...it's playing out like a script. Loosely speaking: "pro-driving" side arguing against it, "pro-cities" side boosting it.
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...the problem is that large cities keep growing b/c people want/need to live there
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as Tokyo grew, cities in Tohoku stagnated and shrank--the Shinkansen helped turn the tide, but by converting those cities...
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...into "parts," in a sense, of Tokyo--not by provoking real local development. The same would happen here, take Troy:
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Troy is decaying because it doesn't have a productive economy of its own; NYC does have such an economy. So ppl move to NYC...
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...and will not prefer to live in Troy *unless living in Troy makes it easier to "live" in New York*
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