The slow population arc of upstate
One in three towns in New England have barely grown since the Civil War: post and visualization. pic.twitter.com/fJhi8ejrNQ
— Benjamin Schmidt (@benmschmidt) July 25, 2017
Check out the map embedded above depicting the era in which municipalities around the Northeast reached 3/4 of their current size. The green marks the era before 1855 -- and, as you can see, there's a lot of green around Upstate New York.
The map is the creation of Benjamin Schmidt, an assistant professor of history at Northeastern. He discusses the map over at his blog, touching on how it highlights the 19th century shift away from agriculture, the later de-industrialization, as well as the rise of suburbs -- and zooming out, one of the ways the Northeast is different from the rest of the country.
Anyway, this map reminded us a little bit of something one of the national consultants who worked on neighborhood-specific assessments for Rezone Albany said to us, that this part of the country is like the Europe of the United States -- there's a lot of history and slow growth. The challenge is finding a way to embrace that and work with it.
[via @sandypsj]
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