25 Largest Cities in 100 Years (beach, building, California, living)

[TANaples]

Again, NY and LA have to be the tops.

[WestbankNOLA]

Originally Posted by Chicago60614

To say it's going to keep growing at 25% each decade for the next 100 years means its going to have to keep growing by more and more and more people each decade compared to the last.

So by 100 years from now, Atlanta is going to be growing by almost 8 million people EVERY decade. That's not very sustainable for cities on our planet. Even with technology growth, it's going to be very hard to keep stability or a good standard of living if you're going to be adding millions of people every few years.

[prwfromnc]

What do y'all think will happen to Detroit 100 years from now?

[prwfromnc]

Originally Posted by San Fran Babe

Don't take this too seriously as population growth rates will obviously not stay consistent for the the next 100 years. But hypothetically, if they did stay consistent and every city experienced their current growth rate (based off of 2000-2008 growth Table of United States primary census statistical areas - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia) for the next 100 years, these would be our 25 largest cities:

1.Los Angeles: 36,273,179
2.New York: 32,429,018
3.Dallas: 24,349,936
4.Atlanta: 24,320,895
5.Phoenix: 21,232,867
6.Houston: 21,183,381
7.Washington-Baltimore: 18,187,657
8.Chicago: 16,109,554
9.Miami: 10,917,534
10.Orlando: 10,898,100
11.San Francisco-San Jose: 10,860,838
12.Las Vegas: 10,419,710
13.Boston: 10,295,219
14.Seattle: 9,323,544
15.Charlotte: 9,136,864
16.Denver: 9,129,626
17.Philadelphia: 8,870,470
18.Austin: 8,523,635
19.Tampa: 7,552,014
20.Minneapolis: 7,516,419
21.Sacramento: 7,499,996
22.Raleigh: 7,734,298
23.San Antonio: 6,774,869
24.Portland: 6,208,486
25.Nashville: 5,346,997


Overpopulation is frightening.

If all of this happens, America would be like present day China!

[Golden-mind-State]

Originally Posted by prwfromnc

If all of this happens, America would be like present day China!

Now Imagine China in 100 years

[waronxmas]

Originally Posted by Golden-mind-State

Now Imagine China in 100 years

It won't be as big as you think:

NBC: China begins to face sex-ratio imbalance - World news- msnbc.com

Add the above with the fact that China is rapidly urbanizing and growing its middle class at an astonishing rate. When middle class people live in cities the tend to have fewer children, a fact that has repeated itself in Europe, Japan and America. China will still probably have about the same population today 100 years from now...unless there is some sort of baby boom.

[SouthmoreAve]

Originally Posted by Golden-mind-State

Now Imagine China in 100 years

China isn't what we have to worry about in terms of populations issues. They're controlling that issue, its India who will have to face this problem.

Its going to become the largest country (population-wise) in the not too distant future.

[tudorjason]

I could never guess the populations and I would imagine that designated metro areas would be impractical to discern. Today's metro areas, by 2110, will be huge combined metro statistical areas, including:

Seattle-Portland-Vancouver
San Francisco-Los Angeles-San Diego-Tijuana
Dallas-Fort Worth-Houston
Tallahassee-Orlando-Miami-Tampa
Boston-New York-Philadelphia-Baltimore-Washington DC-Hampton Roads
Charlotte-Raleigh/Durham-Winston/Salem
Chicago-Milwaukee-Indianapolis
Columbus-Cincinnati-Cleveland
Las Vegas-Phoenix-Tuscon
Omaha-Topeka-Kansas Cities-Tulsa-Oklahoma City

[chiatldal]

Originally Posted by tudorjason

I could never guess the populations and I would imagine that designated metro areas would be impractical to discern. Today's metro areas, by 2110, will be huge combined metro statistical areas, including:

Seattle-Portland-Vancouver
San Francisco-Los Angeles-San Diego-Tijuana
Dallas-Fort Worth-Houston
Tallahassee-Orlando-Miami-Tampa
Boston-New York-Philadelphia-Baltimore-Washington DC-Hampton Roads
Charlotte-Raleigh/Durham-Winston/Salem
Chicago-Milwaukee-Indianapolis
Columbus-Cincinnati-Cleveland
Las Vegas-Phoenix-Tuscon
Omaha-Topeka-Kansas Cities-Tulsa-Oklahoma City

File:MapofEmergingUSMegaregions.png - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Megaregions - America 2050

Georgia Institute of Technology :: CQGRD : Megaregions

BosWash: Boston, Providence Hartford, New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore and Washington
Southern Cali: Los Angeles, Riverside, San Bernardino, San Diego, Tijuana, Las Vegas
Northern Cali: San Francisco, Oakland, San Jose, Sacramento, Stockton, Modesto, Fresno
Great Lakes: Chicago, Detroit, Pittsburgh, Milwaukee, Indianapolis, Cleveland, Cincinnati, Columbus, Grand Rapids, Buffalo, Toronto, Columbus
Piedmont Atlantic: Birmingham, Atlanta, Greenville, Charlotte, Greensboro, Winston-Salem, Raleigh
The Texas Triangle: Houston, Dallas, San Antonio, Austin, and Fort Worth
Gulf Coast: Houston, New Orleans, Baton Rouge, Mobile
Cascadia: Seattle, Portland, Vancouver
Florida: Miami, Tampa, St. Petersburg, Orlando
Front Range: Denver, Colorado Springs, Pueblo, Cheyenne
Sun corridor: Phoenix, Tucson

[brzzz]

God we are all so f*cked.

Oh well, nothing to do but hop in the car and drive to walmart, then pop out a few more kids.