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I dont think there is a clear winner. Houston probably is the most important overall, but when you put them all up against each other, I would be inclined to say they are all about the same. They are just important in different ways. Omshahi did an excellent job of articulating why (as usual ), so Im not going do it again.
None of them are that important that life wouldn't find a way to go on. You can argue that if any of those cities disappeared tomorrow then life in the region would be terribly disrupted for a very long time. I could give you a list of so called second tier metros that would impact an entire region if they were taken away. Imagine the financial woes that would occur if Charlotte were destroyed and the worlds largest financial institution, Bank of America, was eliminated (among others)
If the World Trade Center can be leveled in lower Manhattan and New York's heart found a way, just like a human heart, to bypass the blockage, life will go on without Dallas, Houston, Atlanta, or Miami.
From a Fiscal Report Regarding 911 done by City of NY:
None of them are that important that life wouldn't find a way to go on. You can argue that if any of those cities disappeared tomorrow then life in the region would be terribly disrupted for a very long time. I could give you a list of so called second tier metros that would impact an entire region if they were taken away. Imagine the financial woes that would occur if Charlotte were destroyed and the worlds largest financial institution, Bank of America, was eliminated (among others)
If the World Trade Center can be leveled in lower Manhattan and New York's heart found a way, just like a human heart, to bypass the blockage, life will go on without Dallas, Houston, Atlanta, or Miami.
From a Fiscal Report Regarding 911 done by City of NY:
Funny how the scars of 911 remain like the artery that's bypassed in heart surgery.
Good post. This speaks to the overall resiliancy and strength of the US in general. Now I hope and pray there is never day like 911 again but in a way America can be proud of it's ability to adapt and recover from such a horrible experience and it did so in a way that ten years later there was hardly a beat skipped but let us never forget, One life lost was too many
If the World Trade Center can be leveled in lower Manhattan and New York's heart found a way, just like a human heart, to bypass the blockage, life will go on without Dallas, Houston, Atlanta, or Miami.
I agree. It was damaging to the economy, but life went on.
Yeah. It really was made before. A very very long thread at that.
Not including Metros
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), so Im not going do it again.
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