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Replying to @random_eddie @mr_archenemy and
So...to start, I dislike the term 'white flight' because it's used to beat up whites for city disfunction and blurs what was going on. Blacks would have left also if not for racial restrictions. When they finally could, they did.
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Replying to @ElamBend @random_eddie and
By the late 50s, early 60s, it was clear that cities were starting to totter, it differed by city, but it's easy to find articles about Detroits problems in the early 60s and by that point, it'd already passed peak population. Spending was out of control and things were crumbling
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Replying to @ElamBend @random_eddie and
So, people began to leave if they could. People often track this to the late 60s or even 68 riots, but it began a lot early, the events of the late 60s just got the late movers off the fence.
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Replying to @ElamBend @random_eddie and
As it turns out, the abondment of the city core is a natural progression of city development. Here I point to a wonderful book: https://www.amazon.com/Sprawl-Compact-History-Robert-Bruegmann/dp/0226076911 …
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Replying to @ElamBend @random_eddie and
Building on the existing concentric circle theory, he showed, through the history of much older cities than North America has, he showed this natural progression. Eventually, though, the city center becomes the wealthiest part (think Paris's Latin quarter, a dump 100 years ago)
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Replying to @ElamBend @random_eddie and
Now, to smaller and greater effect, this is happening to nearly every American city (even as it drives out the middle classes). Chicago, still losing population, has completely transformed with 100ks of people living downtown that it didn't have 15 years ago and
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Replying to @ElamBend @random_eddie and
is now the most educated city (college grads) among large cities in the country. A complete inversion of 30 years ago.
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see also: Conway's Game of Life
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and, for that matter, "quadrature", and Slate Star Codex's model of how signalling works where you never want the same signal as near by social classes you get waves propogating from the core
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