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Arguably LA, Chicago and NYC are fairly saturated metro areas already, and for them to be experiencing outmigration is a desirable safety valve. What's not bein
by zuminator 8y ago
Arguably LA, Chicago and NYC are fairly saturated metro areas already, and for them to be experiencing outmigration is a desirable safety valve. What's not being shown here is whether there's an actual net population loss in these regions. If there is, I suspect it's minimal.
- barry-cotter 8y agoThis is insane. Any of these cities could fit 25m within city limits if they just upzoned. Shanghai has 25m and half the municipality is farmland or two or three story buildings.
- max76 8y agoIt would require more than just upzoning to increase the population of a city to 25m. NYC's subway, for example, would need significant improvements to support that kind of population.
- philsnow 8y agoThe tax base grows with population growth. The advantages of subways and other mass transit are strongest with denser populations.
- el_nahual 8y agoThis is false for Chicago, which had a million (!) more people in the 1950s than it has today. Vast swaths of the south side are vacant, and residents of homes in abandoned blocks can famously buy plots of land for a dollar (plus taxes).