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Industrial cities shrinking

Posted June 28th, 2007 by Tara Murray in Migration, Pennsylvania Demographics, US Demography, Urban Sociology

America’s big industrial cities are shrinking as people move to the South and West and to the suburbs, according to new Census estimates released today (AP via Centre Daily Times). Phoenix is now the country’s fifth-largest city, surpassing Philadelphia.

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  1. News from the PRI Library and Data Archive » Blog Archive » America’s mid-size southern cities growing Says:

    [...] in the country’s large Sun Belt cities has already received a lot of attention. The Christian Science Monitor reports about similar population booms in smaller “inner Sun [...]

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