06-01-2020, 09:03 PM
(05-31-2020, 11:14 PM)dtkvictim Wrote: What sort of cultural reasons are you thinking of? As far as I was aware, a huge part of this was the mass adoption of the car. Subsidizing this was, no doubt, a bad idea, but I think it is pretty good proof that given the option, people are quick to leave. People have been moving to cities for thousands of years, but you'd have a really hard time convincing me that it's for any reason other than being desperate for work. Cities have been disgusting places up until very recently.
I could be wrong, but I think it is in reference to 'white flight'.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_flight
A couple factors in this, without bringing up cultural stuff, is people that were more well off being able to buy quality cars and get to work quickly, wanted nice homes with large® properties, and no longer have to live in the city cores, or close to them, and people that were less well off, finding some financial relief living in the city cores (or close to them), because of cheap public transit.
There seems to be only once occurrence in Canada, but it's hard to call it 'white flight' as it involved Brampton, which is basically a bedroom community of Toronto, and doesn't have much of a core.
But 'white flight' is very common in major American cities. Detroit is an excellent example. Was it cars? Was it cultural? Or was it both?