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I stopped reading at "And they've paid equal, or even greater, attention to suburbia; in the developed world, after all, that's where most people live." I don'
by jbarciauskas 16y ago
I stopped reading at "And they've paid equal, or even greater, attention to suburbia; in the developed world, after all, that's where most people live."
I don't think this is true. Google failed me but according to http://factfinder.census.gov/servlet/GCTTable?_bm=y&-geo_id=01000US&-_box_head_nbr=GCT-P1&-ds_name=DEC_2000_SF1_U&-format=US-1 http://factfinder.census.gov/servlet/GCTTable?_bm=y&-geo... ), the plurality of people in the US live in "urban, urbanized area, central place" (39%), as opposed to "not in a central place" (29%) or "rural" (21%). And my experience is that the US is much more suburban than the rest of the developed world, Europe particularly. Seems a very odd thing to say. Turns out, most people actually live in cities, and have jobs other than writing this kind of nonsense.
- henrikschroder 16y agoIf you stopped reading there, you completely missed the meat of the article, it wasn't about suburbia at all, it was about getting the size of businesses right.
- natrius 16y agoI'd be wary of trying to equate technical census terms with common definitions of related terms without citing their explanations. Both "urbanized area" and "not in a central place" probably don't exclude suburban areas.