Planned "Satellite" Cities a Part of Development Strategy in South Asia
"In Guwahati, Assam, one of the world’s 100 fastest growing cities, officials are... turning to the strategy of stemming growth using satellite towns. Guwahati is the largest city in India’s northeast region, and has three satellite cities in the works... The strategy is part of a plan to curb the city’s transportation woes... By building satellite cities, officials hope to plan for its growing population. These cities will be connected via two bus rapid transit corridors."
'Bright Flight' and the decaying suburbs
Early signs of white, young, educated Americans returning to or staying in cities could remake the American urban/suburban map and place major strains on suburbs as territories of poverty but without access to centralized social services.
RAND explains,
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