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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Here’s how the WaPo sees it.  The era of Snark Growth May be over:

“Even before covid-19 hit, large urban centers like New York, Los Angeles and Chicago were losing population; more than 90 percent of all population growth since 2010 has taken place in the suburbs or exurbs. Millennials, as a new study from Heartland Forward demonstrates, based on an analysis of census numbers, increasingly head to cities and towns in the middle of the country and away from the supposed “magnets” of New York, Los Angeles and Chicago. The current pestilence is likely to accelerate those shifts, which bear major ramifications for how Americans get to work. Transit ridership was doing poorly before the crisis, declining throughout the country, while telecommuting and driving alone continue to grow. With the specter of contagion, city-dwellers are told to avoid crowded subways, removing a critical element that makes ultradense cities work. In New York, subway traffic is down precipitously, as many commuters now work at home instead. Toronto is eliminating much of its downtown train service. The Washington Metro is also cutting back. Just as progressives and environmentalists hoped the era of automotive dominance and suburban sprawl was coming to end, a globalized world that spreads pandemics quickly will push workers back into their cars and out to the hinterlands.“[/quote]

That's not "the Washington Post," it's Joel Kotkin, and he's been anti-urban for decades. This is just his latest rationalization of it.[/quote]

“Anti-urban.”  Is that the dismissive term for anyone who doesn’t share the GGW/Snark growth/Bowser agenda?[/quote]

You haven't read any Joel Kotkin, have you? Well, you probably have plenty of time now. He's anti-urban. You'll love him.[/quote]

Kotkin seems pretty solid, described by the New York Times as “America’s uber-geographer.”  He’s is a professor in urban studies in Orange County, California. He writes about demographic, social, and economic trends in the U.S. and internationally. He is listed a regular contributor to The Daily Beast and Forbes.com and is on the editorial board of the Orange County Register.  Evidently he does not drink the “smart growth “ Kool-Aid of upzoning America’s walkable neighborhoods into dense urban clusters. Understandably he has his detractors among big development interests, their handmaidens in the DC office of planning, and various urbanistas who blog from mom’s basement for Greater Greater Washington.  [/quote]

Lol did you really just paste a quote from his personal website to boost him? As near as I can tell, he took that from a David Brooks column, not some kind of objective assessment. He's also explicitly called walkability an elitist luxury. [b]He's a lover of suburban sprawl, very consciously[/b].[/quote]

Yup. It's not me saying so. It's HIM saying so.[/quote]

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