Economic Growth Without More People

10 April 2002 - 8:00am

A local economy can boom, even if the area's population is not growing.

St. Louis and Pittsburgh are the nation’s two leading examples of a phenomenon known as "growth without growth" — places where the economy is growing strong even though the population isn’t. A local economy can boom, even if the area's population is not growing. says a new Brookings Institution report that is the subject of WilliamFulton's latest economic development column for Governing magazine.

Source: California Planning and Development Report, April 10, 2002
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Its very unsuitability for an urban center justifies its current usage as a suburban or ex-urban pattern.