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Originally Posted by Cirrus

Common story all over the US:

Ofc I enjoy complicating things. It turns out that what was common 'conventional wisdom' in the Great American Petrie Dish is changing.

Renowned urbanist and author of the 2002 book "The Rise of the Creative Class," Richard Florida, has recently recanted his trend-driving concepts of the last decade. In fact I can recall then Mayor Hickenlooper heralding the title's concepts as many did. But as described by Noah Smith in his Bloomberg piece Rise of the Creative Class Worked a Little Too Well.

It’s the rare public intellectual who admits to making big mistakes. Usually, the rule is to defend everything you’ve ever said, in an attempt to maintain a reputation for wisdom. Richard Florida, the noted urbanist and professor at the Rotman School of Management at the University of Toronto, is among the select few to go back and reevaluate his big ideas.

So Florida wrote a new, follow-up book.

In a new book titled “The New Urban Crisis,” Florida reverses much of his earlier optimism about the potential of knowledge-hub cities. These metropolises, he contends, have now become engines of inequality and exclusion.

Speaking of "equity," transit needs and strategies including city v suburbs, Richard Florida isn't the only person making observations.

Study points to inefficiencies in Dallas mass transit
October 24, 2017 Provided by: University of Texas at Arlington

"The city of Dallas could experience an even higher concentration of poverty if transportation practices remain the same," said Hamidi, who also is a UTA urban planning assistant professor in the College of Architecture, Planning and Public Affairs. "From the planning perspective, these trends would cause the city to be more spatially segregated, especially in economic terms, and consequently the city could experience even more isolation of areas with poverty concentration."

Turns out that a majority of Dallas jobs are in the suburbs. Not a big surprise for Dallas but what about urban poster child Portland?

TriMet: Ridership down because riders changing
October 05, 2017 by Jim Redden - Portland Tribune

New demographics show need for transit from inner to outer areas as regional transit agency plans for the future

Put simply, the newest residents in Portland's inner neighborhoods don't ride buses as often as the former residents who have been displaced to East Portland, Gresham, and parts of Clackamas County. And the creation of self-sufficient walkable neighborhoods has reduced the need for bus trips even more.

What about Denver peer city Minneapolis?
Low-wage jobs are moving to distant suburbs. How will workers get there?
OCTOBER 30, 2017 By Eric Roper - Star Tribune

The Amazon bus arrives before dawn each day in the Cedar-Riverside area of Minneapolis, delivering workers from a night of packing orders at the company’s Shakopee warehouse. Around the corner, day-shift employees climb aboard another coach headed south.

While Amazon can afford to do this what about the rest?

At the same time, an increasing number of blue-collar jobs are moving outward to burgeoning job centers near the metro’s edge, upending a downtown-centric transit system that once reliably served factories in Minneapolis and St. Paul.