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Originally Posted by Steely Dan
chicago growing like toronto is not going to happen anytime soon.
not only does toronto get like 10x more immigrants, it's also a metro area that actually enacts measures to curtail sprawl and "force" denser development.
if free-for-all chicagoland had the population growth of metro toronto over the past 5 decades or so, the sprawl would probably stretch west to the fucking mississippi river by now  .
minneapolis is a much more realistic target to shoot for.
but again, without toronto-style controls in place, more people in chicagoland will just mean more mind-numbing sprawl (a big problem in the twin cities as well). |
I decided to check it again, and actually Minneapolis is not doing much worse than Toronto:
------------------ 2020/2021 ------- 2010/2011 ------- 2000/2001 ------- 1990/1991
Toronto ------------ 7.568.308 ---- 6.801.391 ---- 5.758.940 ---- 4.827.910 ---- 11,30% ---- 18,10% ---- 19,30%
Minneapolis -------- 3.635.128 ---- 3.279.833 ---- 2.968.806 ---- 2.538.834 ---- 10,83% ---- 10,48% ---- 16,94%
Even though Chicago might knock Milwaukee and Rockford doors with such explosive growth, we would certainly see lots of action in the city proper, and even in NW IN and So Cook.
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Originally Posted by JManc
Toronto is Canada's New York so I don't expect other major US cities to grow and develop on that level. Some are growing in population at same levels but not transforming their urban fabric like Toronto.
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Dallas and Houston manage to grow much faster than Toronto. It would be nice if Chicago could capture some of that growth, after all, Chicago and Dallas have always performed kinda similar economic roles.