Why Cities Have Lost Their Appeal

Why Cities Have Lost Their Appeal

Over the past half century, media and academic sources repeatedly suggested that increasingly dense cities would dominate the future. Today, this assessment seems grossly dated. Even in the pages of the urbanista New York Times there are widespread fears of an “urban doom loop.” But this, too, is a stretch. Great core cities will not go the way of post-imperial Rome, but their role is being recast as the urban frontier shifts increasingly to the…