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The Dallas-Fort Worth Metro Area recently crossed the 8,000,000 people threshold. It’s one of the fastest-growing areas of the U.S. What is fueling that growth?

Resources on this topic:

– https://www.oklahoman.com/story/news/2021/09/16/native-american-how-did-texas-push-out-native-americans-monument-sparks-look-past/8256336002/

– https://www.nps.gov/bith/learn/historyculture/oil-gas-industry.htm

– https://www.dallasnews.com/business/real-estate/2017/06/02/tall-tales-and-big-holes-are-part-of-dallas-skyscraper-lore/

– https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/how-u-s-oil-production-reached-an-all-time-high-in-2023

– https://www.dallasfed.org/research/heart/dallas

– https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1002/j.2325-8012.2008.tb00856.x?casa_token=8ZK9Hp7EdmQAAAAA%3Ag0Ex0X8M4p2k3IzmpA_efmPPswamr7xB5IC6o9SIDvRwJs5p_Ddr0ycRIrRTAx8sTxPIZYsRGV8R-g

– https://kinder.rice.edu/urbanedge/texas-cities-are-sprawling-ever-theyre-also-more-dense

– https://www.dallasnews.com/business/autos/2024/06/25/how-bad-is-traffic-in-dallas-one-study-says-its-only-getting-worse/

– https://www.dmagazine.com/urbanism-transportation/2018/06/how-dallas-paved-a-future-of-growth-inequality-and-crisis/

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