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Suburbs and inner cities
• Suburban residents and jobs came from somewhere
• Growth now limited to suburbs
• Segregation by class, race
• Falling tax income, rising service needs
• Spatial mismatch: jobs moved, poor didn’t
Suburbanization and Technology
• Suburbanization happens because of transportation technology– Cars and Freeways– Mass Transit
Suburbs and inner cities
• But agglomeration still matters
• And immigrants still arrive in cities
• Increasing redevelopment of downtowns
– LoDo in Denver
– Battery Park in NYC
– Jack London Square in Oakland
– Train station in Sacramento
Suburbs and inner cities
• People still want to live in or near the city
• immigrants still arrive in cities• Increasing redevelopment of
downtowns–LoDo –Lower Downtown Denver–Battery Park in NYC–Jack London Square in Oakland–The Heights in Houston
Megalopolis
• Sometimes called Bos-Wash– From Boston,
MA to Washington DC
– Population of over 52 million people
Largest Cities in the WorldIncluding neighboring metro areas
1. Tokyo, Japan – 34.4 million**2. Guangzhou, China – 25.4 million3. Seoul, South Korea – 25.2 million4. Shanghai, China – 24.9 million5. New Delhi, India – 23.5 million6. Mumbai, India – 23.2 million7. Mexico City, Mexico – 23 million**8. New York City, USA – 22 million**9. Sao Paulo, Brazil – 21 million**12. Los Angeles, USA – 18.1 million27. Chicago, USA – 9.5 million48. Dallas/Ft Worth, USA – 6.7 million57. Houston, USA – 6.1 million**
** Need to know