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Check out Austin, TX. The trick is finding something happening organically like that and then growing with it.
by golemotron 8y ago
Check out Austin, TX. The trick is finding something happening organically like that and then growing with it.
- SketchySeaBeast 8y agoAustin, TX is 200 years old. While it has grown massively in the last 70 years, that's due to the oil boom. What stands out to you that makes Austin seem like a stand out example?
- golemotron 8y agoBookmark this comment and return to it in 5 years.
- SketchySeaBeast 8y agoI'm confused as to your point - how does Austin Texas prove that you can develop new cities in a modern setting?
- lkbm 8y agoI don't think by "new cities" he meant starting a new city in an empty field. Take an existing, small, cheap city and go there. The thing stopping us is the network effects of big cities and tech hubs, but Austin is an example of relatively sudden, rapid growth. (Oil may have played a part, but in recent years it's been tech. My perception is that the oil jobs are in Houston.) Could we take ten cities that look like Austin circa 1980 and turn them into Austin today rather than continuing to cram into NYC and SF? Would that be better (by whatever metrics we care about)?
- SketchySeaBeast 8y agoAh, ok, I can understand more from that angle then, but it looks like the Austin manual growth rate hasn't markedly increased in recent decades: http://worldpopulationreview.com/us-cities/austin-population/ http://worldpopulationreview.com/us-cities/austin-population...