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Article: Redefining America's cities: gold coast cities.
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- Nation's Cities Weekly
- Article date:
- April 24, 2006
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Nation's Cities Weekly will periodically explore the various types of cities identified in NLC's new report "From Meltingpot Cities to Boomtowns: Redefining How We Talk about America's Cities."
NLC recently released a new study that attempts to redefine how people think and talk about cities. The report, which analyzed nearly 1,000 cities from 25,000 to 500,000 in population, compared cities across a variety of characteristics and offers six new types of cities--spread cities, gold coast cities, metro centers, meltingpot cities, boomtowns and centerville. Here, gold coast cities are further explored.
Gold coast cities have older, wealthier and more ...