America’s Fastest-Growing Small Cities

Coverage of America’s changing urban scene tends to focus heavily on large metropolitan areas and the "megaregions" now often said to dominate the economic future. Often missed has been a slow, but inexorable, shift of migration and economic growth to smaller cities, a geography usually ignored or dismissed, with the exception of college towns, as doomed to lag behind by urban boosters.

In the coming decade, we can expect a growing competition among smaller towns for boomer residents, and their sometimes significant assets.

by Joel Kotkin

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