Posted Jan 12, 2017, 6:33 PM
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The "dark horse" for where the next city will emerge always seems to be the northern Great Plains and Mountain West. Canada offers some point of comparison: Alberta has more people than Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota and Wyoming combined.
But I don't see Bismarck or Billings ever being significant cities. The resources under Alberta are managed and controlled in Alberta, whereas the resources under the northern Mountain West and Great Plains states are controlled elsewhere. Not to mention the fact that resource economies are fickle.
My money is on Texas and Florida, and really on already established cities growing larger. I can see Austin becoming more important than it already is and Seattle being a "Tier 1" city, similar in presence to the Bay Area.
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