# Are City Central Business Districts (CBD) Doomed?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-city-central-business-districts-cbd-doomed/664721>\
**Category:** Great Debates\
**Created:** [July 28, 2013, 4:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-city-central-business-districts-cbd-doomed/664721 "2013-07-28T04:01:21Z")\
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**Author:** ![Alessan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alessan/32/465_2.png) [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)\
**Post date:** [August 5, 2013, 12:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-city-central-business-districts-cbd-doomed/664721/41 "2013-08-05T12:24:27Z")

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> [@bashere](#):
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> _Aside to BrainGlutton_  
> We are very much seeing this in Toronto now, and for the social-justice/poverty activist crowd, it’s a real problem. The high order transit serves and increasingly wealthy group of people, and the working poor either need (expensive) automobiles or to suffer long commutes. The Three Cities study (I’ll dig up a link if you’re interested) talks about this.

Isn’t that essentially the European model - affluent center surrounded by poor suburbs?

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**Author:** ![bashere](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/779978/32.png) [@bashere](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bashere)\
**Post date:** [August 5, 2013, 12:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-city-central-business-districts-cbd-doomed/664721/42 "2013-08-05T12:44:50Z")

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> [@Alessan](#):
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> Isn’t that essentially the European model - affluent center surrounded by poor suburbs?

Quite possibly. Here, the surrounding poor suburbs tend to have high percentages of recent immigrants and visible minorities. I believe that’s also true at least Paris, and possibly other large European cities.

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