The Dallas-Fort Worth area is the fourth largest metropolitan area in the U.S. with more than 7 million residents.
Tower Center Fellows Cullum Clark and Klaus Desmet wrote an essay for the Center for Opportunnity Urbanism looking at how and why Dallas has grown so much and so fast since 2000. They argue DFW is more accessible to middle-income individuals and families than other major cities.
Read their essay “The Dallas Way of Urban Development.”