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Stuart Staniford on October 22, 2005 - 2:45pm

So the theory would be that since the middle class were busy rehabilitating cities rather than building out on the fringe the typical relationship between miles and GDP was broken. Interesting.

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Donal on October 22, 2005 - 3:34pm

I worked on a fair amount of gentrification in the late 70s/early 80s in Takoma Park, Woodley/Zoo, and other areas of Northwest DC. So many places were going condo that the renters weren't too thrilled to see us show up with measuring tapes. There was a lot of infill, too, like Foxhall Crescents on the old Rockefeller land.

Of course, we were building new towns and suburbs like gangbusters, too.