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Quick question where do you think the huge population growth in large cities over the last few decades came from? Cities are full of people who lived through p
by 8fGTBjZxBcHq 6y ago
Quick question where do you think the huge population growth in large cities over the last few decades came from?
Cities are full of people who lived through part of those declines and left, or grew up in those places after and left. Part of what "decline" means in this context is "your young and ambitious people all left for the nearest very large city or NYC."
- VLM 6y agoThat population growth doesn't seem to exist. Certainly not in NYC graphs. San Francisco was exponential growth until 1940, then flatlined since 1950. Detroit and Baltimore were those destination cities until 1970 or so. Huge population growth in large cities is a pre-WWII effect and its an outside the US effect. Last time NYC had Shenzhen-like population growth was over a century ago.