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..only by adding counties associated with its metro. In its current footprint, it's not going to reach 7.2 million people. I can imagine it doubling in its current CSA boundaries.
I live in the PHX area so pretty much how LA is now without the ocean... I'm more curious to see if Detroit and Cleveland end up ghost towns or have a revival.
The SF Bay Area will be like Narnia, and China, and Mexico, and LA from blade runner, all combined. People will ride flying elephants and our arms will have evolved into tentacles.
It does seems like Charlotte has the potential to serious rival Atlanta as the top tier city of the Southeast in the future. Though right now the Charlotte MSA isn't up to par yet to rival the Atlanta MSA.
Atlanta and Charlotte have been "rivals" for years. Atlanta's metro is larger because it includes twice the number of counties Charlotte's does.
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..only by adding counties associated with its metro. In its current footprint, it's not going to reach 7.2 million people. I can imagine it doubling in its current CSA boundaries.
In the south there is no real way to tell how any city will look in 50 years. There are so many factors that could change how a city will look, first we don't know what the next big thing or company is or where it will take off from. 40 years can change an entire city in every aspect. For all we know a southern city like Columbia, Augusta or Savannah for example could become the next Atlanta or Charlotte.
The town I live in tends to go up and down. Back in the 50s, it was nice, then it got rundown, and then in the late 90s a lot of renovation projects went underway. However, it will probably not be long until this place become run down again, as there is hardly any new land to develop over.
A lot of the open areas in the Portland suburbs will be developed which they are at the moment. Portland itself is full of older homes that the city takes pride for, which will sadly rot away, especially in that kind of climate. However the public transport will probably be very well developed and rival that of New York.
Houston is large in surface area and sprawls out quite far even an hour away from Downtown, as do most Texas cities. Either all of Texas countryside will turn into suburban sprawl connecting all the big cities(which is happening as I notice new suburban style developments are somewhat common in small Texas towns now), or more urban hubs will develop along the interstate corridors forming a statewide megalopolis.
Out of all the major cities, Miami will undergo the most change. It's the most dynamic city in the US right now. You see how Dubai went through a major transformation? Miami is about to go through the same thing.
Only renders but most of the projects are already approved/under construction now or very soon especially the project on the West Side. Of course this is only Manhattan but Brooklyn's skyline will also by massive by 2050.
In fact even before the decade is over Brooklyn will have (already approved) a 700 foot tower.
Our modest, Downtown skyline now. . . (Williamsburg and Greenpoint will also have a nice skyline in the future, not pictured) http://distilleryimage8.s3.amazonaws...380f28ef_7.jpg
The SF Bay Area will be like Narnia, and China, and Mexico, and LA from blade runner, all combined. People will ride flying elephants and our arms will have evolved into tentacles.
I was thinking more along the lines of "Planet of the Apes."
But actually, San Francisco in 2050 will be no more different from today's SF than today's SF is from that of 1974 -- with more rich and poor people, fewer middle-class people, lots and lots more Asian people, new buildings here and there, a couple of boom-bust cycles, *possibly* a high-speed rail connection to LA, and probably a major earthquake thrown into the mix.
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