An article in NYT recently suggested that more cities are growing out = suburbs, than are growing in = dense downtowns.
My respond is just you wait. The cities that are growing in/up and becoming more dense are those cities leading the economy of the 21st century.
Example: New York, Los Angeles, and Chicago - our three largest cities, all are growing in/up, not out.
Los Angeles Mayor Eric M Garcetti (NYT, April 12, 2017) says he is thinking hard about the new look of the city, and to "engage Angelenos at street lvel in a way the city had to when the car was king."
I like that - - the car being reported in the past tense.
100 Years ago Daniel Burnham, who redesigned Chicago for the new 20th century, said to "think no small thoughts." Garcetti, to his credit, is thinking the same way. He said he envisions "These are moments to inspire and connect. We should seize that moment. I'm looking for some of those iconic moments"
Garcetti is right. This is the time to dream and redesign how cities are constructed, and how we live. Trains, mixed used zoning, dense walkable neighborhoods are coming to both big and small cities nationwide.
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