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25 Sept 2019 Conversations with Tyler Alain Bertaud on Cities, Markets, and People
“I think that you had a gentrification of central Paris, so people who used to live in 10 square meters or 12 square meters — there’s still some who do — are living now in 120 square meters, so you have a loss of densities.”
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- Alain Bertaud
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- 25 Sept 2019
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…Why are so many contemporary cities depopulating within the core? Paris is slightly depopulating. I’ve seen data that Los Angeles and Chicago are slightly depopulating. And Chicago is not about the Russian oligarchs, right? Manhattan would be depopulating if not for new arrivals. Why is that happening? And is that some kind of failure of urban labor markets? I don’t think densities have gone down in all those cities. I don’t think, in the case of Paris at least, that it is depopulated. I think that you had a gentrification of central Paris, so people who used to live in 10 square meters or 12 square meters — there’s still some who do — are living now in 120 square meters, so you have a loss of densities. It doesn’t mean a loss of population in this sense. New York, Manhattan had a density which was two or three times higher than it is now. I don’t think you can say that Manhattan is depopulated. But you have, yourself, moved to Glen Rock, New Jersey, right?…
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