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Originally Posted by yuriandrade
Which is roughly the same population they had 50 years ago, when the US had 200 million people.
Ages ago, I posted a thread showing how many inhabitants US metro areas would have today if they kept their share of population they had between 1940-1970. Just kept growing at the national average.
We’d be talking about a 6 million Pittsburgh or a 9 million Detroit (or more, as it would might capture Toledo into its CSA).
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Yeah an interesting thought exercise. Always wondered what the population of say Philly or Detroit or even Chicago would of been in 2020 if say folks didn't flee to the suburbs or they never witnessed population decline after the 60's or 70's.
Granted the people for the most part that did flee are counted in the CSA (unless they really moved else wear), so the loss is not as noticeable on paper if we account for the CSA or even MSA, but the core cities, would of been massive without the pop losses that occurred.
If American cities or even regions did not sprawl as much, if we built our grid and infrastructure like say some Asian or European regions, density wise, folks not spread apart, our cities today would be massive.
Places like Chicago were 3 million at one point. I just wonder what would of happened or what a Chicago of 4 million would of looked like if it was centralized to the core and not spread out. From an urban infrastructure angle.