I REMEMBER WHEN THEY TOLD US THE FUTURE WAS URBAN: Joel Kotkin: The exodus continues from America’s biggest cities: Covid, crime and hybrid work are remaking urban life. “Consider that in 1950, the core cities accounted for nearly 24 percent of the U.S. population; today the share is under 15 percent. Between 2010 and 2020, the suburbs and exurbs of the major metropolitan areas accounted for about 90% of all US metropolitan growth; over that time suburbs and exurbs of the major metropolitan areas gained 2.0 million net domestic migrants, while the urban core counties lost 2.7 million.”

Of course, they told us a lot of things.