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Such strips were commonly known as taxpayer strips when the streetcar was king - they were built to put land into some productive use so that landowners could afford to pay their property taxes while they waited for demand for something profitable to show up. Often it didn't because the...

Fantastic attitude kmp. Never mind.

I enjoyed hearing/reading the xenophobic conservative Texan media response to the 2010 census: "Texas grew by 20% to 25 million!" <xenophobic conservative boner> "Half of that growth was due to international immigration!" <boner shrinkage> "More than half of the growth in the domestically born...

According to the census, both the urbanized areas of Riverside/SB (at 3546 people per square mile) and Phoenix (at 3165 per square mile) consume less land per capita than the Boston area (2232 per square mile). The Southwest has space, but it doesn't have water. Lots are tiny. Once you're 5...

Well both Phoenix and Riverside/San Bernardino are going to beat Seattle to it by 2020. What will you do then?

Ya, DFW added 250,000 people in the last two years. I'd say thank you for the additional seats in congress, but they probably won't be occupied by anyone I vote for in Texas. - Love, lonely "dumbocrat" in Dallas :(

nothing paved, no water/sewer, just septic - just subdivided on spec who knows when. similar to situation around california city in the mojave. not an uncommon sight in the west.

Personally I think it's remarkable that the New York area experienced more population growth than any area except DFW, given the amount of domestically born out-migration from mature cities. It really speaks to NYC's continuing role as a gateway to the US. Same goes for LA, which came in 4th in...

The figures released today were 7/1/12 population estimates for counties and MSAs. Actually JohnAKeith and kmp, if you look at the rate of growth, Boston and NY fall well out of the top 20 altogether. By rate the top 20 are (I've excluded metros under 500,000): Austin-Round Rock, TX 1,716,286...

I've pasted the 20 fastest growing (2010-2012 in absolute terms, not by rate) here and read around a bit. Two in the Northeast (quite a turnaround - Boston and New York, unless you count Washington), none in the Midwest. Boston includes Suffolk, Essex, Norfolk, Middlesex, Plymouth, Rockingham...

Re: The Point (Boylston/Brookline) Well I didn't say displacement wasn't problematic (in fact I said in a city where it inevitably leads to trading down it usually is), and yes urban renewal was certainly another case of that. As far as stable neighborhoods go, sounds like an idealized...

Re: The Point (Boylston/Brookline) Yes it is bad form, I edited, thank you. I'm racking my brain trying to remember where I read one particular article about the stages of gentrification (can't find it because a ton has been written about the stages of gentrification). I think most urban...

Re: The Point (Boylston/Brookline) On the subject of Jane Jacobs and rents: http://www.newrepublic.com/article/112422/gentrifications-real-problem-monotony# The Real Problem with Gentrification A phenomenon that revived cities can also make them monotonous BY INGA SAFFRON A funny thing...

I did Career Discovery in Summer 2001. Great experience. But yes, expensive.

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