That's really kind of sad that we only expect even physically large cities like Atlanta to grow by aquiring more land. I'd always found it odd that a city like Atlanta, with a state and metro with booming population, was losing population and wasn't able to capture those many hundreds of thousands that found their home in the state and metro area over the past few decades. To me, there should have been no reason for a city of its physical size, and with so much room to fill in, amongst a booming state and metro, that the population fell for so long. It's good to see the city is finally beginning to capitalize, in the form of new residents, off of this massive growth.
But, then again, I guess it's not all that surprising the city continued to lose despite the rapid metro growth, as the metro really took off after the war when almost all urban growth was sprawl.
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Last edited by LMich; Jul 9, 2007 at 10:25 AM.
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