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Originally Posted by James_Mac
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/22/u...to-cities.html
Seems like good news for Chicago but bad news for the country. The basic point is that the much-heralded revitalization of American downtowns is actually very limited in scope - the large majority of 1 million + cities are becoming less dense. Still, Chicago is second on the list of cities in which density is increasing, and that's presumably based on city-wide numbers.
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Interesting. Essentially, the article says cities that were already pretty dense (upper midwest and northeast) are getting denser, while sprawling metros (south and west) are getting even more suburban. Big exception is Seattle which is hyper-densifying thanks to the tech giants there, and SF and LA which are already dense metros but havent densified much recently.
I wonder what their metrics are? Is it just the downtown/central areas they are counting? Because Chicago has been treading water when it comes to population gains, with huge swatch of the city depopulating, yet we are #2 on that list.