Believe-it-or-not: 60,000 new residents by 2040?

[emu steve]

For someone with an interest in demography, it would be interesting to see population trends and projections for large cities [[say pop > 500K). Detroit may be 'late to the party' as the number of large cities grow, instead of shrink.

In the case of Detroit, the city may grow while the suburbs shed population.

That is part of a growing trend esp. for downtowns. Read an article yesterday about the development in downtown L.A. It is easy for downtowns to grow as builders put up multi-family units buildings, say 250 - 500 units per building as compared to the effort to build a like number of single family homes in the suburbs.

EDIT: Here is a story about what is happening in downtown L.A. Huge building boom.

http://www.latimes.com/business/la-f...130-story.html

BTW, a lot of the money there is Chinese, Korean, etc.