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Originally Posted by Crawford
The thing is, even though Dallas is growing like wildfire, and Chicago stagnant, core Chicago has like 10x as much traditional urban growth. So it isn't clear that just adding regional population does anything for urbanity. LA has 19 million in its CSA yet doesn't have the traditional urbanity of a Spanish metro of 1 million.
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But why should other cities be held to a Chicago or NYC-type standard for urbanity?
The reality is that the socio-economic factors of today will never allow relatively young cities to become as urban as places that largely matured in the early 20th century.
Still, in spite of that reality, these relatively young cities are still doing quite a respectable job in building environments that are urban enough and should be recognized and applauded for it.
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