Huffington Post: Is Charlotte the new Atlanta?
Posted 05-16-2016 at 10:48 AM by The QC
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Originally Posted by JoeP
People tend to make comparisons to Atlanta 30 years ago, but realistically (and population wise) 2010 Charlotte is 1970 Atlanta.
Atlanta was a bigger city proper with a bigger urban fabric at the time though. 285 had just been completed, but no rail. Charlotte has those flipped, though rail is limited.
As someone who has lived in Atlanta for quite some time, I really hope that Charlotte makes the right choices, often hard choices to grow smarter than Atlanta. It still has time to do so.
Atlanta was a bigger city proper with a bigger urban fabric at the time though. 285 had just been completed, but no rail. Charlotte has those flipped, though rail is limited.
As someone who has lived in Atlanta for quite some time, I really hope that Charlotte makes the right choices, often hard choices to grow smarter than Atlanta. It still has time to do so.
That is not exactly true. I have studied population data for decades. Atlanta's metro population (Fulton, Dekalb, Gwinnett) reached 1.0 million in 1960 census. In 1970 census, the population reached approximately 1.5 million with the additions of Cobb and and Clayton Counties. In 1983, the metro increased to 18 counties and the population increased to 2.1 million. By 1990, the population was approximately 2.8 million and around 3.6 million in 1996 when the Olympics came to town.
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