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Article: Growing up, growing out: some rust belt cities sprawl without population growth. (Currents).(Statistical Data Included)
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- E Magazine
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- May 1, 2002
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Taking a tour of historic sites in the old city of Baltimore can be a rewarding experience--until you turn a corner in the central business district and find ... devastation. What was described in the guidebooks as a block of pubs with architecture reminiscent of London is now mostly rubble and boarded-up bars.
What happened to Baltimore? The same thing that transformed other cities in the so-called Rust Belt, which stretches from the Northeast into the Midwest. These were the company towns, engines of American industrialization left in the dust of the great migration to the Sun Belt and the suburbs. But recent research shows that even declining cities can grow, ...