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Important to note that Urban areas continue to grow, but the rate at which they've been growing is decreasing, while suburban growth rates are increasing again.
by Karrot_Kream 9y ago
Important to note that Urban areas continue to grow, but the rate at which they've been growing is decreasing, while suburban growth rates are increasing again. To me, the comparison feels a bit dodgy, as a much smaller change in suburban population will move the growth rate for those areas compared to Urban areas, due to lower populations, and Urban centers continue to grow, just slower than before.
- majormajor 9y agoI don't think that's right: https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/how-suburban-are-big-american-cities/ https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/how-suburban-are-big-am... > Nationally, 26 percent of Americans described where they live as urban, 53 percent said suburban and 21 percent said rural. (This comes close to the census estimate that 81 percent of the population is urban if “urban” is understood to include suburban areas.) Of course, that's response-based, but if you look at the character of most American cities, there's very little truly dense urban areas. Though even the definition of suburban itself can cover a wide range, since "suburban" Los Angeles has a lot of 8-10K person/sqmile areas and "suburban" Dallas generally is more like 4K, and then others are even less.