Vacant lot in Springfield vs typical development in Tokyo's Nerima wardpic.twitter.com/lQpvHdBL95
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...mainly because they're just too far away to benefit from places which are still thriving--they only *work* when they have functional economies of their own
it's like that tedious cliche about "why do Americans need to build dense when we have S P A C E" as if all the acreage in, say, Wyoming makes an ounce of a difference to people trying to live and work in, say, Boston
Or for that matter, all the acreage in WESTERN MASS vis-a-vis the people trying to live and work in Boston
I think the higher costs ARE changing things for them, but just that it's a highly uneven and fairly slow process. Just look at Boston --> Quincy/Malden/Worcester/Salem/Portsmouth/Nashua/Portland, and even that's a poor example just because Boston has so many satellites.
But yeah, it's all about proximity, and small cities that are more than 1-1.5 hours from their regional hub but aren't big enough to sustain urban renewal on their own are fucked.
But that doesn't mean it's not happening. Just look at DC spilling over into Baltimore and Richmond, or Chicago spilling over into Indianapolis, Milwaukee, and Grand Rapids, or the gentrification of the small cities in the Texas triangle, and you'll see what I mean.
sure--some cities can still benefit, but those are usually the ones close enough to "orbit" the regional hub
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