The book is obvious bullshit. While it's true that the country is urbanizing and suburbanizing, every state in the country except three grew in population in the 2010s, despite it being the second-lowest decade for population growth in American history. The percentage of people moving has also been steeply declining. The crime trends the author talks about are also being reversed.
The book is obvious bullshit. While it's true that the country is urbanizing and suburbanizing, every state in the country except three grew in population in the 2010s, despite it being the second-lowest decade for population growth in American history. The percentage of people moving has also been steeply declining. The crime trends the author talks about are also being reversed.
Seems somewhat similar to Michael Porter's paper: https://hbr.org/1998/11/clusters-and-the-new-economics-of-competition A lot of state and local government use this to justify tax subsidies to lure a large business, but there are certainly examples of it being worthwhile.