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Originally Posted by Docere
Scranton is quite the outlier, a polycentric industrial region. To a lesser extent that's true of Pittsburgh as well; although Pittsburgh was clearly the dominant city there were a lot of interconnected smaller industrial centers
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Right, Scranton, while it was "big," was never truly a centralized "big city". It was more a string of mining towns, sort of a mini-Ruhr. Wilkes Barre is almost as important, and there are a bunch of other towns.
Scranton's relative decline seems to have been halted as it's now exurban NYC, with the furthest reaches of cheap sprawl, upcoming commuter rail, as well as mass Hispanic migration from NYC proper and adjacent towns.
Scranton proper is kinda weird. It's completely intact, with practically no visible decline, but it also feels 50 years behind and no gentrification. You could film a 1970's movie with little effort.
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