![]() University-educated young people-of whom there are more each year-are getting married and having children ever later. Social changes are also working against the suburbs and in favour of cities. In New York City, for example, the number of murders fell from 2,200 per year in 1990 to 414 last year. Cities in the Western world are, for the most part, cleaner, less criminal and better managed than they were 30 years ago. But in recent years these trends have reversed. Pollution, rising crime rates and poor public schools gave them ever more reason to go. The rise of commuter railways and then the automobile made it easier for wealthy people to move out of city centres to bigger, more spacious suburban homes. For much of the 20th century cities across the rich world lost population thanks to suburbanisation. The best explanation is that it is the bounce-back from urban decline. ![]()
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