Hawke comments on Half of America’s Cities Are Depopulating. We Could Be Headed for a Ghost Town Era.

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By studying population trends and forecasting models, researchers have come to believe that nearly 15,000 U.S. cities will face noticeable depopulation by 2100.
Populated areas of the cities in question could experience a decline of up to 44 percent.
Projections call for the biggest drops in city populations to occur in the Northeast and Midwest.

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[–] Hawke@lemmy.world 6 points 4 months ago

Varies by jurisdiction.

In the US a lot of places are defined by the structure of the government rather than anything to do with their size.

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