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CityLab Daily: Are Americans Really Fleeing to the Suburbs?
Also: So much for Seattle’s “Amazon tax,” and you can’t fix transit by destroying it.
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Hold your horses: When the Census Bureau releases its municipal population estimates each spring, a kind of Urbanist Derby follows, with quick takes on America’s city vs. suburb horserace based on which places are growing and shrinking. This year, many observers thought the suburbs came out with an advantage, as they grew faster in population than central cities did.