<div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"><div class="im">> Only if the city can support them, I'd have thought--so presumably this goes<br>
> hand-in-hand with good-paying jobs that would signal the opportunity for<br>
> development. I don't know if raw population density itself is any measure..?<br>
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</div>Providence's population peaked in 1940 at over 253,000, 40% more than<br>
today's population of 178,000.</blockquote><div><br></div><div>Given the city's fiscal woes, can one imagine 75,000 more people living here without jobs and infrastructure to support them?</div><div><br></div><div>
Or have we just become gradually accustomed to sparser neighborhoods?</div><div><br></div><div>Emlyn</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div> </div></div><br>