A quick population hypothetical for data fiends
Posted: Sat Dec 16, 2017 7:42 pm
I have a quick hypothetical for RAGers with quick access to the relevant data: if Kansas City retained its 40s/50s urban core population AND continued to annex the land up to the square mileage it has now what would the 2017 population be (approximately)? 700,000? 800,000?
It seems without suburban sprawl and white flight the city could have been a major powerhouse. That wouldn’t be surprising as that’s the narrative of most American cities in the 20th to 21st centuries but I am curious about matching annexed populations with original urban core populations and maybe overlaying with a population growth rate that Johnson County enjoyed in the 60s-90s. Would be interesting to see what Kansas City could have been like without the prevailing suburban cultural fears of its affluent white residents mucking everything up.
It seems without suburban sprawl and white flight the city could have been a major powerhouse. That wouldn’t be surprising as that’s the narrative of most American cities in the 20th to 21st centuries but I am curious about matching annexed populations with original urban core populations and maybe overlaying with a population growth rate that Johnson County enjoyed in the 60s-90s. Would be interesting to see what Kansas City could have been like without the prevailing suburban cultural fears of its affluent white residents mucking everything up.