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Originally Posted by Crawford
Detroit, St. Louis, Cleveland, Pittsburgh, Buffalo would be the obvious examples.
But, in the real world, it's more accurate to say these cities are all stagnant rather than declining. The population is the same, it just shifted to outside city limits.
Also, it's worth mentioning that many booming metros had similar population losses in the core, they just had larger city limits to mask the losses.
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I'd agree with you in that all cities that you mentioned except Detroit are more so stagnating than declining. Another factor to take into account is declining fertility rates and smaller household sizes.
Detroit on the other hand I would say is declining if the mass exodus and abandoned neighborhoods are evidence of that. On top of that, its metro isn't really growing, its been more or less stagnant for many years. Those other cities have all lost 50-60% of their population, whereas Detroit will probably be 1/3 of its 1950 size by the time of the 2020 census.
Despite the substantial population losses in those other cities, they seem to lack any completely abandoned neighborhoods, is there any reason for that?