Sorry primitivists, but the city has been the default civilization structure prior to massive technological advances.
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Replying to @GolfNorman @MedMindset
while superior in aesthetics (at least based on what survived until today) and walkability (hard to dispute) they were infinitely worse in terms of disease and smell (and crime, afaik)
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crime itself did not become so much of an issue till cities reached a more massive scale and general morality decreased in the later period around the start of the industrial revolution. Electric light's dramatic effect on crime reduction is only a bandaid on a spiritual morass
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If anything we can see the IR's great "solutions to problems" were merely solutions to problems it already caused through the population booms in old cities
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There is a fantastic passage from Economy of Cities addressing this point directly (bonus: it uses phrase "riding the tiger") and I KNOW I've tweeted it before lemme try finding it
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