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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Replying to @ElamBend @mr_archenemy and
"Chicago has completely transformed ... A complete inversion" You're doing your part!
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Replying to @random_eddie @mr_archenemy and
It's been fascinating to watch, especially as the change spreads organically
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Replying to @ElamBend @mr_archenemy and
There's been cranes omnipresent in the ATL skyline for fifty years, there's always a new skyscraper going up, shiny new office buildings and condos, downtown and midtown getting upgraded block by block... but never more than 100 yards from someplace you don't want to be at night.
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Replying to @random_eddie @ElamBend and
... but the pockets are getting bigger. Huge new planned urban developments, mixed use, walkable, high-end shops, wide streets, good lighting, all that stuff under one umbrella project name (see "Atlantic Station") on a piece of downtown property large enough to push others out.
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Replying to @random_eddie @ElamBend and
Meanwhile the suburbs keep getting more suburban, more bigger, more further away. Downtown has been under perpetual construction, getting taller and denser and shinier, but the suburbs have been spreading out like kudzu on an abandoned farm.
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Replying to @random_eddie @ElamBend and
There's always a new subdivision under construction just down the road a piece, always a new Starbucks, always a new dentist's office next to the Jimmy John's. And they're always nice. And affordable. And an hour commute to get downtown, god forbid you have to go there.
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Replying to @random_eddie @ElamBend and
Maybe that's the future - the suburbs becoming cities of their own, replacing the cities that were destroyed in the '60s. Like Cambridge and Somerville vs. Boston - who crosses the Charles River anymore?
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not the future; the past I linked to "Edge City" earlier in this thread
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Replying to @MorlockP @riyenakshi and
well, sure - but we haven't all had time to read in since then
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