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Originally Posted by The North One
You don't seem to understand any of the "realities" of nuance and you definitely don't understand anything happening in Detroit. You're just screaming numbers that everybody already knows, everybody knows the south and west sides are hollowing out that doesn't change the fact central Chicago is experiencing all the major growth, not the suburbs. Suburb growth at the expensive of the city is not some exclusive to "old" cities either it's happened in cities all over the country and most of it continues.
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I don’t know if you’ve been following the conversation but Crawford and the urban politician have been arguing that the suburbs have not grown and the majority of the growth is in the core.
They were saying this to complain about Dallas having all suburban growth, somebody pointed out that Chicago wasn’t any different in that regard, and he is right:
Chicago land has grown by 90k people in 7 years in the same town the city of Chicago has only grown by 9k
The downtown is part of the city of Chicago, the vast majority of growth that has occurred in the metro Chicago area has occurred outside the city. Which is for some reason very hard for these guys to come to terms with.
This doesn’t mean that Chicago isn’t haveing good urban development (it is) as are most downtowns in our current time which is a major change from previous development trends.
Now if Crawford or you or urban politician want to actually provide some numerical proof that disproves what I have shown I’d be happy to entertain it but telling me “trust me, the numbers are wrong” is asinine
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