What will American cities look like in 20 years?

What will American cities look like in twenty years?

• What will Salt Lake City, Boise, ID, Las Vegas, New York City, Chicago, Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Seattle and their metro areas look like in 20 years? What will happen to the suburbs, existing single-family home neighborhoods, existing businesses, existing streets, freeways, etc.? Will they downsize like Detroit, Flint, and Youngstown? Or is downsizing restricted to those three cities? Will this downsizing even happen?

• Answer:

  1. True (Think melting ice/snow/slush). 2. False -- Floor it! 3. False -- do not take your eyes off the road. 4. False -- just hit them, at least for small objects such as cats and small children. 5. False -- see 4, no need to avoid small objects. 6. True 7. False -- just backing slowly into you bump . . . why there are *bumpers* 8. False -- the rear of your vehicle moves backward . . . not forward. 9. True. 10.False -- see 9, make your 3-point turn 11.True, but only if they catch you. 12.False -- U-turns are safer in intersections. 13.True