Paul Kedrosky of Infectious Greed took a look at the rise and fall and rise of US cities, this viz shows the trajectory of the largest 50 US cities in 1920, as well as what happened since.
About this Viz
Los Angeles is the only major US city in 1920 that has not seen a decade with negative growth since. Both Boston and New York saw mid-century population declines, but then rose again. What can we learn from these cities?
What happened to the upper half of the country in 2008? Not a single city in the upper half of the US made the top 50 that year.
