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Oct 29, 2026 13 min

How do cities grow?

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To support City Beautiful and learn more about Brilliant, go to http://brilliant.org/CityBeautiful/ and sign up for free. The first 200 people that go to that link will get 20% off the annual Premium subscription.I'm on Patreon! Consider supporting this channel: https://www.patreon.com/citybeautifulThis video is based on:Muller, P.O. (2004) “Transportation and Urban Form: Stages in the Spatial Evolution of the American Metropolis”, in S. Hanson and G. Giuliano (eds) The Geography of Urban Transportation, 3rd Edition, New York: Guilford, pp. 59-84.How do cities grow? On the surface, this question has a pretty simple answer. Cities grow out. They start out small, and as more people move in, they get bigger. Sure, cities grow up, too, but here in the United States cities really grow out. But there’s more to it than that. Cities grow out faster now than they did 150 years ago. And they don’t always grow evenly out from the center. Why?Produced in sunny Sacramento, California.

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