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It's definitely a thing in the US. 64% of the population lived in urban areas in 1950 compared to 81% in 2010. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urbanization_in_th
by badfrog 8y ago
It's definitely a thing in the US. 64% of the population lived in urban areas in 1950 compared to 81% in 2010.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urbanization_in_the_United_States#Historical_statistics https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urbanization_in_the_United_Sta...
- entity345 8y agoIt was 74% in 1970 (50 years ago). It is not a massive change. The massive change in urbanisation is happening in developing countries. In developed countries it happened earlier and is not really a thing anymore.
- ghaff 8y agoI haven’t seen recent details but as of a few years ago, there was an uptick in college educated young people moving to a handful of mostly coastal dense urban cores but the overall urbanization trend in the US was rather limited.
- ghaff 8y agoBe careful of that though. Urban is very broadly defined by the census. I live in a 7,000 person town 40 miles outside of a major city. Myself and 2 neighbors are collectively on 75 acres and are adjacent to conservation land. This area is considered urban.