Aren’t city centres great?
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United States | Urban sprawl AREN’T CITY CENTRES GREAT? NOT ALL AMERICA’S POPULATION MOVEMENTS ARE CENTRIFUGAL. THE FIFTH IN OUR SERIES LOOKS AT A SMALL, BUT SIGNIFICANT, SHIFT IN THE OTHER
DIRECTION A BOOMLET is going on in America's cities. This year, the Brookings Institution and the Fannie Mae Foundation examined 26 cities and found something that would have been
inconceivable a decade ago: every one of them expects its downtown population to grow by 2010. Houston projects that its central-city population will quadruple; even Philadelphia, which has
lost 600,000 people since 1950, foresees a 13% growth by 2010. Chicago expects a whopping 32% jump. This article appeared in the United States section of the print edition under the headline
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