People always complain about how the great urban cities peaked in the 50s and going down since then with suburbs dominating, but there is evidence that shows that is not completely true.
EVIDENCE A: NYC is at its all time population high (and I'm not talking about metro, I"M talking about the city).
EVIDENCE B: LA is at its all time population high and is still growing like a freight train. LA now has over 4,000,000 and will probably have 4,200,000 by 2010.
Evidence C: SF is still about at its all time high. In dropped a little from the 2000 census but that is when the city was full of couchsurfers trying to cash in on tech. The city is still more or less at its all time high. (of course it is hard for it to go up much there because it is filled in, but they will squeeze in more with new projects).
So it seems not all cities only have increasing metros and suburbs with the city pop small compared to 1940-1950.
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