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Originally Posted by RU OX Alum
What urban sprawl? I don't see any city getting bigger, only more subdivisions. That is suburban sprawl.
White flight was wrong. I think gentrification will be good in the long run. I don't think historic neighborhoods should be torn down, and place-names should definitely be kept. But I don't think re-devolpement of urban areas should be halted just because poor people might have to move. Thtat's a pretty weak line of reasoning in my view.
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Some cities (particularly, in the South) have plenty of space surrounding them. In the event that they don't, they sometimes take over some of the surrounding cities (IIRC, this happened in San Antonio and Houston).
And it's not necessarily just "dirt-poor" residents that are being displaced -- sometimes, it's "not-as-wealthy" people that are being moved.