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Demographia, Publisher "Demographia World Urban Areas" and "Demographia International Housing Affordability"

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New Residential Building Permits in the US Major Metros with units per 1,000

[Gianmatteo Costanza @emissionite]

Consultants hired for California’s high-speed rail earned an average of $427K per engineer.

This is how $16B was spent to connect, checks notes, Bakersfield and Merced, without laying a single track.

Abundance Democrats, is this what we want to stand for?

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SUBURBANIZATION IN PARIS: From the 1999 census to the 2022 census, the suburbs (outside the ville de Paris) added 1.467 million population, while the ville lost 10,000 (based on INSEE data)

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Paris 150 year population low: INSEE, France's national statistical bureau, reports that the ville de Paris population was 2.048 million at January 1, 2026. This is the lowest ville de Paris population since 1876.

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2024 Work Access Mode. Walking leads transit in most major metro areas.
https://t.co/XhOZUiCEcz

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Demographia International Housing Affordability 2024
Ratings for 97 major markets in 8 nations
https://t.co/tjvG1oVhZ3

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World Bank Total Fertility Rates (TFR) all 217 reporting geographies (2023 estimates)
https://t.co/l8QEn0i7as

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Demographia World Urban Areas: 20th Edition. Pop, Land Area, density for known urban areas 500,000 & Over
https://t.co/F52ZNq4jp4

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World Bank 2023 Total Fertility Rates for 217 geographies. https://t.co/ABMIqTevsB

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California high-speed rail: The sunk cost fallacy (By John Coupal: https://t.co/s9Va1cDkDj

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Changing Demographics of Canada. Past 5 years, net internal migration losses in CMAs, areas outside CMAs and CAs gain the most. https://t.co/udJ3K2qSRG

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Moving Away from Density to Less Dense Detached Housing Areas: https://t.co/3uzSfA3b59

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@songpinganq Actually China has no 15-minute cities. Cities are economic (metropolitan) or physical organisms (built up urban areas). The only examples are small parts of cities... they may be 15 minute neighborhoods in rare cases, but that is a small cry from 15 minute cities.

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@songpinganq Actually

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James Rodriguez Business Insider: Austin more houses than SF. See https://t.co/ZtHmaGhVXH. Because Texas builds on urban periphery but not in California, where the land market has been destroyed.

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Moving away from density --- net domestic domestic migrants in major metro counties: Movers from average urban densities of 11,500, compared to 2,100 for those moving in. https://t.co/wGwqSl8ndy

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Americans moving away from density

https://t.co/5sMOFGAMpe

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Net Domestic Migration Gains: 2000-2023: FL 3.4M, TX 2.7M, NC 1.5M, AZ 1.4M, GA 1.0M, SC 960,000
https://t.co/AGCsd1PpFU

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Net Domestic Migration Losses: 2000-2023: NY 4.0M, CA 3.8M, IL 1.9M, NJ 1.1M
https://t.co/AGCsd1ORQm

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NET DOMESTIC MIGRATION 2000-2023: https://t.co/SO66zPYdwG