Evaluating America's Legacy Cities

“Regenerating America’s Legacy Cities” shows perfect image of the top cities in the United States. Over the past few decades these legacy cities have experienced sustained job and population loss. This report suggests the mighty obstacles that stand in the way of fundamental change, and suggests directions by which cities can overcome those obstacles. The extremely poor conditions of Detroit and Cleveland make an author doubtful in the sense of progress. There is no demand for housing or any commercial, office and industrial buildings in Detroit and Cleveland. Detroit has demolished nearly one-third of its pre-1950 housing stock, but most of them are abandoned houses and they continue to grow. There are no buyers of the houses and if there are buyers they are investors so there is no public in those houses as well. Entire city blocks may become depopulated and this may cause a lot of troubles. If vacancies increase the …show more content…
So not only cities but also world is looking at young people nowadays because they are the ones who can make a change. Detroit and Cleveland’s population is already decreasing 25.0% and 17.1% respectively between 2000-2010. The concerning part of this decline is the change in population of 25-34 age group is way more than the total population change. Detroit has lost 40.1% of the young population from total lost and Cleveland lost 24.8% of the young population from total lost. Declining of young population in any state or country signals dreadful economy. Whereas the cities like Baltimore, Philadelphia and Pittsburg have gained young population. Baltimore has lost very few people over those 10 years but has gained 11.1% of young population that is incredible. The cities that have more young people can do anything and that’s the reason author feels positive about these cities in future compared to Detroit and