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Originally Posted by iheartthed
I can speak pretty authoritatively of Detroit, but it absolutely would not have deteriorated as badly as it did if the city government had more control over regional land use policies. I suspect that other places in the Midwest would be similar.
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Agreed, but that isn't the main difference between Canadian/U.S. cities. A deamalgamated Toronto probably wouldn't be less healthy city and region, and I'm not sure if an amalgamated Detroit would be in much better shape than today, especially if said amalgamation had occurred in the late 60's through 2000 or so.
The differences are mostly nation-specific. Race, immigration, inequality, govt. intervention in housing markets, no Sunbelt, no GI Bill, etc.