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Originally Posted by TexasPlaya
Strong growth rate drove every major world city. The only thing NYC had going for it, urbanity wise, is the time period in which it had its longest sustained growth.
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I don't know what any of this means.
No, not every major world city on this list has a strong growth rate. Houston is a big outlier.
And your second sentence makes no sense. Urbanity has nothing to do with sustained growth, and NYC isn't an outlier on the list anyways. It's smack dab in the middle.
And its urban form has always been an outlier in the U.S. regardless of local, period-specific growth rates.
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Originally Posted by TexasPlaya
I'm sure most of the world cities' residents would love to live in a place like Houston, DFW, or ATL.
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No doubt, as most the world is poor, and anywhere in the U.S. would be extremely attractive. But the attraction of these cities has nothing to do with urbanity. If anything, for many poor people from the developing world, the relative lack of urbanity would be quite appealing.