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Take me back to tomorrow – Some surprising indicators of change in U.S. cities

September 8, 2016 By Jim Chappell

Closed downtown San Diego Nordstrom store
Closed downtown San Diego Nordstrom store.

Like many westerners, I left a rust belt eastern city decades ago, in the belief that the region, and certainly those old east coast cities were goners. So it was with surprise and pleasure that I recently read in Landmarks,[1] the journal of The Landmark Society of Western New York, that residents with choices are moving back into the old downtown, and even more surprising, that nationally, corporate headquarters are also moving back to urban centers from the suburbs at an accelerating rate. Take me back to tomorrow – Some surprising indicators of change in U.S. cities

Filed Under: Feature Posts, Planning, San Francisco Bay Area, Transportation Tagged With: density, Landmark Society, Parking, San Francisco, SPUR, urban planning

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