Here is a list of the biggest U.S. cities by population in 1900: New York, Chicago, Philadelphia, St. Louis, Boston, Baltimore, Cleveland, Buffalo, San Francisco and Cincinnati. Some of those cities have continued to thrive, but others have faded. This year Baltimore is the 30th biggest city, Cleveland 54th, St. Louis 75th and Buffalo 79th. Is the shrinkage of some American cities, towns and villages an inevitable consequence of economic change or something to be vigorously resisted? Surprisingly, even in the era of Zoom, Slack and other collaboration tools, people on the leading edge of new technologies still end up working in the same few big, crowded, expensive metro areas.

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