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Old 05-20-2016, 01:10 PM
 
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Will Chicago lose world class city status ? NYC is top dog though
Yes, the loss of 3000 people renders Chicago irrelevant on the global stage. It will be replaced by Houston or some as yet to be built Chinese city.
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Old 05-20-2016, 01:30 PM
 
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Yes, the loss of 3000 people renders Chicago irrelevant on the global stage. It will be replaced by Houston or some as yet to be built Chinese city.
Haha.

Chicago will not lose it's world class status. Yeah, it's losing population and has been for a long time, but that doesn't mean it's losing it world class status, in fact I think it continues to become more world class every year.

I do think though, certain cities will start to overshadow Chicago more and more. For example, SF I think already overshadows Chicago, and I can see other cities that are going through their own urban renaissance and growing, will overshadow Chicago somewhat. However Chicago is a world class city and in our lives it will always be.

It could lose its status one day, but I think that would take like 100 years for that to happen, and the city would have to have a mass exodus and severe urban decay like Detroit experienced.
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Old 05-20-2016, 01:47 PM
 
Location: The Greatest city on Earth: City of Atlanta Proper
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Population growth usually isn't super-heavily correlated with housing construction.

You could have no new construction, yet a booming population increase. All you need is increased household sizes.

In the case of NYC, yes, there are huge levels of construction, especially outside Manhattan, but I'm not sure if that's actually the main driver of growth.
Or a high rate of deaths and population loss, both which NYC has. For quite some time now, NYC loses about the same amount of people it adds each year.
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Old 05-20-2016, 01:52 PM
 
Location: Watching half my country turn into Gilead
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Or a high rate of deaths and population loss, both which NYC has. For quite some time now, NYC loses about the same amount of people it adds each year.
Care to explain? If that were the case, the city wouldn't be posting overall population gains.
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Old 05-20-2016, 01:55 PM
 
Location: The Springs
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Colorado has a fairly impressive number of cities over 100,000, especially for a state of about 5.5 million.

Denver: 682,545
Colorado Springs: 456,568
Aurora: 359,407
Fort Collins: 161,175
Lakewood: 152,597
Thornton: 133,451
Arvada: 115,368
Westminster: 113,130
Centennial: 109,741
Pueblo: 109,412
Boulder: 107,349
Greeley: 100,883

Of course, most of these are in the Denver area, where around 3/5 of the state's population lives.
The South Central Colorado urbanized area (metro COS and PUB) have an estimated 2015 population of around 900,000. My guess in the not too distant future, the Springs and Pueblo will become a CMSA which would account for over 16% of the state's population. Not bad for a couple of towns that are for all purposes are in Denver's shadow and most likely always will be.
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Old 05-20-2016, 02:10 PM
 
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Are you sure you don't have your cities reversed?

LA is geographically much larger than NYC, yet doesn't even have half the population of NYC. If the cities had "equivalent" areas based on size, LA would have a smaller population than Houston.

LA, like almost all Sunbelt cities, has enormous city limits. NYC, like almost all older Northeast/Midwest cities, has rather constrained city limits relative to population.
Houston 627 Sq miles
LA 465.

That statement is false.
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Old 05-20-2016, 02:14 PM
 
Location: Minneapolis, Minnesota
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Houston 627 Sq miles
LA 465.

That statement is false.
Those are gigantic city limits.
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Old 05-20-2016, 02:15 PM
 
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Houston 627 Sq miles
LA 465.

That statement is false.
He saying that of LA were the same size as New York it would have a smaller population than Houston.
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Old 05-20-2016, 02:16 PM
 
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Houston 627 Sq miles
LA 465.

That statement is false.
I don't know what you're referring to. Yes, Houston is much larger than LA, yet has a much smaller population, which is exactly the point.
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Old 05-20-2016, 02:17 PM
 
Location: Louisville
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He saying that of LA were the same size as New York it would have a smaller population than Houston.
Well that's a silly game to play. If Houston were the same size as New York It would have smaller population than Phoenix.
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