Is The United States SET? Or Will New Major Cities Pop Up?

[.!WAR MIKEY!.]

Is The United States SET? Or Will New Major Cities Pop Up?

[Zaroku]

I believe that the wealthy, will form their own communities, with their own cops, hospitals, and schools.

Places like Hillsboro Ca, Malibu, Augora hills, Thousand Oaks,etc.
Places where there is no public transportation, no city buses, no apartments for rent, and if they do have rentals, the rent, and qualifications needed to rent will keep avg people out.

Gardeners make six figs in hillsboro ca.

realtors know if they bring in a messed up person to buy, then they will not get listings, and be black balled.

it's already happening.

[GhostofDempsey]

I can see smaller or medium sized cities growing, as some of the larger ones begin to shrink. With the increase in telework opportunities, companies can scale down their brick and mortar footprint and save money on leasing and real estate. Which means someone who lands a good job in a big city but wants to get more **** for their buck, can now live/work in a smaller city with lower cost of living. Land a good paying job in NYC but live/work from upstate NY where your money goes much farther in a smaller city.

[JimRaynor]

Definitely new major cities will pop up, and new cities will over take old cities. Take Detroit for example, it was one of the most populated booming cities in the 50's-60's in the whole country, and it was over taken by many others.


As soon as these incredibly large cities begin crumbling under their own weight whether its from over population or bad economic and political policies, you'll see new ones pop up to take their place.

[Removed Now]

I believe in certain states it’s pretty easy to create an city.

[billeau2]

Is The United States SET? Or Will New Major Cities Pop Up?

Thats a great question! If you could do me a favor. When you have a few minutes look at the following:



What you will see is how cities have changed. Back far enough in the day and we might kick it in "GermanTown" and for a while Brooklyn Ny was the fougth largest city in the nation... etc etc.

And Baltimore? in the 1840's became the second city after New York to surpass 100k.

Cities do change! As we speak Phoenix is becoming really really big and might rival LA the way Baltimore rivaled New York City. Reno Nevada is also growing along with Salt Lake City and other western, areas impacted by California.

Also, when the borders become smaller because of natural disasters this will also affect the country. We may well lose new Orleans One of my favorite places... Even LA is threatened. As a matter of fact, in about 100 years I would expect to see Phoenix engulf the part of LA not on the shore, and become a mega-city.

Finally... Look at how things have changed in your lifetime, assuming you are at least 25 years old... Baltimore has lost almost half her population, as has Detriot...even more for Detroit.

[billeau2]

I can see smaller or medium sized cities growing, as some of the larger ones begin to shrink. With the increase in telework opportunities, companies can scale down their brick and mortar footprint and save money on leasing and real estate. Which means someone who lands a good job in a big city but wants to get more **** for their buck, can now live/work in a smaller city with lower cost of living. Land a good paying job in NYC but live/work from upstate NY where your money goes much farther in a smaller city.

Yup. Telecommuting and trains that can go incredible speeds will eventually make LA to New York a commute. We already have the technology using magnets.

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With the exception of a handful of exceptionally long-lived cities like Rome, most cities are pretty short-lived as population centers.

The human population of San Francisco in pre-Columbian times was in the single digits (almost uninhabited). It was 50 people in 1844, broke 100k in the 1860s and is now around a million. 200 years from now it might be nothing again. It might be a nature reserve with "cute" antique skysc****rs scattered about.

When I see people announcing that the world will end because of some projection about a coastline changing over the next 500 years, I wonder if they realize that city probably won't even be there anymore in half of that time based on the average historical migration of urban populations following jobs, fleeing crime, the secession of states to form new countries, etc.

Like billeau says, telecommuting & transit speeds will cause rapid population dispersion over the next couple centuries.

Right now we are in a weird transitional phase where we are technically still experiencing "urbanization" (rural populations are being financially excluded & politically marginalized until they're forced to move into the cities) but not as quickly as people who live in major metro areas are fleeing into smaller cities with populations under 100k.

I'm hoping that trend eventually turns into a full reversal and we actually see the US regenerate its rural population for the sake of preserving a stable middle class. A fully urbanized population is a recipe for massive income gaps and totalitarian government.

[Tony Trick-Pony]

I think cities generally come about because of location. Many of the great cities started by rivers or some body of water for trade. Mountain communities were usually very behind other places from isolation.

However, we're in different times with different means of transporting goods and conducting trade but either way, it will all be economic for sure. I don't see anything major coming up for a long time but never say never.

[.!WAR MIKEY!.]

Thats a great question! If you could do me a favor. When you have a few minutes look at the following:



What you will see is how cities have changed. Back far enough in the day and we might kick it in "GermanTown" and for a while Brooklyn Ny was the fougth largest city in the nation... etc etc.

And Baltimore? in the 1840's became the second city after New York to surpass 100k.

Cities do change! As we speak Phoenix is becoming really really big and might rival LA the way Baltimore rivaled New York City. Reno Nevada is also growing along with Salt Lake City and other western, areas impacted by California.

Also, when the borders become smaller because of natural disasters this will also affect the country. We may well lose new Orleans One of my favorite places... Even LA is threatened. As a matter of fact, in about 100 years I would expect to see Phoenix engulf the part of LA not on the shore, and become a mega-city.

Finally... Look at how things have changed in your lifetime, assuming you are at least 25 years old... Baltimore has lost almost half her population, as has Detriot...even more for Detroit.

Good points how cities can change, I am from Phoenix and it has changed and grew alot since my teens, traffic still not anywhere close to bad like LA is and hope it never gets their but its starting to get bad here and there, what I like about Phoenix is we grow out not up so the density is not that bad. We only have a handfull of tall buildings and you would think we would have alot more since we are what the 5th largest city in the U.S. but naw hell if you compare our skyline vs any other major city we are trump by every other but I like it cause like I said keeps the density down of people in one location.

I know alot of people move here from California, hell we moved here from Cali lol, I know alot of people from cali are moving to Las Vegas or Phoenix.

and I knew Detroit has pretty much lost its glory but didn't know that about Baltimore. crazy.

I foudn this gif pretty cool shows the growth of NY from the 1813 to now


And I see how cities can change but I guess what I was really wondering is can a new Major city pop out of no where anymore? Its not like the U.S. has anymore large industry for isntance GOLD RUSH, Or Oil, etc that can create a town out of nowhere.