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Originally Posted by Keep-SA-Lame
I think there's been a shift towards downtown-centric thinking, even if the statistics don't reflect that. If we as a city didn't give a damn about downtown and the inner city, things like the Hemisfair redevelopment and Midtown wouldn't be getting the level of attention and public participation that they are.
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And they (stats) won't show that for a very long time. It also won't mean the end of the burbs, just a change in the way that they are designed and built (sprawl.)
Here is an
article (for those interested and with some free time,) that explains how this is already happening across the country (for those that think it is just me imagining things.)
http://urbanland.uli.org/Articles/2011/Mar/McMahonStrip