Times-Picayune: How New Orleans is Shrinking
One key stat in the first few paragraphs of an article exploring the challenges of managing the shrinking city:
ESRI, a leading market research firm, projects New Orleans will gain only 15,000 residents in the next five years.
The city now has about 300,000 residents, down to about 1/2 its peak population of 627,000 in 1960. Now, here’s the part that I didn’t know: “About half of the population loss of the past 50 years happened before the levees breached.”
by Adena Schutzberg on 11/24 at 06:00 AM |
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