A new study from researchers at the University of Illinois at Chicago says that nearly half of America’s cities will face significant depopulation by the year 2100. Veuer’s Matt Hoffman has the story.
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00:00There goes the neighborhood. According to a new study, that's what many Americans will be saying
00:04as their cities depopulate over the next hundred years. The study was conducted by researchers
00:09Utara Sutradar, Lauren Spearing, and Sybil Darable at the University of Illinois at Chicago.
00:15They attempted to project population trends in the U.S. up to the year 2100, and found that almost
00:20half of America's 30,000 cities would see their population go down by 12 to 23 percent.
00:26To be clear, cities here include smaller municipalities as well as big hubs, and the study says that
00:32denser urban cities are mostly trending in the direction of population growth.
00:36But the study says that in the Northeast and Midwest, even some urban cities may face population
00:41shrinkage, and this phenomenon could lead to a decline in infrastructure in the cities affected,
00:45which of course makes them even less attractive to live in. And despite political anti-immigration
00:50sentiments, the study identified immigration as a factor which could offset these challenges
00:54in some areas. So what does it all mean? Study senior author Sybil Darable told Scientific American,
01:00we need to shift away from growth-based planning, which is going to require an enormous cultural
01:05shift in the planning and engineering of cities.