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Is there a way to measure which cities are benefiting, and by how much?

Not really, because yuppie employment doesn't move the needle in most places. Pittsburgh is having a real renaissance with a tech scene built around CMU. There are new restaurants where you can get a bone marrow whatever. [But the city is on pace to post another double-digit percentage population loss this decade.]

Edit: I can't read. Pittsburgh has only lost 0.7% since 2010: https://www.census.gov/quickfacts/fact/table/pittsburghcityp....

Did the renaissance start a decade ago? yuppie job growth takes a while to move the needle - first all the nonyuppies have to move out

To this point, the urbanization trend is often overstated because, in the sense that people here use it, it's actually fairly limited. A lot of it is about college educated twenty-somethings moving to a handful of dense urban cores.

Broader urbanization is much less pronounced and, to the degree it's a trend, it's mostly to what a lot of people here would be more inclined to call suburbs than cities.

> But [Pittsburgh] is on pace to post another double-digit percentage population loss this decade.

Out of curiosity, where did you get that information?

I live in PGH and am to lazy to find a link, but can confirm that population is rapidly declining.

> I live in PGH and am to lazy to find a link, but can confirm that population is rapidly declining.

This article claims that the population of Pittsburgh is essentially static:

http://www.post-gazette.com/local/city/2017/05/25/2016-censu...

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