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| Detroit, circa 1955 |
For USA demography hounds, it is fun to see a table like this put together. There are some neat finds in the table such as 1870 New York City having more residents than all but the 11th biggest cities in the USA today. A 1910 New York City would have been bigger than all cities in the USA even today, except today's New York City.
When you compare the cities of old with today, you can almost hear the wagon wheels strolling across cobbled streets. You can almost see the smokestacks belching black plumes. You can almost see horses pulling along barges along a sunlit Erie Canal.
To be sure, cities wax and wane. Much of that is owing to technological changes whether in transportation or the production of electricity.
It should make anyone wonder how men who could run cities like Cleveland in 1930, which is 89 years ago, but women and men can not run cities comparable cities like San Francisco with with 17,124 fewer persons today.
For more on Detroit, check out WHY DID DETROIT COLLAPSE?
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