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Originally Posted by iheartthed
It's still pretty rare in the U.S. And most of the places in the U.S. that have strong controls would never call it a "green belt".
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Well, the US cities have resumed their growth for the first time in decades. In a majority of them, the city or the inner city grew faster than their metro area between 2010-2020. In fact, it was inspired by this US back to the city phenomenon that I opened the Downtown thread.
But back to Europe, since Germany resumed its role as the economic powerhouse of Europe somewhere in the late 2000's, they've been under an amazing urban renaissance. Most of their major cities are growing like crazy. Leipzig, mentioned on the article, is the fastest one, but also Berlin, Hamburg, Frankfurt, Munich.
Same thing in Britain, starting on the 1990's, Scandinavia, Belgium, every place where urban decay was strong. The aricle noticed that as well: in Spain, where cities were very dense and didn't experienced much urban decay, suburbanization keeps going. Same for Eastern Europe, where suburbanization is still a more recent phenomenon, a bit like Latin America.