Ah, the classic flight to the suburbs, but with a twist! Click through and look closely, and at the very center of the biggest cities – within a stone’s throw of downtown – you’ll see a tiny, resurgent dot of blue. Apparently, at some point in recent history, a home address amongst the skyscrapers became desirable again. Even in the City of Detroit, which dropped a full quarter of its citizens in the last decade, downtown is flashing the signs of a comeback.
I've got to say that the continued sprawl is very depressing to me. I have a gut feeling that we are really going to regret that we built so much so far from our city centers in the previous decade. Hopefully I am wrong. I'm glad that there have been some people moving back into our downtowns, but driving around downtown Dayton last week, I didn't see too many new people down there.
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