Can a city really die? | Financial Times

Opinion piece in the Financial Times special section on City Living.  The author makes a couple points, focusing on San Francisco, and all the coverage on the city's demise.  

First, many times in the past, people say a particular city, including SF is now dead. Second, cities wax and wane, in cycles, and that working in and out of these cycles takes a long time.

A quick read.

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Also see, "What if San Francisco never pulls out of its ‘doom loop’?," from May. I didn't realize that SF's homeless population is equal to 1% of its population.