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Re:US Cities Could Verge on Becoming Ghost Towns by 2100, St... by rayiner on Tuesday January 16, 2024 @11:42AM (#39015348)
Lots of them. “Ghost towns” is an exaggeration. But Detroit has shrunk from 1.8 million to 650,000 and that’s caused tremendous economic problems. Philadelphia has shrunk from over 2 million to about 1.5 million and is stuck in a constant state of stagnation. Chicago has shrunk from 3.6 million to 2.6 million. It’s in much better shape than the other two, but went from being the “Second City” to a one with a questionable future. Baltimore shrank from nearly a million people to under 600,000, and seems to be in a state of terminal decline. Pittsburgh almost hit 700,000, and now is less than half that. The city has enjoyed a recent resurgence due to CMU and biotech, but the prosperity is not widely shared, and the city is kind of a museum to its more prosperous heyday.
Re:US Cities Could Verge on Becoming Ghost Towns by 2100, St... by ArekDymalski on Tuesday January 16, 2024 @12:14PM (#39015801)
These numbers are impressive. Do you have data on the split od these reductions? What percentage moved to the suburbs of the same city, nie mamy moved away and do long?
Re:US Cities Could Verge on Becoming Ghost Towns by 2100, St... by pchristensen on Tuesday January 16, 2024 @02:11PM (#39017523)
I don't think any of the large metro areas have shrunk in population, certainly none significantly. But those metros (St Louis, Detroit, Buffalo, Cleveland, Chicago, etc) have stagnated or grown much more slowly than healthier metros. They have suburbanized a mostly constant population, leading to much higher infrastructure construction and maintenance costs, while devaluing the real estate tax base that supported existing infrastructure in the central cities.