Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story:
- By studying population trends and forecasting models, researchers have come to believe that nearly 15,000 U.S. cities will face noticeable depopulation by 2100.
- Populated areas of the cities in question could experience a decline of up to 44 percent.
- Projections call for the biggest drops in city populations to occur in the Northeast and Midwest.
eh, the price curve looks a bit more U-shaped. it goes down first as you go from 1 to 3 stories (because less area usage) but then it can go up again (higher construction cost per floor because higher material strains). i’m not entirely sure where the optimum is.
also btw this was not your question but just to add … i think that it’s important to reserve enough space to streets. not to build lanes, but to build cafes and seating banks and trees there. it’s a typical problem of cities that they figure out that there’s not enough space to build trees, bike lanes, etc. after the houses are built. better reserve space first.