10th Anniversary Post: Can Cities Change Their Luck?

The hit 90s TV series Friends was a harbinger of the "back to the city" years: Where are today's "friends" living? (6/13/2026) Ten years ago this month, I looked back on what had been the best ten years for American central cities in a long, long time. By 2015, the "back to the city" movement that had been growing for decades had burst into full flower. From 2005-2015, the U.S. population grew by…