, then a Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia economist*, wrote the paper below for an academic journal in 1998; I don't think you will find the links to have attenuated to any significant degree since then, your claims to the contrary notwithstanding:

Do Suburbs Need Cities? (Journal of Regional Science 38(3) (1998), pp. 445-454)

tl;dr: Yes. The relationship is less one-way than it once was, but it's still symbiotic.

To offer a cultural example of the symbiosis: Do you really think that everyone going to First Friday in the Crossroads or Westport on a Saturday night lives in KCMo exclusively? One of Philadelphia's most popular adult playgrounds, Main Street in the northwest neighborhood of Manayunk, fills on the weekends mainly with college students from the Main Line suburbs across the Schuylkill River, who have no such entertainment districts close to their campuses.

*Yes, We're Acquainted. He now works for a private economic consulting firm in Philadelphia, and his wife is an accomplished architect.
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Old 10-03-2022, 02:17 PM
 
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Yea most the people at the airport and chiefs games are from Kansas now (mostly JOCO). But I know people who live in Olathe and Overland Park who have never even step foot in Missouri. And many don’t know where the river market or the crossroads even is.
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