How do cities grow?

Posted by Infra on Thursday, December 13th, 2018

How do cities grow? On the surface, this question has a pretty simple answer. Cities grow out. They start out small, and as more people move in, they get bigger. Sure, cities grow up, too, but here in the United States cities really grow out. But there’s more to it than that. Cities grow out faster now than they did 150 years ago. And they don’t always grow evenly out from the center. Why?

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Tags: cities, City Beautiful, development, history of cities, metropolis, mobility, transportation

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