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Originally Posted by Rail Claimore
I don't disagree with that assessment, maybe it's more appropriate to say the early and mid 2000's, before the market crash, was sort of the swan song of suburban growth as we traditionally think of it.
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yeah, there was certainly a big downshift in chicagoland that began in the '00s, and then dropped like a hammer in '10s.
but i don't think that necessarily applies to fast growth places like dallas.
2010 - 2020 population growth:
dallas city proper: +106,563
fort worth city proper: +177,709
DFW outside the cities: +926,901
that +900K figure is a pretty damn big meatball.
i know those kinds of growth numbers wet the panties of many SSPers, but i'm less enamored with growth for the sake of growth if it mostly means ripping up more prairie for yet another 500 sq. miles of subdivisions and power centers held within a matrix of 6-lane stroads.
quality of growth >>> quantity of growth
Seattle seems to be "growing right", at least better than most major fast-growth US metro areas.