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"Reward suburbia", LOL! And no, I'm not about to "suffer" any inconvenience I don't have to for some philosophical kick! We've discussed the FHA before. You may do a search.
What are you saying? Are you disagreeing with me?
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Originally Posted by Katiana
Your list of shrinking cities is not impressive. Many cities are growing.
Phoenix that is apparently growing fast is not a city for all but couple of its blocks. SLC, Denver, Las Vegas and everything post 1960s too. I don't know what kind of benefits they get from being designated as a 'city' but they don't fit any of the characteristics of a real city...
Phoenix that is apparently growing fast is not a city for all but couple of its blocks. SLC, Denver, Las Vegas and everything post 1960s too. I don't know what kind of benefits they get from being designated as a 'city' but they don't fit any of the characteristics of a real city...
I'm disagreeing that people should be expected to "suffer" inconveniences to live in the city. If the city can't provide what people want, they have every right to go to the burbs.
You know, it's funny. Everything post 60s? The population of the US in 1970 was 203,000,000. Now it's 316,000,000. That is a gain of >50%! Where is everyone supposed to live, if new housing isn't built?
I'm disagreeing that people should be expected to "suffer" inconveniences to live in the city. If the city can't provide what people want, they have every right to go to the burbs.
Under the current government policies, suburban lifestyle is at an advantage. Is that fair? No. Then let's change it.
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Originally Posted by Katiana
You know, it's funny. Everything post 60s? The population of the US in 1970 was 203,000,000. Now it's 316,000,000. That is a gain of >50%! Where is everyone supposed to live, if new housing isn't built?
Obviously new housing had to be built... the problem is how drastically different the new cities and communities are and it's all for the worst.
Yes. The shrinking cities is shrank compared to peak population, small gains in the last decade don't make up for a general decline. But population decline stats aren't that informative. A number of European cities including some that good press among "urbanists" show large declines as well:
population loss from peak
Paris: -21% [peaked in 1954]
Barcelona: -12% [peaked in 1979, Spain urbanized late]
Copenhagen: -27% [peaked in 1950]
Milan: -22% [peaked in 1971]
Manchester: -41% [peaked in 1930]
City of Paris peak population was in 1921 according census.
The city population was rather stagnant until the 1950 when it really began to decline until the 2000's when the population started to grow again.
Today, the city is 23% less populated than in 1921.
In 1999 at the at lowest after the peak the city of Paris was 27% less populated than in 1921.
i cant speak for all of europe its a big place but in france, which i know, if you can you get a little car you do it. the metro and trains are full of thugs esp in the suburbs. do i want that here? i dont think so. my own town has become infested with thugs hopping off the trolley to loiter in the town without paying for anything and getting into trouble. they never pay on the trolley either. trust me if you get mugged here, he is not in a car.
Some population loss comes from decreased family size over the years.
True, most of Toronto's inner city neighbourhoods lost 20-40% of their population despite still being relatively intact. The main reason Toronto (pre 1998 city limits) is not less populated than in 1940/1950 is a lot of highrise construction since that time.
Still, there are a lot of cities that experienced growth within their city limits mainly because their city limits are very extensive and experienced greenfield development, but where the inner neighbourhoods still lost population (in bold below).
Here's population lost of the inner core (~20% by population) of various metropolitan areas. These are approximate numbers since they depend on how you draw the boundary, but I tried to draw them in a way that takes in the older neighbourhoods closer to downtown.
Metros over 1million with greater than 5% population loss in inner core from 2000 to 2010.
Cities I haven't calculated but probably still had significant losses (>5%): Chicago, Cleveland, New Orleans, Cincinnati.
Now metros over 1 million with greater than 5% gain.
Seattle: +8.0%
Portland: +7.9%
Washington: +6.9%
I haven't calculated NYC, Boston, Miami, San Diego and a couple others but I don't expect them to have greater than 5% growth in their inner cores.
Mind you, I think a lot of cities have experienced a turn around since then, with much faster growth since 2010 than between 2000 and 2010. Of course, it's only been a couple of years so it's not very strong evidence of a long term trend.
All over the country, progressive city planning departments are looking at "walkable urban" areas.
Our town has designated three such areas and is already developing one that will have shops, restaurants, businesses... all within a central area anchored by a park.
We are perfectly willing to spend tax dollars subsidizing roads, bridges, Highway Patrol, airports -- underwriting infrastructure and operation of flying and driving.
But underwrite the cost of buses and light rail? Heaven forbid. Why it's socialism to use tax dollars to underwrite transportation systems that will be used by the poor folk to get to their service industry jobs.
Unless, of course, commuting becomes too big of a headache and the well-to-do start demanding light rail trains to get them to work. Then it's a horse of a different color.
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