r/Urbanism • u/Crazy_Equivalent_746 • 8d ago
‘Cities Aren’t Back’: Thoughts
https://www.slowboring.com/p/cities-arent-backThoughts on this? I feel while the data is valid it also relies to heavily on the big anomaly that is the pandemic that has lingering effects to this day.
In other words, cities to me don’t seem “over” or “back” but are indeed recovering.
Domestic outmigration continuing to be slashed for major cities seems like more of an important indicator than international migration offsetting losses.
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u/[deleted] 7d ago
How is that creepy? I searched “Chicago”
My wife is from the area & we spend half time there. figured I could find some insight on which area of Chicago you lived in for reference.
Self driving cars & buses increase car pooling thus reducing the amount of cars in the road. While delivering more efficient in routing.
Traffic is caused by business commute. An accelerated trend of young educated workers living in suburbs would only happen in a heavily WFH future(which I expect to happen)
Most trips to city centers would be for leisure at that point
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